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Discord usernames are changing to remove four-digit discriminators. Display Names are being added so how you appear to other users stays the same. Read on for more info.

Apps introduce powerful features designed for iPad to deliver the ultimate mobile studio for video and music creators.

How to create an iOS Scriptable widget that displays the bird visitors in your backyard.

I’ve stayed on the sidelines of much of the LLM debate, but I’m willing to stake out my skepticism on this “world changing” technology. As I think back over the arch of my online life, I see these foundational models as the latest in a series of events where amazing technology was going to change the world. But each time individual value is diluted for corporate money grabs. Going way back in time, my first real formative experience on the internet was Geocities. When a friend showed me that I could write an HTML file and make it show up on the internet I was hooked. It was magic to me that I could make something the whole world could see. I quickly fell down the rabbit hole of how to make these sites.

iPadOS 17 will reportedly include a handful of notable changes for iPad users. Rumors suggest the update will bring enhancements...

Visual artist Marc Horowitz discusses the value of multitasking, finding clarity through sobriety, and why it's beneficial to stop thinking of your creative practice as a competition.

Imagining the possibilities with the return of a native landscape orientation to the iPhone.

“Accelerated Mobile Pages” succeeded in speeding up publishers’ mistrust of the search giant.

FSCI's statement on banning of Free Software apps like Element and Briar

Here’s how, in seven steps, I built my first browser extension with GitHub Copilot—and my three major takeaways about learning and pair programming in the age of AI.

Call it ‘queerbaiting’ if you must, but nightlife needs to face up to the problem.

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!