Automation April is well underway: we’ve entered the second week of our month-long special event about automation on Apple platforms, and – in case you haven’t noticed – things are happening everywhere. We’ve published Shortcuts-focused articles on MacStories; interviewed developers of Shortcuts-compatible apps on AppStories; we’ve hosted a Town Hall Workshop on our Discord along

In its attempt to celebrate Chinese Canadian culture and destigmatize menstruation, the Pixar film manages to be both hyper-specific and alienating.

Plus, why his VC firm Andreessen Horowitz has spent $3 billion on web3 startups.

Which ones were actually good, and which just make you nostalgic?

Screenwriters Patrick J. Clifton and Beth Rigazio share secrets from their two DCOMs, Read It and Weep and Go Figure

I am incredibly excited to announce the relaunch of my Shortcuts Library in its expanded form, including over 600 custom shortcuts! What’s new The Shortcuts Library is updated from last year’s release, in which I consolidated my original larger library into 50+ shortcuts that each covered large areas of what’s possible with Shortcuts. With the […]

Twitter is acquiring mobile engagement platform OpenBack, whose team will join Twitter's Bluebird product team and focus on enhancing notifications on Twitter.

Every year we like to take a fresh look at the different shortcut options that are available to use with the Shortcuts app on iOS devices and Mac,...

A new way for writers on Substack to recommend each other and discover more great work

One of the delights of Shortcuts is the potential of simple individual actions. By themselves, they might not do much, but combined with simple actions from other apps, they create shortcuts that are greater than the sum of their parts. Two of my favorite recent examples are a pair of actions from the apps Play

I have been a blogger for a long time. Even before I started LearnDash, I wrote a blog while in college as I first became familiar with...

There are far too many things in my life that I don’t really need. I don’t need half the technology I have, nor most of the myriad of online services that I pay for. These include the hosting for my blog. I don’t need it really, but

"Tweet less, tweet more thoughtfully, and devote more time to reporting," says executive editor Dean Baquet. Is that a wise redirection of attention or a mistaken view of reporting circa 2022? (Both, a little.)

Painstaking new techniques for archiving social media posts could provide crucial evidence in future prosecutions.

Neocities is the new Geocities. Create your own free home page, and do whatever you want with it.

Learn about the benefits of following a show on Apple Podcasts and how to view follower engagement in Analytics on Apple Podcasts Connect.

Apple Podcasts introduces Follower metrics, MP3 support for subscription audio, and more

A bash script to check the HTTP status code of a bunch of URLs, for simple and portable uptime checking.

To what degree can we blame automation for deindustrialization and class decomposition?

Hours-long masturbation sessions are the norm. “I love going brain numb to porn,” says one scenester.

We have questions.

iFixit won over Google, Samsung and Valve. Who’s next?

Twitter will start displaying deleted embedded tweets again.

How helpful that actually is for the planet is another question.

Ford already has a few EVs — now Lincoln will try to catch up.

Activision Blizzard, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) today announced the appointment of Kristen Hines as its new Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer, e

Kristen Hines will take over as the company’s DE&I officer.