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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.

Digging through history's couch cushions to find some of the rarest, oddest SUVs from the 1990s.

17 years ago, Olena started a journey that shaped her career. With a background in sales and technical support, she was a great fit for the emerging profession of product management. Today, she's achieved her dream and led many successful projects, including the release of the All-new Spark. Discover the challenges she faced, some of her productivity tips, and how she captures the world's beauty through her camera lenses.

Apple Music is expanding its curation efforts into live shows, introducing new concert discovery features on Apple Maps and Apple Music.

Add passkey support to your website or app with just a few lines of code. Give your customers the frictionless login experience they deserve.

Whether we think we live in a time of distinctive trial or distinctive ease or something in between, what do we do in the meantime?

Patreon is the best place to build community with your biggest fans, share exclusive work, and turn your passion into a lasting creative business.

There is no shortage of iPad stands. Search for one on Amazon, for instance, and you’ll be met with page after page of results. Most stands are unremarkable, with little that distinguishes one from another. Twelve South’s HoverBar Duo is different, though. The black aluminum and plastic stand has two articulating hinges with a clamp

表題の通り、本日・2023年5月19日（金）は、私・テルミナ™がTwitterを始めてから16周年となる、記念すべき日です。 　私はTwitterにアカウントを2つ持っておりますが、そのうちのメイン・アカウントである「@Telmina」の使用を開始したのが、2007年5月...

The sun moved lower in the sky, the shadows lengthened and darkened. The more dust I removed, the more these shadows grew. The children leaned over the rose border, their shadows merging with the shadows of the roses. The leaves turning, the children bright spots in a mash of bronze and sienna. 4…

A letter from Emma Garland, Digital Editor, introducing a bigger, bolder era for Huck online.

It's 2023 so of course it involves machine learning

What happened with GPT-4chan, aka 'the worst AI ever', and what can be learned from it

Here’s a first look at the upcoming app.