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The collapse of Twitter is a system breakdown. Mastodon and the fediverse represent something different: _system change_. From for-profit "Big Tech" to nonprofit, open source, community-owned public spaces. System change is always harder than you think. It always incurs short-term costs, with hoped for long-term benefits. The next few weeks will be really tough for the fediverse. Stick around, vibe with it, and you just might help us put a huge part of the web back in community hands.

John MacFarlane

A CLI tool that converts exported Medium posts (HTML) to Jekyll/Hugo compatible markdown with front matter

Real-world examples that show how to implement command-line interfaces in Python

Everything you create, plan, and schedule, perfectly organized your way.

Getting lost and learning to steer by a new compass

Oh, Evernote. What have you done?

As Elon Musk takes over Twitter, many are checking out this alternative. It could be the future of social media—if you can figure it out.

Evgeny Morozov's second book is a brilliant, confounding work of creative destruction.

Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University

Forget building and maintaining your own custom docs platform. With GitBook you get beautiful documentation for your users, and a branch-based Git workflow your team will love.

Apple refuses to give iPad users true free-form multitasking — and it’s running out of good reasons why.

A new update adds keyboard commands, making it easy for designers who love the keyboard to create in SwiftUI faster than ever before.

If you are on OSX and use Mail.app, but work a lot in the command line and would like a simple command to print a summary of unread emails…

Nearly five years in, the popular blogging service has helped birth some awesome websites. We take a look at the best.

Learn about this quick free way to see available keyboard shortcuts of all Mac apps using the CheatSheet app.

As 2022 draws to a close, we’re recapping yet another exciting year for the Forza franchise.

Wikipedia is the world’s free, collaborative encyclopedia—the largest collection of open knowledge in history. It contains over 58 million articles, written in more than 300 languages by volunteers around the world, which are viewed nearly 16 billion times every month.  Wikipedia’s content and popularity has grown substantially over the last two decades. Now, it is….

Beta testing of Aircraft & Avionics Update 1 (AAU1) continues with the release of a new build (1.30.12.0) earlier this week.

The purpose of this category is for Airport Editors to be able to create project threads for countries, regions or specific airports, and to share their editing work with the community.

Notes on personal libraries, collections and small indexes on the web

The Internet is allowing us to build a richer, more complex society but the way in which we Internet today is failing to support the governance systems that a more complex world requires. I take a look at why these issues are related, try to develop an intuition for a way forward, and point at the emerging field that is coming together to build that future.