Ian Applebaum

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Instructor @ Temple University teaching Software Design and Projects in Computer Science.
Software Developer @ Electric Bluefish Productions Inc.
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In case you're curious, I'm tracking ~840 apps on the visionOS App Store, up by a hundred or so since Vision Pro hit retail

As promised, today we're giving you a look behind the scenes with Project Tapestry.

We’ve seen folks thinking that we're making an RSS reader – because that's all they can imagine. And that's natural – there has never been something like this before.

The personal web is now programmable.

https://blog.iconfactory.com/2024/02/tapestry-unwoven/

Tapestry Unwoven • The Breakroom

It’s a bold claim to say you can make a universal timeline for the Internet. But you can. And we have. This post will explain the technology behind Project Tapestry and how we tested it as a prototype. We’ll keep this discussion at a fairly basic level: if you’re a web or app developer, you’ll […]

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The #Weather app doesn't show sunrise and sunset on #applewatch. The Clock app does! On #iOS is life still normal - you can find these in the Weather app as expected. For #outdoors enthusiasts it's illogical. #inconsistency

From my experience as a maintainer of midly successful open-source projects, I have come to the conclusion that people who criticize accepting payment to work on such projects are either acting in bad faith or are incredibly naive.

Anyway, Jacob Kaplan-Moss’s recent Paying people to work on open source is good is a stellar post on the topic of open-source sustainability.

https://jacobian.org/2024/feb/16/paying-maintainers-is-good/

#OpenSource

Paying people to work on open source is good actually - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

If you have a problem with maintainers getting paid then you have a problem with me and I suggest you let that one marinate.

Dr Hoot #DoctorWho
Happy 90th Birthday Tom Baker 🎂
#DoctorWho #TomBaker
It's honestly a little worrying that Apple showed off native ports of Microsoft Office for visionOS, but its own Numbers app was run in iPad emulation mode. And this is what I don't get about not having a launch event — …do you not have native versions of all your first-party apps to still show off? Is that just not happening?
No one ever leaves voice mails…
Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration

Mark Zuckerberg said Threads is testing ActivityPub support that will make its posts available on Mastodon and other interoperable services.

The Verge

The network effect for #ActivityPub is gaining some serious momentum right now. As more services adopt the protocol, more people, more communities and more content are added to the network making it increasingly more valuable for everyone. This will only accelerate in the coming months as Threads, Wordpress, Tumblr, Flipboard and others federate.

We're still in early innings but there's no way to put this genie back in the bottle. The open social Web / the #Fediverse is going to be huge.