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Thursday, May 7, 2026 Why did Twitter win? Because the RSS developers wouldn't work with each other. Thus subscribing to a feed was complicated. In Twitter, it was one click to subscribe, and another to unsub. You could see who your friends subscribed to, again -- one click...

You know when I’m home on my own I don’t watch much TV like actual TV, but I do watch music videos on YouTube on the TV. Sometimes new music but often ones I know really well. Music videos are such a vibe. And it’s social too? I’ve spent many evenings with friends that just ...

Leaders at the tech giant were skeptical of OpenAI—but wary of pushing it into the arms of Amazon, according to emails dating back to 2018.

Elon Musk had lots of reasons to make a deal with Anthropic — but he wouldn’t have done it if he were ahead. PLUS: The incredible testimony of Shivon Zilis, and a big new study on school phone bans

We lost Ted Turner, a patron saint of Tedium, just as an entrepreneur made an audacious Turner-style bet. What can we learn from that?

Where a subscriber came from is now a first-class filter on audiences and automations.

Gutenberg 23.1 ships a native UI for custom post types. Good. But CPTs without custom fields are just renamed posts, and the half Core still hasn't answered is the half that matters.

Fun video on YouTube from Steve Wallis trying to make a huge swamp cooler. Actual portable A/C units are getting a little smaller… I check Amazon every few months for the latest and will eventually get one.

Stu Maschwitz: Prolost Watches is an iPhone app for managing your watch collection. It’s part database, part journal; designed for the detail-obsessed mind of the watch fanatic. As you log each day’s choice of watch, insights are revealed. Wear logs trace a path on the m...

Kubernetes is complicated; everybody knows it. Logically enough, Kubernetes deployed as a cluster of collected and coalesced instances at “fleet

The post How Microsoft is governing thousands of Kubernetes clusters without manual intervention appeared first on The New Stack.

I can relate to the original meaning of this old term that means to be good citizen of the internet.

L cleaned out her childhood email account a few weeks ago and forwarded me something I wrote to her in 2013. It's a masterlist of curated links from across the internet that I created and sent to a list of my friends at age 11. In spirit it is nearly identical to the types of link round-ups and blogrolls I see all over the internet these days, my own blog included.

“In nine experiments involving 1,800 participants, researchers found that people consistently underestimated how interesting and enjoyable conversations about boring topics would be.”

Today on Uncanny Valley, we’re diving into recent reports that the Trump administration is considering an executive order that would establish some sort of federal oversight over new AI models.

I say to Claude: btw, i would have been surprised if it was broken, that feature went in very quickly and i use it a fair amount. one of the two big pages in feedland is the Feed List page. here's a screen shot. maybe you can figure out what everything does?? Example of a...

I was clicking around in App Store Connect as I wait for Inkwell to be approved. The long list of submissions and rejections is unusual for me, so thought I’d capture the table here as a blog post. Hopefully this is just about the end of it. 🤞 Status ...

A DHS official and another person who attended a recent conference described the plans to 404 Media.

The team has quietly launched collections on mastodon.social as was promised (but slightly delayed) in a blog post a few weeks ago. Here's one I made for webcomics of Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/collections/116533503334952204

David Kaylor is re-editing Rogue One into what he calls “The Andor Cut”; the trailer seems pretty compelling and well-done. He says this is Rogue One if it was produced after Andor: The original version is the events of Rogue One as seen through Jyn’s perspective, and thi...

A quick reminder that NLnet has an Open Social Fund specifically for projects that implement ActivityPub. They make grants of 5000 to 50000 euros. Their next proposal deadline is June 1, 2026. The proposal process requires just a few hours of work. It’s definitely worth the time to get into this important program!