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Major new version of Inkwell for Mac today. Now you can start a new blog post directly in the app, or use the built-in new post window to quote a post you’re reading. Here’s a quick screenshot.

Over the last few days, I’ve been seriously considering renaming Inkwell to something else. Inkwell is a common word, used in a bunch of things. That’s sort of good and bad.

As part of this brainstorming, I’ve used ChatGPT to sanity check a bunch of ideas. Pretty insightful statement from it:

I suspect your hesitation about the replacement names may be telling you something.

Catching up on WordPress.com Reader news, interesting that they based sync on Google Reader:

Any Google Reader-compatible app can now point at WordPress.com and use it as a sync backend. […] This wasn’t directly Fediverse work, but it’s part of the same idea: the Reader as a backend, not a destination. If your reading habit lives in a different app, that’s fine. Your subscriptions still live on WordPress.com.

When I bulit the API for Inkwell, I decided to pattern it after Feedbin’s API instead of Google Reader. Just seemed right.

In this episode, Derek Hanson chats with Kimberly Pace Becker about AI's intersection with language and technology, emphasizing ethics, diverse perspectives, and responsible integration in digital tools.

Nathan Wrigley and Matt Schwartz discuss the evolving impact of AI on WordPress agencies, focusing on how AI can streamline agency processes beyond just building websites. They explore the importance of revisiting workflows, creating AI vision documents, leveraging AI for proposals, internal operations, and support, and offering AI-led services to clients. They also discuss balancing automation with human oversight and highlight WordPress’ advancements in AI integration. The episode concludes with plans for a second part to continue exploring the topic, so tune in next week.

Performance issues are familiar territory for PHP teams. Slow endpoints, uneven response times, and rising infrastructure costs show up in

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The Institute for Primary Facts has compiled more than 3.5 million pages of the Epstein files for public display at the newly opened Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room.

I was disappointed Automattic didn't do their project in RSS first. Two-way, full fidelity, open to all feed readers not just Automattic's.That would rock the world.

At NetEase Games, we learned a hard lesson about large language model (LLM) inference in production: elastic compute is only

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This new app tracks every time you swipe your card at a cool restaurant—and tells all your friends.

What if you’re chasing the wrong kind of meaning? Dave Evans—Stanford educator, Apple pioneer, and co-author of How to Live a Meaningful Life—returns to challenge how we think about purpose. Instead of answering the abstract “meaning of life,” he focuses on a better question...

Young people in China are creating AI versions of exes and carrying on the relationship with a digital twin of the other person. What do you think: sweet, sad or sick?

Young people in China are creating AI versions of exes and carrying on the relationship with a digital twin of the other person. What do you think: sweet, sad or sick?

After six years, the ReMarkable 2 gets a replacement in the form of the ReMarkable Paper Pure.

Agentic AI is in a hurry, and the open-source projects underpinning it are evolving at a breakneck pace. To ensure

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The Association for Computing Machinery‘s (ACM) Technology Policy Council (TPC) has a message for organizations riding the vibe coding wave:

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Olúfémi O. Táíwò argues for a *constructive* form of reparations: distributive justice that looks to the past to construct a transition from the global racial empire we have today to the more just world we wish to arrive at tomorrow—and beyond.

I tested all the major webcams across the price spectrum in attempts to find the very best. Here's what I learned.

If you bought an iPhone 15 or 16 in the US, you could be set to pocket up to $95 per device as part of the settlement.