Links
Digg, 20 years later
David Pierce: How Digg helped invent the social internet
In its early days, Digg was something like the homepage of
Links
Links
Passkeys get a bit closer to becoming portable
Lori Glavin: FIDO Alliance Publishes New Specifications to Promote User Choice and Enhanced UX for Passkeys
The FIDO Alliance has
Links
Productivity apps won’t do your work for you, but they can still help
Casey Newton many weeks ago: Three apps that made me more productive this year
A year ago this week, I
Links
Remember, the computers don’t think
Kyle Orland for ArsTechnica: Apple study exposes deep cracks in LLMs’ “reasoning” capabilities
The results of this new GSM-Symbolic paper
Links
How to set up author tags on Mastodon
Mastodon recently added the ability to natively add author labels to links on Mastodon. Basically, when a link is posted,
Links
You never know what’s going to hit
Lee Peterson: Sometimes It Takes Just One Random Post to Grow Your Blog
This was completely random and it shows
Links
X does that thing again, but it’s totally chill this time
Elizabeth Lopatto writing for The Verge: X blocks links to hacked JD Vance dossier
X is preventing users from posting
Links
The core thing that makes WordPress, WordPress isn’t what you think
This might be the longest quote ever on Birchtree, but stick with me here. This is Matt Mullenwerg, CEO of
Links
I appreciate box office data is just out there for everyone
Nicole Sperling for the New York Times: Apple Rethinks Its Movie Strategy After a String of Misses
Apple executives in
Links
The iPad wasn’t supposed to have this until it did
I was researching for my last article when I stumbled upon this post from John Gruber in 2011 where he
Links
Apple adds a new way for merchants to do business
Apple on their developer site today: Set Up Win-Back Offers
If your app offers auto-renewable subscriptions, you have the option
Links
Astro Bot is an inspiration
Zack Zwiezen: It's Really Nice That Astro Bot Just Has One Release Date
Astro Bot is a really
Links
Imagine if you learned 90% of your revenue came from Russian state media 😬
Press release from the US Justice Department: Two RT Employees Indicted for Covertly Funding and Directing U.S. Company That
Links
The more optimistic clean energy story
David Wallace-Wells in an op-ed for the New York Times: What Will We Do With Our Free Power?
In 2023,
Links
PayPal brings their debit card to Apple Wallet
PayPal Newsroom: Introducing PayPal Everywhere
customers can now add their PayPal Debit Card to Apple Wallet in just a few
Links
Reeder might be my favorite app in the world, and it kinda got an update
Reeder is out today and Devon Dundee has a great overview over on MacStories. I wanted to call out a
Links
I’ve heard this story before
Andy Bell: Just Use Fucking Paper, Man
I’ve given up this week and gone back to paper and a
Links
I found a new fediverse analogy I love
David Imel explaining the fediverse on the latest Waveform video:
Just like the United States is a federation, right? Like