The collapse of Twitter last year got me thinking about closed platforms and reducing the hold that privately-owned silos have over the Internet.

An open-source, white-label alternative to Duolingo.

ChatGPT is a bullshit generator. To understand AI, we should think harder about bullshit

svg-icon: An ultimate SVG icons collection DONE RIGHT.

One of my portfolio companies raised a round a few months ago and I left their board. So, for the first time in a long time, I am not on any boards of directors. Since I no longer have anyone speci…

Micro productivity apps in your URL bar. Contribute to goldsmith/smartmarks development by creating an account on GitHub.

A vision for the "small web", small software, and small architectures.

There are a lot of small websites on the Internet: Interesting websites, beautiful websites, unique websites. Unfortunately they are incredibly hard to find. You cannot find them on Google or Reddit, and while you can stumble onto them with my search engine, it is not in a very directed fashion. It is an unfortunate state of affairs. Even if you do not particularly care for becoming the next big thing, it’s still discouraging to put work into a website and get next to no traffic beyond the usual bots.

D-Lib Magazine

Macintosh computers, Unix system administration, web development, and general text wrangling.

Retrofy your computer with this pixel perfect icon and dynamic wallpaper set featuring 187 Mac OS '84 inspired retro icons.

Hi. My name is Cabel. And I’ve probably got the neatest job in the whole world. I wear many hats. But here on my personal blog, I get to write about the things I really care about, just for y…

This is my digital garden.

Let me introduce you to WordStar 4.0, a popular word processor from the early 80s. WordStar 4.0 As old as it seems, George R.R. Martin used it to write “A Song of Ice and Fire”. Why would someone use such an old piece of software to write over 5,000 pages? I love how he puts it: It does everything I want a word processing program to do and it doesn't do anything else.

Calendars cover the entire spectrum of time. Past, present and future. They are the closest thing we have to a time machine. Calendars allow us to travel forward in time and see the future. More importantly, they allow us to change the future.

Indie Map is a public IndieWeb social graph and dataset.

Major labels got you art direction. Indie rappers got Pen & Pixel to photoshop them on to a pile of gold holding a Glock.

The biological trick that allows a female mandarin duck to become a male.

r/FrutigerAero: Tech aesthetic popularized from 2004-2013; characterized by skeuomorphism, glossy design, "humanism", tertiary color palettes …

Everyone wants to be like Steve Jobs and his powerhouse company. It’s not as easy as it looks.

Siri and Apple's use of AI has been severely held back by caution and organizational dysfunction, according to over three dozen former Apple...

Can consumers at Costco really have their free sample and eat it too?

A history of our metaphorical understanding of the web

Science, programming, books, and other interesting stuff

Code and documentation, created and maintained equally. developers love it, as it’s effective and takes the pain out of documentation.

At Nozbe among all the apps we use to run our company, we also take advantage of Github’s implementation of Git - the version control system - because when many people work on code, things can quickly fall through the cracks if you’re not using a version control system.

Digitized Materials (Rare Book and Special Collections Reading Room, Rare Book & Special Collections Division, Library of Congress).