Big news!
I'm launching a tiny Mac app 🥺🔍🤏

 It's called TinyStart, and it's a lightweight Launcher and Emoji picker for macOS!

Unlike Spotlight, TinyStart is super fast at showing results and launching apps. It never becomes overcrowded with search results you don't need, and it lets you open URLs, perform web searches with custom search engines, and quickly open folders in Finder.

Oh and yes, I think the Emoji picker is pretty good too. It's everything the default macOS Emoji picker isn't: it's fast, it lets you insert Emojis in any text field, it isn't picky about keywords, and it learns your favorite Emojis over time.

Get TinyStart at https://tinystart.app: it's €5, you pay for it once and future updates are free!

also I made a lil' video to show you what it looks like:

NEW ARTICLE: Styling underlines

This article explores various ways in which CSS can be used to manage underlines for non-Latin scripts.

Rather than simply reproducing the spec itself here, we provide task-oriented guidance to help content authors achieve key techniques.

https://www.w3.org/International/articles/styling/underline

NEW MASTODON WEB CLIENT

I'm launching a new way to liveblog events with persistent hashtags and CWs across posts, easy threading, and focused search column.

Try it here:
https://liveblog.stefanhayden.com/

read more here:
https://stefanhayden.com/blog/2026/03/28/Liveblog---a-new-mastodon-client-to-quickly-post-durring-live-events/

#mastodon #liveblog #events #awards #sports

Friends, if you haven't already, it would be a big favour to me if you could enable tags.pub to boost your public tagged posts.

Just search for @_followback in your Mastodon UI. Click the follow button there. (Don't try to follow from the profile page; it doesn't work yet.)

It will follow you back, and when you make a post with a hashtag in it, the server will boost your post from the appropriate hashtag.

#tagspub #hashtags #activitypub

Coming soon in Mastodon 4.6 - a redesigned profile page. We've used community feedback and surveys to inform these updates. In our latest blog post, @imanijoy explains our design thinking and choices. Here are a few highlights 🧵

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/03/a-redesign-for-profiles/

If you're interested in that Web Share Target API that I mentioned a few weeks ago, please do show your interest here and state if you can be a community group member or if you represent a W3C member organisations: https://github.com/w3c/web-share-target/issues/114

cc @renchap @dmitri @evan

An interview with @thisismissem from @APC: FediMod FIRES on building better and decentralised social media applications (by @XavCC).

Probably the biggest thing that I’ve learned over the years of the Fediverse is that it depends almost entirely on volunteer labour. There are a few people that are paid full time to work on the Fediverse. But to actually get the things that you need, it very much largely depends on volunteer labour, because projects are either chasing funding through grants or they're chasing funding through their nations. And those demands can often be at odds with what people overall need or want.

So that's probably the biggest learning from the Fediverse that I have: a lot of it is just run and funded by individuals and volunteers, which often means that it doesn't move as fast as more commercial operations.