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Luckily, I don’t have to use this kind of title often. But when I do, there’s a good reason: this year’s beta release cycle for all of Apple’s operating systems has been a mess. The months since WWDC in June have been a terrible experience for both customers and developers alike and the literal center […]

Essay on the benefits of speedy software, and how it affects user perception of engineering quality and overall usability

The gripping inside story of YouTube, the company that upended media, culture, industry, and democracy—by a leading tech journalist Across the world, people watch more than a billion hours of video...

It’s all about the iPhone.

In 2010, the original iA Writer introduced focused writing with Markdown. Twelve years later, iA Writer opens the doors to a simple and friendly knowledge management system with wikilinks.

A piece of writing aiming to be academic must be 'clear, concise, focused, structured and backed up by evidence'. We believe that Markdown writing tools make it easier to focus on content and thus support the main aim of academic writing. iA Writer has a couple of tricks up its sleeves that other apps do not.

Ronn is a fantastic, simple tool that leverages the Markdown you use every day to create man pages for your command-line software.

Converting a man page to markdown is a three step process: installing a tool that can convert the source of a man page to markdown finding the location of the man page source doing the actual conve…

Progressives aren’t the only ones who need free-speech protections.

What comes next.

Is this wave of internet idealists any different from the last?

We’re just about to reach 40 million annotations! Here’s to all the annotators out there: We share this milestone with each of you. Read all about it — and find out what else we've been up to lately.

Evan Spiegel isn’t going down without a fight.

The new GitHub Issues - September 1st update

The academic search engine’s policy on name changes is out of step with other search tools and publishers.

How to automatically connect via cellular when there's no Wi-Fi.

As promised, I’ve updated Read2Text as a standalone binary using the Swift versions of Readability and HTML2Text. In the process I made it a whole new tool called Gather . You may recall that name

Gather is constantly improving at this point, and a lot of its rough edges have already been polished. I’m loving all the feedback I’m getting, both for fixing bugs and for adding new features. It’s

The turmoil associated with Elon Musk’s bid to purchase the company was a breaking point.

If electric cars are better - why ban gas powered cars?

Unless you have skipped a lot of school, or work, or both – or you live in the USA – you have probably used an A4 sheet of paper before now. Have you ever wondered …

The video platform is finally dedicating real resources to growing its podcast offerings.

New Jersey residents want to protect their community's rural character from a million-square-foot warehouse. But the local democratic process turns out to be complicated and – for some – suspiciously lacking in transparency.

Auto companies are designing ways to build a car’s fuel cells into its frame, making electric rides cheaper, roomier, and able to hit ranges of 620 miles.

Some people have ditched dating apps—and opted to bare their souls via a public, view-only link instead.

The partnership has not issued a new fact check since 2020. It only fact checked Schmitt once and found the claim it was looking into to be “mostly true.”

The purpose of the Edit Tweet feature is to "give people a short period of time to fix things like typos, add missed tags, and more" on Twitter

Twitter announced today that it has begun testing “Notes,” a way to write and publish long-form content on the social media platform. The official announcement comes a day after TechCrunch reported that the feature would be launching soon. A small group of writers in the United States, …

"For me, fundamentally, the mistake was thinking that journalism was where Medium was going to shine."