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The avatar library you've always been looking for. Create avatars for your profiles, designs, websites or apps. Piece by piece or based on a seed.

Create your own free avatar online and share it with your friends!

Opt in vs. Opt out email and marketing preferences - which method should you choose for your web form?

Explore the tech predictions from 1999 and how they shaped today’s technology, from smart gadgets to artificial intelligence advancements.

Willing to let your utility borrow your thermostat? It could help save billions of dollars in infrastructure costs while lowering your power bill.

Elon Musk's internet satellites have been a game changer for people in rural areas, but scientists are alarmed that plans to launch thousands more will be perilous for our skies.

CNET News.com takes a look back at 1999 and how the Net and technology have changed.

In Hollywood, the future can seem pretty bright. Let's talk about a few visions of the future and what we were promised versus what we got.

We need to reclaim the power the web once gave us.

A brief history of the Internet and some thoughts on how we might be able to regain that which was stolen from us by trickery and guile.

The web we were promised about connection through ideas and shared passion.

This isn't the internet that Tim Berners-Lee envisioned when he laid the groundwork for the World Wide Web 30 years ago today. Rather than the free and open online utopia he envisioned, "the web has evolved into an engine of inequity and division," he wrote in 2018, "swayed by powerful forces who use it for their own agendas." And, by God, he's going to fix it -- even if he has to break the entire system to do so.

The World Wide Web hasn’t felt this supportive since it was invented. Why did it take a pandemic?

The Acceptable Ads Standard is evolving to allow small, static in-content ads. Find out more in this blog about the changes and research behind it.

Eric Migicovsky is busy reviving the Pebble smartwatch first.

I was sending an email when a little magic wand popped up that said “Polish” and I thought that was weird because why would I want to translate my email into Polish? I tried to click on…

The Internet was the greatest trick humanity ever pulled on itself

Open source software projects are frequently enmeshed with the interests of corporations. We should update mental models of who works on open source accordingly, and build or modify power structures to be more resilient to corporate capture.

Observability is for everyone, but when people use different definitions for related terms, it seems more complex than it really is.

Check the map, and then go have a look for yourself.

In 1956, IBM offered its RAMAC 105 digital storage system. It was the size of two refrigerators and cost about $1.4M in 2014 dollars. It held... #buckminsterfuller #ephemeralization #industrialdesign

The Framework help is full of undocumentation.  Consider the entry for the IBindingList.AddIndex method:

Over the past two years Independent Federated Trust and Safety (IFTAS) has provided crucial support to independent, decentralised social media moderators, administrators, and community managers. Ou…

Hardest thing I've had to write in quite some time: https://about.iftas.org/2025/02/06/funding-challenges-and-the-future-of-our-work/ tl;dr - we are running out of money and will not be able to pay our bills in April. As such, unless we can secure funding by end of February, we will be closing down some services and re-examining our scope of activities.

Unified timeline apps, like Tapestry and the new Reeder, just don't give me the experience and functionality I want to browse my collective feeds.

I talk about the lack of innovation in the Apple ecosystem and how Tuist is reimagining developer experiences.

The Silent Crisis Every Junior Developer Faces — And Why Fixing It Could Save Our Industry

You wouldn't have thought Siri could go into decline, but it has.

Implement message queuing with MassTransit and RabbitMQ in .NET Core. Practical examples of SSL setup, configuration, filters, and circuit breaker pattern.