Jonas DowneyThis new option (in iOS 26.1 beta 4) is dramatically better for everything and should be the default.
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Dan Betcher
@danbetcher
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Family Man, Cache Buster, Component Namer, Coffee Drinker. I tend to over-punctuate. Socially distant before it was cool.
Everytime I listen to people talking about MCP and the agentic web, I can't help but think about this:
MastodonToday Mastodon is taking another step towards its founding ideals: independence and non-profit ownership. We're transferring ownership of key assets to a new, European not-for-profit entity, ensuring our mission remains true to a decentralised social web, not corporate control. #MastodonNonProfit
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/01/the-people-should-own-the-town-square/
The people should own the town square
It is more important than ever that the social web is not controlled by corporations. Today, Mastodon is taking another step towards its founding ideals: independence and non-profit ownership. We're transferring ownership of key assets to a new European not-for-profit entity, ensuring our mission remains true to a decentralised social web, not corporate control.
Imagine it's 2024 and your bank is only just now thinking about 2FA... and they choose SMS as a delivery method 🤦‍♂️
Calibre🆕 Product update time!
We just released CrUX Dashboard: an easy way to check your Core Web Vitals based on Chrome User Experience Report, which collects data from real user sessions on your sites and apps. Now, you can:
→ check your Core Web Vitals assessment over time
→ track real user data with no tracking scripts to install ✨
→ get into RUM without feeling overwhelmed
MacStories“Wherever You Get Your Podcasts” Is a Radical Statement https://www.macstories.net/linked/wherever-you-get-your-podcasts-is-a-radical-statement/
“Wherever You Get Your Podcasts” Is a Radical Statement
I thoroughly enjoyed this story by Anil Dash on how the openness of podcasting (a topic I’ve covered before) has proven so resilient over the years and is, in fact, more relevant than ever in the era of federated social networks: But here’s the thing: being able to say, “wherever you get your podcasts” is
Amber WeinbergI've been in this industry long enough to see things constantly come & go. #React is no different - it'll be replaced by other frameworks soon & those will be hot for a bit. Then that one will be replaced & so on. Learn your basics! #HTML #CSS, *plain* #JS. Those are the *only* things that don't come & go & will take you through your entire career, regardless of what's cool right now. Will I still be coding #WordPress in 10 years? Who knows! But my knowledge of #PHP will carry me on.
DgarNew York City is like Linux
* Spend the first year re-learning how to perform basic tasks
* Spend the rest of your lifetime claiming how much better it is
* Bad drivers
Casey NewtonHow might AI gradually replace the internet we know today? I wrote about Raycast, GPT-4, and the glimpse they offer of life after the web https://www.platformer.news/p/how-to-use-future-ai-interfaces-today
April Kingmy favorite new iOS 17 feature is one nobody has mentioned anywhere. under:
Accessibility > Touch > Haptic Touch > Touch Duration
you can set the Touch Duration to fast, to make it recognize long presses in less time. huge improvement.