Changes coming to Bookmarks in next WordLand release. I cut it back to work exactly like bookmarks in Drummer. I have to do a bit more work before it's ready to release, probably tomorrow.
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How to Catch a North Korean Fake Worker
theregister.com/2025/04/29/north_korea_worker_interview_questions/
Iain Thomson, for The Register:
According to Adam Meyers, CrowdStrike’s senior veep in the counter
adversary division, North Korean infiltrators are bagging roles
worldwide throughout the year. Thousands are said to have
infiltrated the Fortune 500.
They’re masking IPs,...
Dave in the Gilded Age
I asked ChatGPT to "Dress me like guilded age captain of industry in front of his mansion on the Hudson River."
Gilded Age Dave.The Trump Administration Signal Scandal, Somehow, Gets Worse
Micah Lee, in a spectacularly detailed post:
On Thursday, 404 Media reported that in the Reuters
photo showing former National Security Advisor and war
criminal Mike Waltz checking his Signal messages under the
table, he was actually using an obscure modified Signal app...
New feature: How to handle an empty site list.
The Knicks are unbelievable. It feels like 2015, when the Mets would be down 9-0 in the seventh, and you'd tune in to see how they would win. At the very end of the Knicks game tonight, when the Celtics were up by 1, I thought how would this feel if the Knicks came back so f...
Eddy Cue, on the Stand in U.S. v. Google Trial, Says Apple Is Eying a Move to AI in Safari
Bloomberg:
Apple Inc. is “actively looking at” revamping the Safari web
browser on its devices to focus on AI-powered search engines, a
seismic shift for the industry hastened by the potential end of a
longtime partnership with Google.
Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice pres...
There's a new dialog in WordLand that confirms the first time you publish a post, and offers to open it in the web browser.
I want the EV's they're getting in China. Because we've got these stupid trade barriers we can't get the latest tech. Imagine in say 1984 you were a developer outside the US and you couldn't get a Mac. Then, perhaps Trump's tariff might have a slight chance of working. Now we're on the outside looking in.
Aftermath
Aftermath:
Welcome to Aftermath, a worker-owned, reader-supported news site
covering video games, the internet, and the cultures that
surround them.
You might remember most of us from Kotaku, where we broke news,
covered events, and brought you hard-hitting investigatio...
Polygon Gutted by Large-Scale Layoffs After Sale to Sweatshop Aggregator Valnet
Kyle Orland, reporting for Ars Technica last week:
Vox Media has sold video game specialist website Polygon to
Internet brand aggregator Valnet, the publisher of
content-churning sites including Game Rant, OpenCritic, Android
Police, and Comic Book Resources. The move co...
Amazon, Finally, Now Has a ‘Get Book’ Button in Its iOS Kindle App
theverge.com/news/661719/amazon-app-ios-apple-iphone-ipad-kindle-buy-books
Andrew Liszewski, The Verge:
Contrary to prior limitations, there is now a prominent orange
“Get book” button on Kindle app’s book listings. [...]
Before today’s updates, buying books wasn’t a feature you’d find
in the Kindle mobile app following app store rule changes ...
Florida Republican Congresswoman Kat Cammack Introduces ‘App Store Freedom Act’ to Mandate Third-Party App Stores on iOS and Android
theverge.com/news/662180/app-store-freedom-act-apple-third-party-app-stores
Emma Roth, reporting for The Verge:
Representative Kat Cammack (R-FL) introduced a bill Tuesday that
would require “large app store operators” like Apple to let users
install third-party app stores and set them as their default. The
bill, called the App Store Freedom Act...
When I did the rewrite of the nightly mail app, I didn't convert the app that builds the nightly RSS feed of the mail page. Wasn't sure if anyone was using it. I heard from a reader who missed it, so I got it running, knock wood, Murphy-willing.
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Tim Sweeney Talks to Peter Kafka, Still Thinks Fortnite Is Coming Back to iOS This Week
businessinsider.com/tim-sweeeney-epic-games-apple-app-store-interview-peter-kafka-2025-05
About 16 minutes into the podcast (the whole thing is a great succinct interview):
Kafka: You said Fortnite is going to come back to iOS. You
guys were kicked off the platform in 2020 for violating Apple’s
rules. There’s nothing in the judge’s ruling that says Apple has
...
ChatGPT as proofer? Not here
Manton says he runs his posts through ChatGPT before publishing.
I do it the other way, I use it for background info on the things I'm writing about as I write, more and more. I used to use Wikipedia that way. I would love to include links to some of my conversations, but I find their shared links are unreliable, I keep hearing from people who couldn't read them.
Here's an experiment, two such backgrounders I had Claude.ai write for me for a pice I was writing (not published).
Claude.ai on the future of Chrome re antitrust case Google lost.
Claude.ai on claims Bluesky makes about being billionaire-proof.
I wonder if people can read those.
Notes for WordLand users
Three questions came up in overnight posts re WordLand.
Where did the Bookmarks menu go? It's mentioned in the docs under Feature List, but the feature doesn't appear to be in the product. It is there, you just have to go to the Settings page to turn it on. It's in the Syst...
A forty minute tech talk might not fix a very specific code problem at work, but it might leave you inspired to fix everything else
Last week, I spent a few days in Leeds attending All Day Hey again, a brilliant conference for developers, designers and tech leads. This conference is part of my holy-grail of community-led conferences that I purchase tickets for regardless of the schedule. This is because ...