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I run several services on a Synology NAS at home.

I just shipped the biggest update to Hackers since 4.0: version 5.0.

Hackers 4.3 ships today and is available on the App Store.

Today Hackers 4.2 shipped to the iOS App Store.

When I got my 27" iMac in 2017 it came with 8GB of RAM.

One of the biggest challenges in developing Hackers is generating and fetching thumbnails for each post.

I just shipped biggest updates to Hackers since 2017: 4.0.

Iconfactory just released their latest update to the oldest Twitter app around: Twitterrific.

It’s been many years since I regularly wrote a blog, in fact since 2014 my longest piece of writing is probably an email.

Most of my side projects are destined for obscurity, and not many even make it to the lofty heights where I would write a blog post about it.

I've used Squarespace as the host for this website since 2012, and I really enjoyed trading small monthly fee for never having to worry about how any of it worked.

I had some time off over Christmas, so I decided to scratch an itch I’ve had for a while now.

Tomorrow is Apple's big iPhone event day, with a dash of Apple Watch and software thrown in.

Every year I tell myself I don't do New Years Resolutions, they have a tendency to set one up for failure or have goals that are so benign you wonder why you had to wait for new years to do it.

Google are doing some questionable things with new TLDs, and the Internet is letting them get away with it:

I like this new advert.

I find that the longer I run the site, the more resistant I become to the idea of ever giving it up, even if I need to take the occasional break.

Apple's interest in Beats Electronics got me thinking about their headphones.

Marvin Rounce and I are thrilled to announce dot net notts, a user group for .NET stack developers.

As far as cases go, Snugg's Bamboo Case for iPhone is a pretty good one.

Why push back against 24/192?

"Don't be evil" is synonymous with Google, it's their corporate identity.

Lots of people were worried when the new-old Mac Pro was released last June.

Apple's new budget iPod Touch is the first iOS device with a black bezel and silver metal back since the first iPhone.

David Celis:

What's that about a reality distortion field?

My favourite iOS podcasting app now out on the Mac.

The new interface is said to be “very, very flat,” according to one source.

It didn't matter that every major U.S. electronics company assembles its products under the same working conditions -- or worse.

Glad to see Maddox back at his best.

Similar to last month's BBC gaff, CNN reports that Siegel+Gale found in a 'survey' that Samsung Galaxy phones are simplier than iPhones.

The most interesting plan here is to use .search to operate a redirect service on the “on the ‘dotless’ .search domain (http://search/) that, combined with a simple technical standard, will allow a consistent query interface across firms that provide sear…

We did not interpret the content in question as involving any particular sexual orientation, and frankly that would have been a completely irrelevant consideration under any circumstance.

Matt Drance:

The New York Times:

Devices using iOS 6.1 and later with VPN On Demand configured to "Always" will behave as if they were configured with the "Establish if needed" option.

What's the one thing iOS lacks?

40 years since the first mobile phone call was made, the phones themselves have come a long way since.

Yesterday, Tim Cook did something Steve Jobs hardly ever did, he apologised.

Just when you though Yahoo might be getting back on their game by appointing Marissa Meyer as their CEO and rejuvenating Flickr, they spend a rumoured £20 million on a startup with very little in the way of innovative technology or traction.

I think the manager-free model only works for a business that has high margins and depends more on creating hits than cutting costs.

From the people that made Snapseed, a collection of Photoshop, Lightroom, and Aperture plugins designed for photo editing.

Buy him out boys!

In June, 2010, I posted an essay on Core77 entitled "Design Thinking: A Useful Myth."

I'm sure Google PR doesn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Eric Schmidt in not telling the truth shocker.

All of the vulnerabilities can be exploited without privilege and according to Paleari, stem from “Samsung-specific software and customizations.”

CCTV paid Chinese celebrities to post anti-Apple messages to Weibo to promote their "820 Party" TV programme.

Last night, Apple approved the latest Hackers update.