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Twelve years ago these days, in early July 2010, I put aside print books and began reading only ebooks. The transition to digital allowed...

Read to the end for a conversation with The Daily Beast's Allegra Frank

Cloud DJing will soon be the industry standard. But is this new technological development leading artists towards a paradise of convenience—or a data-hungry dystopia?

Navigating the modern internet as a creative

Adds small button next to shortened URLs (t.co/bit.ly/goo.gl) on Twitter and other sites that will replace the shortened URLs with their real locations and vice-versa. Useful for when you don't want to blindly click links.

The Big Tech platforms drive us towards feelings of shame and profit off of that spiral of shame, explains Cathy O'Neil

We break down the buzz between streaming services by Apple, Spotify, Tidal and more.

P2P and piracy-fuelled software are sailing the unexplored seas of Web3 – but will they bring about genuine change this time around?

I’ve been blogging since 1999, first at weblog.searls.com, and since 2007 here. I also plan to continue blogging here* for the rest of my life. But it’s clear now that newsletters are w…

Writer Clare Sestanovich discusses distrusting triumph, writing during stolen hours, and the wisdom in abandoning a project.

For anyone who follows me on this blog or anywhere else, you are probably familiar with the fact that I enjoy automating things. Having my devices do things for me. This has numerous benefits including saving me time and effort in the future, reducing the opportunity for human error, teaching me new skills, etc. But the fact is, when you start building up a large toolbox of automations it can be hard to keep track of the details. Some automations lend themselves to inline documentation, but what if you want to do something more? In this post I am going to describe some of my set up around documenting automations using two tools on the Mac - Hook and Obsidian.

What comes next.

What comes next.

The Goggles feature remixes Brave’s search ranking system.

Projects that seek to create new communities of marginalized people to draw them in to risky speculative markets rife with scams and fraud are demonstrating

There are new betas, new chargers and new versions of iWork apps out this week. Beyond covering those items, the guys talk about WeatherKit and calculate updated Hackett Numbers.

In discussing the network topology of social networks — whether centralized like Facebook or federated like ActivityPub — I think the ult...

The memory of learning to type on a keyboard is fuzzy. I don't even recall how it feels not to use a keyboard. It shows my age more than...

Asking for pronouns has become a social standard. Who is it serving?

Despite evidence that says otherwise

One of the cornerstone features coming to macOS Ventura this fall is Stage Manager, which lets you create sets of multiple apps, decluttering your desktop without a lot of fiddling. In my limited use so far, I’m optimistic about Stage Manager’s future as a way to manage apps, but it’s not for everyone, which is

Warning: publishing business book neepery ahead, as I try to figure out a problem. It includes a bunch of tedious ground-laying. I also round many prices to the nearest dollar. I am specifically ta…