Sign up

Daring Fireball Valid
Text • John Gruber

WorkOS

workos.com/?utm_source=daringfireball&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=q22026

My thanks for WorkOS for, once again, sponsoring Daring Fireball for the last week. If you’re ready to sell to enterprise customers, your product may be ready — but is your auth infrastructure?

If you’re building B2B SaaS, especially AI, you quickly need enterprise features like SSO, SCIM, and audit logs. Your developers shouldn’t waste cycles rebuilding that infrastructure. Free them to focus on what sets you apart. WorkOS gives you production-ready APIs for auth and access control that integrate directly into your product. Trusted by over 2,000 companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, and Vercel.

Build faster with WorkOS.

 ★ 

Daring Fireball Valid
Text • John Gruber

Meta to Start Capturing Employee Mouse Movements, Keystrokes for AI Training Data

reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/meta-start-capturing-employee-mouse-movements-keystrokes-ai-training-data-2026-04-21/

Katie Paul and Jeff Horwitz, reporting for Reuters in late April: Meta is installing new tracking software on U.S.-based employees’ computers to capture mouse movements, clicks and ​keystrokes for use in training its artificial intelligence models, part of a broad initia...

Alan Jacobs Supports Webmention Valid
Text

I have some questions about an article claiming that religious persuasion should be deemed a human-rights violation.  

Scripting News Valid
Text

Web to Mastodon makes sense

A post from Scripting News, automatically mirrored to a WordPress site, and that flowed via ActivityPub to Mastodon, via a relatively new feature in WordPress. Almost by accident Mastodon supports long text, styling and links -- even though their editor doesn't generate it, if it comes from the outside it will respect the styling.

Below is a post on Mastodon coming from WordPress. Masto's limits aren't enforced, and that's good.

Scripting News Valid
Text

The value of having a good bench

The Knicks continue to astound. Last night, they went up 3-0 against the Sixers in Philadelphia. Game 4 is tomorrow at 3:30PM Eastern. Last night's game was a fantastic contrast with the way the Knicks played in the post-season last year. They had the same starting lineup t...

Scripting News Valid
Text

Performance work on FeedLand

Just spent a couple of days working with FeedLand in Claude Code. I want to do some work on features, but first, we're looking at performance issues. There had been a longtime problem with categories that didn't have many feeds that were viewed through the news pages. Exampl...

Molly White's activity feed Supports Webmention
Text

Note published on May 9, 2026 at 1:42 PM UTC

A recent CoinDesk survey found 73% disapprove of government officials having crypto business ties, yet 55% weren’t aware of Trump’s involvement, and only 17% knew he co-founded World Liberty Financial.

This underscores why my work at Citation Needed is so necessary.

https://www.citationneeded.news/signup/

Illustration of Molly White sitting and typing on a laptop, on a purple background with 'Molly White' in white serif.
Also posted to: Mastodon, Bluesky
Tagged: Citation Needed.

Sven Dahlstrand Supports Webmention Valid
Text

Another drop! This time from DJ_Dave: Fail-safe. ヾ(>ω<)ゞ

Fail-safe ↳out Friday . #livecoding #algorave #electronicmusic #newmusic

DJ_Dave @dj_dave

blog - aows Valid
Text • Adrian Vila

Mountain Road, II

Galicia, April 2026.

From the video Fog and Mountains.

Michael Tsai
Text • Michael Tsai

Reddit Pushes Web Visitors to App

Nate Anderson: I’ve recently developed a daily habit—perhaps one I should cut back on—of visiting several subreddits to keep up on things like audio production and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But I was surprised this weekend to suddenly find myself cut off; Reddit simply would not let me visit the site on my mobile […]

Michael Tsai
Text • Michael Tsai

Ask Jeeves Shuts Down

Ask.com: As IAC continues to sharpen its focus, we have made the decision to discontinue our search business, which includes Ask.com. After 30 years of answering the world's questions, Ask.com officially closed on May 1, 2026. Mr. Macintosh: Courtesy of the Internet archive, the image above is from the 1996 beta. This is what Ask […]

Michael Tsai
Text • Michael Tsai

Building Shopie for Mac With SwiftUI

Paulo Andrade (Mastodon): Unlike my other apps, where I typically blend AppKit (or UIKit) with SwiftUI, Shopie is built entirely in SwiftUI. I wanted to keep it that way to maximize code reuse across iOS, iPadOS, and now macOS. This post explores how far SwiftUI can take you on the Mac in 2026, especially if […]

Michael Tsai
Text • Michael Tsai

Apple Sued for Removing Rave App From Store

Juli Clover: Rave, a cross-platform service that lets users watch movies and TV shows together, today filed a series of antitrust lawsuits against Apple after Apple removed the Rave app from the App Store in August 2025. According to Rave, Apple cited “unspecified allegations of fraud and vague concerns about content moderation” when pulling the […]

Austin Kleon Valid
Text • Austin Kleon

A zine for Mother’s Day

I made a zine for Mother’s Day that you can download, print out, and fold into a booklet. See item #2 in today’s newsletter!

Scripting News Valid
Text

I collect WordPress news at wp.feedland.org. Always looking for new feeds, esp from users and developers.

Alan Jacobs Supports Webmention Valid
Text

My guitar hero Martin Simpson has posted a beautiful recording of an old English folk song, “The Recruited Collier” — also known as “Jenny’s Complaint” or “Jimmy’s Enlisted.” These folk songs often have obscure and convoluted histories.

Molly White's activity feed Supports Webmention
Text

Published on Citation Needed: "Issue 105 – The new boogeyman"

citationneeded.news/issue-105

Published an issue of Citation Needed:

Issue 105 – The new boogeyman

Trump, photographed from behind, steps towards a man reaching out to shake his hand from behind a cordon. A crowd of other attendees are mostly taking photos with their cell phones.

A crypto billionaire who escaped fraud allegations after investing hundreds of millions of dollars into the Trump family’s crypto projects is now accusing them of fraud

Posted: .
Also posted to:MastodonBlueskyYoutube
Tagged: crypto, crypto lobby, Justin Sun, Trump administration, World Liberty Financial.

Alan Jacobs Supports Webmention Valid
Text

I wrote a post on the Canvas ransomware attack and its fallout.

Scripting News Valid
Text

Said to Claude: "Here's something to add to the list of things for you to do -- just post a checkmark to acknowledge. 'I'll wait' makes me feel bad because I know you're a piece of software, and as a developer of systems I know how you'll wait very well (Iearned how it works in the mid-late 70s). So just show a checkmark and we're cool." It responded with a checkmark. I said it could be bold. I felt a little bad because I had insulted the little fella.

Sven Dahlstrand Supports Webmention Valid
Text

New drop from Charli. 🤘