DuckDuckGo Launches DuckAssist
A new feature that generates natural language answers to search queries using Wikipedia.
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DuckDuckGo Releases Its Own ChatGPT Search Tool, DuckAssist
DuckDuckGo's new DuckAssist tool launched in beta Wednesday, bringing ChatGPT powered results to users of its apps and browser extensions. DuckAssist's answers are limited to sources like Wikipedia to avoid the AI insanity we've seen from similar tools.
'Horribly Unethical': Startup Experimented on Suicidal Teens on Social Media With Chatbot
How to Use ChatGPT with TextExpander
Want to level up your ChatGPT experience? Learn how to integrate TextExpander with ChatGPT to create and manage frequently used commands to get the information you need—every time!
Pull missing responses into Mastodon - blog.thms.uk
Mastodon does not always pull responses to posts from other instances through to your own instance. This means that if you read a post from another server, you may not see all replies. This post provides a GitHub Action that can help push remote replies into your home instance.
Ollie, Space Karen, and an API
James is joined by Iconfactory principal and designer, Gedeon Maheux to talk about the week that saw Twitter nuke API access for the 3rd party apps such as Twitterrific.
Weekly Musings 198 — Weekly Musings
Welcome to this edition of Weekly Musings, where each Wednesday I share some thoughts about what's caught my interest in the last seven d...
Howzit with named variables - BrettTerpstra.com
I had a sleepless morning and decided to flesh out a Howzit feature I’ve been meaning to get around to. In case you’ve missed it, Howzit is my “Markdown makefile” tool that allows you to keep track
How a single engineer brought down Twitter
“If you make a change right now, everything breaks.”
Journalists, You Should Be Looking for Undocumented APIs. Here’s How to Start – The Markup
A tutorial on how to build datasets from the hidden feeds powering almost every website on the internet
Apple News too corporate for you? Try this app
OptOut aims to be a daily news app "100% free from corporate media narratives."
SURF Program Manager Talks about Their Mastodon Pilot for Dutch Higher Education – The Fediverse Report
Women invented the Internet too
When we talk about technology, we often talk about the people behind some of the amazing inventions and technologies that we use everyday…
The History Of Chatbots – From ELIZA to ChatGPT
AI-chatbot software for complex requirements
Episode 166 – DaVinci Resolve with Shawn Carlson
DaVinci Resolve is an all in one professional level video editing app that includes color grading, color correction, visual effects, and audio post-production. DaVinci Resolve is available for macO…
Media | Blackmagic Design
Apple Frames 3.1: Extending Screenshot Automation with the New Apple Frames API
Today, I’m happy to introduce something I’ve been working on for the past couple of months: Apple Frames – my shortcut to put screenshots captured on Apple devices inside physical device frames – is getting a major upgrade to version 3.1 today. In addition to offering support for more devices that I missed in version
RZA Spent 10 Years Making This TV Show
The architect of the Wu-Tang Clan and his young cast discuss their new 10-part Hulu show, ‘Wu-Tang: An American Saga’
Tweetbot and Twitterrific updated with option to opt-out of subscription refund
When Twitter shut down third-party clients in January, it not only left out in the cold the users of those apps, but the developers too. Many of those apps were significant sources of revenue for t…
Exploring Mastodon
With the current uncertainty over Twitter, I'm starting to explore using Mastodon
Web Push for Web Apps on iOS and iPadOS
With iOS and iPadOS 16.4 beta 1 comes support for Web Push for Home Screen web apps, Badging API, Manifest ID, and more.
What’s new in Shortcuts
Learn about the new features in Shortcuts for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS.
Get complete step-by-step instructions and information on all the features in Shortcuts:
Shortcuts User Guide
Erase browser history: can AI reset the browser battle?
Twenty-five years ago, Mozilla rose from the open source ashes of Netscape. Here’s how it plans to survive 25 more years.
Resize Video to Target Size: Routinehub's shortcut to re-encode video files on MacOS with ffmpeg
Resize Video to Target Size is a shortcut available on Routinehub that allows you to re-encode video files to a specific size using ffmpeg on MacOS.
iOS and iPadOS 16.4 Betas Are Out with New Emoji, Loads of Safari Updates, Apple Podcasts Enhancements, Shortcuts Actions, and More
Apple has released betas of iOS and iPadOS 16.4 with new features and its version of new emoji approved by the Unicode Consortium last summer. Some of the biggest changes coming to iOS and iPadOS later this spring will be to Safari. Many of the biggest user-facing features relate to web apps. Apple has supported
10 years of Documents: From a document reader to a super app for file action
Documents has been at your service for 10 years. Year on year, we have introduced new capabilities to transform our users lives, from quick sharing and smart suggestions for improved workflows, to VPN and PDF capabilities.
How were approaching AI-generated writing on Medium
Transparency, disclosure, and publication-level guidelines
How to extract Mastodon instance & handle data using Shortcuts
Working with links in the fediverse can be tricky – here's how to use Shortcuts' Get Components of URL action to quickly isolate any instance or account handle you come across on Mastodon.
Big Play | John Semley
Fantasy football conjures not the sporting life of the jock, but the mental life of his boss.
The Fourth Person | Adam Cavanaugh
Soon I will die in the course of performing my duties. Perhaps I am dead already.