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Are you using Git a lot from the command line? Isn’t it annoying that you have to open a browser and click your way to the GitHub, GitLab or Azure DevOps repo website to create a pull request or do something else that can’t be done in your shell?To solve that problem, I have a […]

Musician Ryuichi Sakamoto discusses the factors that influenced the making of his first new record in nearly a decade, how your creative inclinations change over time, and the ways in which geography can influence what you make.

Investigative reporting about corporate malfeasance and government wrongdoing, analysis of national and world affairs, and cultural criticism that matters.

Workers say now is the time to do the impossible.

“If we turn this career into a gig, into a hobby, the people who are going to be able to do it are the people who have generational wealth and privilege and are just doing this for fun.”

From iPhones to John Deere equipment, corporations shouldn’t be holding needed repairs hostage.

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Inexpensive software and other tools, coupled with ubiquitous Internet access, have made it easier than ever for creative people to reach a large audience. Whether you are a writer, a podcaster, a video producer, a software developer, or a maker of some other description, distribution has been reduced to a mere implementation detail. Yet, with

What a load of Otter Nonsense

Digital media companies are caught in the "crap trap," mass-producing trashy clickbait so they can claim huge audiences and often higher valuations. Here is how they fell into this lethal trap: They got into the content game to produce news or info they might be proud of, believing they could ...

How does a multimillion-dollar artifact end up as scrap? The answer involves, among other things, famed televangelist Oral Roberts.

Science Vs is getting wider distribution. More Gimlet shows may follow suit.

More info with less friction, please.

Editing and formatting text on the web comprises of an interesting sub-field of web development. The web allows for different ways to turn text into HTML markup. First I'll outline some of the background of interactive text formatting on the web from my perspective, and then go into some configuration details of MediaWiki's Visual Editor that I found interesting.

The fediverse loves Eurovision, a chaos era for social networks, Calckey news, and more!

NB: This is the second in a series of posts where I will share my notes on my readings of the minutes of the Social Web Working Group. The first one is here. Future posts to come. As I mentioned several months ago, my book about Mastodon and the rest of the fediverse can’t be complete without a deep understanding of ActivityPub, the protocol that powers the fediverse. ActivityPub itself is getting a bit of love in the press (see this Verge article for an example). And to understand ActivityPub, we have to look at the group that created it, the W3C’s Social Web Working Group, or SocialWG for short. They posted their meeting minutes on the Web and I have read all of them. In the previous post on the SocialWG minutes, I focused on the very early years, 2014 to 2015, finding that the period was dominated by organizational issues – how to meet, how to make decisions, and so on. In this section, I will cover the development of ActivityStreams 2.0, the first goal of the SocialWG charter.

I'd say it already did.

Optical character recognition, vast databases and algorithms were all used to investigate the 2.6 terabytes of data in the Panama Papers

Read Will Pritchard’s review of the album.

Sloth poop? Really?

(me and my mom, 1981) My mom’s current (modest) salary, as a Junior College professor, is the most she’s made...

Between May 15–June 15, we celebrated our eighth Discord birthday! Enjoy free Activities, new merch, special Nitro perks, and more.

Apple previews new cognition, vision, and hearing features.

Read Matthew Blackwell’s review of the album.

April's roundup of five tape labels to get obsessed with right now.

Infinite Flight is getting a new look and an exciting new feature we're calling Missions! Here's what's in store.