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Twitter has steadily been adding features to Spaces.

2004 I built my first computer. In a classroom. With disassembled parts from other computers. I discovered alt-tab to validate my answer...

A collection of hidden Mac gems that deserve your attention.You have probably heard of many of these apps, but some are absolute hidden gems that deserve more attention than they get. So take a look through the list, and I guarantee at least one of these apps you’ll

Ruthless as asking a parent to disclose which child they love most, we pressed a dozen typeface designers around the globe to name their favorite fonts released over the past year. What emerged was an energetic mix: entirely modern scripts that hark back to the days of calligraphy, brush lettering,

About three years ago, I wrote a piece on how to get system fonts in CSS. The San Francisco fonts had just been released and getting them onto a web page wasn’t obvious or easy. A recent tweet reminded me that I needed to update this information. In my original post, I proposed the idea […]

Last week, one of my colleagues informed me that the word “tweet” was now included in the Oxford English Dictionary (see “Quiet announcement” at the end of the page.) The noun and verb tweet (in the social-networking sense) has just been added to the OED. This breaks at least one OED rule, namely that a […]

Whether you’re a developer who’s working on mobile apps, or just someone enjoying the millions of apps available for your phone, today is a very special day. It’s the ten year anniversary of the original iPhone SDK. I don’t think it’s an understatement to say that this release changed a lot of people’s lives. I […]

Need help on what movies on Netflix to watch? We’ve got you covered. Here are the best movies on Netflix that are good and worth watching this January 2022.

Alfred users can now access their library of shortcuts on the Mac, thanks to an official Alfred workflow by Vítor Galvão. The workflow allows users to access individual shortcuts and folders of shortcuts, as well as pass text and files to shortcuts for processing. It’s a nice approach that uses Alfred’s existing workflow system to

Apple’s services helped deliver innovative apps, powerful content, and experiences that enrich users’ lives in more ways than ever before.

Scott Forstall, head of Apple's mobile software division, is a lot like his mentor Steve Jobs: brilliant, a tenacious infighter and arguably just the taskmaster the company needs.

Podcast Noter AppleScript. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Tell me how the panelist caused you extra work. Last year I decided I was spending too much time doing jobs because I could do them, not because they were an essential part of my job. (My friend My…

Sheryl Crow Hall, inside of Jeanne and Rex Sinquefield Music Center, is named for Crow’s support of the building’s fundraising.

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The music industry is shifting up a gear and is now taking action against a German hosting provider. Three big labels are suing the provider Uberspace for hosting the website of the open source project youtube-dl. With the software, which is available on the code sharing platform Github, YouTube videos and music files can be… Continue reading Music industry is...

Dive into the thriving, diverse landscape of 2021’s finest iOS music players.

An action-packed, if flawed, conclusion sets up Kate for big things in the future

As Letterboxd turns ten we are pleased to unveil Journal, our new online magazine.

Well hello, reporters! It’s that time of year again. RevEye My most popular post on Substack this year (kinda surprisingly to me) was also the most recent, RevEye! RevEye helps you avoid making an oopsie by checking if images have already been published online. This helps prevent you from b

Sometimes a phrase someone uses can strike at the core of your own identity. It touches on a piece of yourself that you couldn't articula...

Tugging on the thread of digital bricolage brought me to a wonderful paper by Seymour Papert & Sherry Turkle called "Epistemological Plur...

Space privatization is a recipe for corporate totalitarianism. Humanity would be wise to imagine a different future.