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A few weeks ago, I wrote about a new feature we added to the Jetpack plugin: a “Share to Mastodon” button. Nice, right? Mastodon is getting more and more popular, and it makes sense to …

Between 2019 and 2022, groups of Tesla employees privately shared via an internal messaging system sometimes highly invasive videos and images recorded by customers’ car cameras.

Users hate getting logged out, and designers make interfaces that reflect that.

How one button redefined our relationship to music.

I started simming as a pandemic hobby, and now I have a pilot’s license.

A special series from The Verge.

They’ll start rolling out in the “coming days.”

Back in January, I wrote about building an automation for my pal Lex that would generate a list of open meeting times for him to send to potential clients. Lex and I both use the Fantastical calend…

I just discovered that every copy of macOS ships with a hidden PDF of Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin whitepaper. But why?

When Twitter changed hands last November I switched to Mastodon; ever since I’ve enjoyed happier and more productive social networking. To enhance my happiness and productivity I began workin…

A product designer and creative director at Minimalissimo and 099

Neocities is the new Geocities. Create your own free home page, and do whatever you want with it.

It’s the inaugural week of the second annual edition of Automation April, and to celebrate the occasion, I’ve been working on something special: today, I’m introducing S-GPT, an advanced conversational shortcut for ChatGPT that bridges OpenAI’s assistant to native system features of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS. S-GPT (which stands for Shortcuts-GPT) is free to

Let’s see how well you know the logos of some of the most familiar platforms on the web.

Making room for in-flight productivity has long been a source of both consternation and electronic interference. But for some reason, it persists.

What’s the only thing better than having your own Gulfstream jet? Why, getting to claim millions in tax deductions for it. All you have to do is make a case you’re using it for business, which turns out to be surprisingly easy.

All iPhone and iPad users should be aware that installing the iOS 16.4 update for iPhone or iPadOS 16.4 update for iPad will enable the system settings for automatically installing and downloading …

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...

Links are the currency of information overload and distraction. There’s more media available than we could ever get to in a lifetime, and more things we might want to buy, places may want to visit, and other things to explore online than can be fit into a day. The same problem exists in our work

Personal computers, including smartphones, are really general purpose computers in that they and their software is built for, well, everyone. Their operating systems and most of their apps are desi…

Not only do Help windows work differently on Intel and Apple silicon Macs, but on the latter they can bring Stage Manager to a grinding halt.

Just over two years after my [snippet renaissance]( I’ve finally put some time into working together a hack to address one of my biggest wants — snippet variables. As someone who heavil…

Don’t you “incompatible cartridges” me, you horrible machine.

Creators ask Twitter executives to cut them checks for posting on Vine.

Last fall, nearly 20 of Vine's top 50 creators gathered in a conference room at 1600 Vine Street in Los Angeles to stage an intervention. They were there to meet with Karyn Spencer, Vine's Creative Development Lead, and other representatives from…

Charting the internet from the MySpace age to today's cesspool, McNeil investigates how the internet has changed--and how it changed us.

As promised by CEO Elon Musk, Twitter has open sourced a portion of the source code powering various parts of the social network.