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Molly White recently wrote about how publications are moving to publishing newsletters because their search traffic is dwindling. One downside to us readers is that managing a bunch of newsletter subscriptions creates…
I love my favorite toots page which shows toots that I favorited on Mastodon recently. It is a nice showcase of people doing awesome things and sharing them on Mastodon. But it…
Switcheroo, the default browser that I use everyday, just had a new release over the weekend thanks to Zhenyi Tan. The 1.2.0 update includes a new profile picker UI (seen below) and…
Florian Ziegler: I tried to do these monthly posts for a while because I like to read them when others post them. But I always forget to write down things I’ve been…
Zhenyi Tan: Technotes is a Safari extension that adds user-contributed notes to the Apple documentation website. The notes can include sample code, warnings about common pitfalls, and other useful stuff. The Safari…
I'm using the Simply Static WordPress plugin to generate the files for two of my websites. It is a nice plugin with some good features and I gladly pay for it. One…
Manuel Moreale, who is purposefully taking in far less information during the month of June, mentions this about the silent periods that he used to fill in with podcasts: First couple of…
Craig Mod, writing for Literary Hub: When I’m not talking, just walking (which is most of the time), I try to cultivate the most bored state of mind imaginable. A total void…
Chris Glass: I’d love to see the next version of macOS introduce some basic gestural controls that can be used when a camera is present. I’m talking easy stuff like scrolling, zooming,…
V.H. Belvadi: What we need is a notes app that looks and behaves like a rich text editor but saves in Markdown. And by this I do not mean the clunky ‘source editor…
I’m going to keep this simple so that I actually end up publishing this prior to WWDC. Here is my list of wishes for this year across Apple’s operating systems. Add a…
Jeremy Keith, in his interview on Manuel Moreale’s People & Blogs series: I never write down those things bouncing around in my head. I know I probably should. But then if I’m…
Andy Adams: For some reason, years ago, we all agreed to spend most of our online time looking at photography on a canvas smaller than a cocktail napkin. It’s awful when you…
My thanks to Steve Burge for inviting me on to The PublishPress Podcast. In this episode we chat about NerdPress, blogging, Hubbub, Hubbub's Save This feature, social media, and the importance for…
Unsure of what vibe coding is? See Simon Willison's explanation of a term recently coined by Andrej Karpathy on X. It is a buzzword that is lighting the world in fire it…
A few times over the last several decades I've unsubscribed from every social media account, RSS feed, newsletter, YouTube channel, etc. and started with a clean slate. My goal was, as I…
The sun has returned! I mean, it has always been there. Relatively speaking in the same place it was over the last few months. But the Earth's tilt is such that as…
Gus Mueller argues that Apple needs to support developers running LLMs locally on the Mac, rather than simply try to catch up on their own. There isn't one specific quote that I…
It has been a long, cold, mostly icy winter. I'm not sure if age makes this feeling more acute, but the data seem to show that this winter has been colder than…
I have my reservations about whether or not blogs (specifically my blog) should federate content via ActivityPub. Isn't RSS enough?
It used to be, that I was the first person in line to download new software. I'd sign up for beta access, email developers for early looks at what they were working…
As you all know, I'm a big fan of a the Pomodoro Technique. Recently, while catching up on my backlog of Jack Cheng's excellent Sunday series, I came across a snippet in…
(The following is a very quick mind dump. Unedited. Raw.) I prefer black and white over color film for most of my photographic work. I do shoot color film. I mostly like…
Naz Hamid writes about how we should all keep social networks in their place; as methods of distribution rather than longterm means of connection or publication. He also contrasts that to how…
Cedric Raguenaud argues that.. "When we label our photographic pursuits as “work,” we unconsciously impose constraints and expectations that belong in the professional world. Suddenly, we feel pressured to maintain visibility, chase…
My default web browser is set to Switcheroo – a custom-made macOS app by Zhenyi Tan (with some feedback and guidance from me). Whenever I click on a link a modal of…
Chris Armstrong, advocating for a digital garden over a blog structure: A blog structure places the highest emphasis on ‘what’s new’… but what’s new has had the least scrutiny and little authority….
This morning I checked in on Pixelfed, the ActivityPub-powered Instagram alternative. I had created a profile on an instance in 2021 and I check in from time-to-time to see how it is…
Every person and organization has to make their own decisions about which social platforms they will have an account on, publish their content to, engage with, and support (with use or contributions…
Update (October 2026): I now use Rinku, my free, open source to-do app for links. It carries forward the approach behind Nilai and Unmark, with a local Markdown library. Update October 2025:…