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Apple has made a lot of partnerships with big companies like Quantum Computer Services (AOL), Microsoft, HP, Intel, Cingular (AT&T), Epic Games, Valve, Capcom, and Ubisoft.

This is the first home screen post with iOS 18!

In the wake of the death of social media, it seems that some of the best app developers have decided to make RSS reader "super apps."

I have some thoughts on your average community discord.

I've made it clear that I have a huge dislike of Apple's yearly update cycle for their software (and hardware, to be honest).

What are you reading?

I've been watching Dokploy for a bit now and it has been maturing pretty fast.

I really want to like Nova.

In Safari, there's a feature that was heavily touted at launch called Privacy Reports.

We need more options in life than evil versus slightly less evil.

I've mentioned a few times about my exodus from services like Vercel and Netlify because of things like their unreasonable pricing strategies.

My wife just finished a PIGS Summer Slow Jam, a game jam, where the theme was resource management, with four others called Clara's Cauldron Conumdrum that I think you should play, but I am biased.

It was late 2020 when Apple started enforcing privacy nutrition labels on apps.

Apple has long been posterizing that they care about diversity and the environment, but their actions have never backed it up.

It's always good to check in with what the current export strategy is for any given framework, app, or service.

I'm exiting the "serverless" Jamstack hosting space.

This roundup is a good one and a deep one.

Warning: Very light spoilers for the movie "I Saw the TV Glow."

After my false start of releasing web component packages on NPM, I decided to take a portion of this website I've never mentioned is a feature here and give it it's own proper web component.

If you want to keep up with what I am up to, here's the where and how.

If you find yourself with spare money, please consider giving it to Trans Lifeline or someone directly who is using the hashtag TransCrowdFund.

Read later apps started as a way to have a distraction-free reading experience.

Becoming a teen is to learn to worship brands.

I've avoided making a slashpage for my default apps for a while because my ideal goal is to not need very many apps.

For nearly 20 years, 1Password has been a favorite among people on their Apple devices.

On Sunday I dropped an indie web service provider for not seeing eye to eye on if trans and nonbinary people deserve to be visible in the world.

Someone who works on Webkit was recently asking for a list of websites that work in every other browser but Safari.

These days I often hear some bozo who thinks the web is just a few social media websites claim the internet is dying.

Last year when Jonathan M.

What's different: Textastic - A simple text editor that I can use to write HTML and see it previewed.

It would be interesting to hear how others lived during the early days of the pandemic.

This morning I decided to log in to my Verizon account to look for ways to, uh, ultimately increase my bill.

I can't believe it's come to this but I have spun up my own search engine with SearXNG.

I slept on this feature when it first came out, but when I noticed that omg.lol added support for sharing public iMessage Contact Verification keys, I woke up.

Since November 2022, people have been creating these long convoluted guides to figure out how to keep using a toxic and hostile social media site.

In 2018, I was running a Mastodon server for my friends.

A month after moving from San Francisco I have learned some new things that I don't know if people outside of Portland are aware of.

These are current as to the moment I post this and forget to keep it updated.

I feel like if someone wanted to, they could probably figure out where I have worked.

I play a lot of games of all kinds, and even games that are in first person.

I run a few self-hosted services and I wanted to provide a portal that only people on my network could reach.

Last month I moved from San Francisco to Portland with my wife and cat.

Apps you see: Obsidian Discord YouTube ShellFish Screens Remote Desktop Drafts GoodLinks Omnivore Reeder (beta) Reeder Play 1Password Kindle Wallpapers by Andy Carolan

After my last trip, I bought what might be one of my favorite routers ever, let alone a travel router, the GL-iNet's Beryl AX (GL-MT3000).

The other day I joked on Mastodon attempting to make a single feed of everything i post online. not for the public, but for my therapist.

JSON Feeds have been around since 2017 but the adoption of them hasn't gone far enough.

I recently wrote about my decade in San Francisco.

A hot take I have been mulling on since my wife got me to watch the 1993 Mario movie: Super Mario Bros. (1993) is better than The Super Mario Bros.

While migrating between apps can be a chore, I like that I can do it.

Provided I have the money to spend at the time, I generally upgrade my iPad Pro every 2 releases as it's my main computer I get a new Apple Watch if my current one is broken as the Apple Watch hasn't changed significantly since it came out almost a decade…