Every once in a while, a new platform pops up in the fediverse that legitimately surprises me. As the ecosystem continues to grow and shift and change, new apps emerge with completely new kinds of fuAn overview of BookWyrm, a federated social reading app designed as an alternative to GoodReads.
Posts Tagged with 'tech'
Over the last few months, I have spent a lot of time thinking about, talking about, and building a search engine. The search engine was...
https://jamesg.blog/2021/09/20/thoughts-on-building-a-search-engine
Students from the Netherlands will take their new solar ride 3,000 km to Spain.
I'd love to take a road trip in one of these.
In this community update we’ll discuss PinePhone keyboard progress (and hurdles), add-on back cases awaiting developers approval…
https://www.pine64.org/2021/09/15/september-update-hurdles-and-successes/
Insurance claims, maintenance tickets show how snow and storms hit solar power.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/09/the-stormy-relationship-between-solar-power-and-the-weather/
I recently entertained a question about why I decided to turn what was a search engine for my blog into an IndieWeb Search engine. My...
https://jamesg.blog/2021/09/15/why-i-am-building-indieweb-search
JSON output must become the norm for application pipelining. Until then, jc can help.
https://blog.kellybrazil.com/2019/11/26/bringing-the-unix-philosophy-to-the-21st-century/
Thanks to a big donation, Caltech has funded a sci-fi-sounding project.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/08/where-the-sun-always-shines-putting-solar-in-space/
Bill would make iOS and Android more open to 3rd-party stores and sideloaded apps.
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1786775
This seems like exactly what I've wanted for a while. Now we have to wait and see if it makes it into law, and how much of it survives. Then,if it passes, we'll have to wait through years of litigation as both of these behemoths try to implement this in the most consumer-unfriendly way possible to defend their respective monopolies.
Matter has a feature-complete specification, but its SDK is coming in 1H 2022.
There's been a lot of discussion recently about how "Safari is the new IE" (1, 2, 3, 4, 5).I don't want to rehash the basics of that, but I…
https://httptoolkit.tech/blog/safari-is-killing-the-web/
Too true, but I don't think Apple, as a company, cares. I think it's clear that Apple doesn't want to cut into their app store revenue.
Preorders kick off on July 16, but you'll need an older Steam account.
I really hope this does well. I'd love a portable gaming machine without having to deal with Nintendo's hamstringing. And running a Linux-based OS is an added bonus