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  If you’re a nerd & considering running the Apple beta for iOS, I can say that the developer betas have been the most stable and performant betas in *years* and the new AI features in Siri are very obviously animated by Apple understanding that the stakes could not be higher. It’s pretty good stuff.

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  Most documents we encounter in the course of doing our work are somewhere between middling to terrible. A few years ago, I wrote "Make Better Documents", a simple set of guidelines for making presentations, reports, etc. Now, I've turned that set of suggestions into a Better Documents skills.md file, an agent skill for those who use LLMs to help review documents. Naturally, it’s 100% free & open source, so I'd love for you to give it a try & let...

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  So, I am writing a post about "why Bending Spoons picking up Airtable is everything bad in tech right now" — which questions do you want to make sure I answer in the piece?

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  I really wish Apple sold a standalone TouchID button. I know there's that crazy hack where you can rip apart a keyboard and just use the TouchID button, but that's nuts. Just give us the button so we can use TouchID with our own mechanical keyboards!

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  The biggest reason I don’t use Mastodon nearly as often as I’d like to is because, unlike other platforms, too many of the people who act like asses here are people who *follow me*. It’s really weird, because every platform has assholes or whatever, but usually it’s due to context collapse from strangers. Here, it’s usually a tiny minority that wants to scold or police over (often contrived!) objections, and it’s just… exhausting. Takes the fun out of hanging out online. Not sure how to fix it.

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  So, the biggest IPO in the history of the world has the vast majority of its future value being created by an AI platform whose only distinction, thus far, is that it is the only one that's generated sexualized imagery of children? And they're going to force it into our 401ks so we're bag-holders for all the assholes who put stupid money into buying Twitter?

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  RE: https://social.freedom.press/@freedomofpress/116449031735670570 Tonight! Come join us! Will be a great conversation.

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  We're hiring a (PAID.) summer intern to work on @glitchdotcom at Fastly. If you're an undergrad who wants to get some amazing experience and mentorship while working on really interesting challenges, please do take a look — and underrepresented candidates are, of course, warmly welcomed. https://www.fastly.com/about/jobs/apply/?gh_jid=4819921

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  2 FASTLY 2 FEDIVERSE https://www.fastly.com/blog/fastly-and-the-fediverse-pt-2

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  RE: https://zeroes.ca/@kimcrawley/116482535505420647 Kudos for the incredible parody of Mastodon culture here, well done! Seemed almost plausible on first read.

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  The NY Times refuses to cover the murder of Yeremi Colino, which took place in Manhattan the same day as the murder of the UHC CEO, because Colino was an immigrant child killed by a white supremacist who asked whether he could speak English. Just like NYPD refuses to carry out the same kind of manhunt with hourly updates on the killer. They only care about corporate tycoons, not teenagers being killed. This is how they cover for the hate crime.

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  This Zohran Mamdani video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? It is the blueprint.

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  Really clear to me that the new web of fediverse + wasm + tailscale is moving very quickly towards something pretty amazing. As much promise as all the hype of “Web3”, but open, interoperable, and no ties to crypto scams. A lot of incredible things are going to be built across this surface area in the next few years.

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  Okay, so I've been talking about the ways that Big AI directly harms kids. But what can we *do* about it? Here are some things you can do, at work and and your kid's school, to take action today, complete with scripts to follow: https://www.anildash.com/2026/02/23/taking-action-ai-harms/

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  There has absolutely not been a better opportunity in this century to build a successful new search engine for the internet. The dominant players are running full speed to make their offerings worse, and that’s after *years* of complaints that Google’s results are decaying.

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  There could not be a more opportune time to make a competitor to GitHub, especially one grounded in community and accountability. Git was not meant to be centralized; “pull requests” are not actually an open standard and throwing code over the wall at others is not actually social coding.

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  This is a great milestone to see for Mastodon, in evolving towards its new community-focused governance structure. I’m optimistic about what this portends for the platform and how its features & future evolve. (And it’s fun that I was there for the photo being taken!) https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/mastodon-ceo-steps-down-as-the-social-network-restructures/

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  https://www.newyorker.com/humor/sketchbook/is-my-toddler-a-stochastic-parrot

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  Inspired by Hank Green’s fun new timeline of photos from the Artemis II mission, I wrote up an answer to a question that's more pertinent these days than it may seem: Why are the Artemis II photos on Flickr? https://anildash.com/2026/04/30/artemis-photos-flickr/

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  This has been on my mind for *weeks*. I've been saying for a long time that it's possible to have an AI that only uses consensually-gathered content, is open source + open weights, runs on your own machine, and is designed to empower creators instead of exploit them. Well, we've finally got one. https://www.anildash.com/2026/04/28/one-good-ai-is-here/

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  This is a great overview by @davidpierce about the fatally flawed AMP effort from Google. As @zachleat notes, a number of prominent web developers *did* (quite bravely) speak up against it, even as Google treated it as an inevitability for the internet. https://www.theverge.com/23711172/google-amp-accelerated-mobile-pages-search-publishers-lawsuit

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  One of the things that's most frustrating about the hype cycle around OpenClaw is that so much of what people are excited about is just... software? You can automate doing lots of cool stuff with your inbox with deterministic software that's been around for decades, and it won't delete your inbox! And much of it is easier to install than OpenClaw is!

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  "Mozilla's PR team told me they want to be both the best browser for people who hate AI and the safest browser for people who love AI. " In an article where the plan to win over users is: build a better browser. Well! https://www.pcmag.com/news/firefox-ajit-varma-mozilla-browser-plan

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  Tomorrow marks 10 years since Prince passed. For the first time, I gathered nearly two decades of my writing, podcasts, talks & more into one curated resource, including playlists, rarities, a review of every video he ever made, and collaborations I did with his estate. I close it out with a talk I gave in Minneapolis on Prince’s birthday just after he passed – one of my most personal ever, and one I’m most proud of. I hope you’ll check it out. https://anildash.com/2026/04/20/prince-ten-...

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  If you're thinking of Tim Cook's legacy, this piece from last September: How Tim Cook sold out Steve Jobs. https://www.anildash.com/2025/09/09/how-tim-cook-sold-out-steve-jobs/

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  Last night marked 40 years since the live debut of Prince’s band The Revolution, in a scintillating show that included the premieres of half the songs on Purple Rain — including the title track, which was recorded live that night. This is how that moment happened. https://anildash.com/2014/07/25/i_know_times_are_changing/

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  Next week is 10 years since we lost Prince. Since then, the community of Prince scholars has come together regularly for academic symposia on his legacy and works; you can watch for free this weekend if you'd like to join us online or in person at NYU. This year's focus is Prince & the Revolution's 1986 album "Parade" & the movie it accompanied, Under the Cherry Moon. Register for free, and come join us! https://iwonderu.polishedsolid.com

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  Mention "Yahoo Pipes" to your resident Nerd of a Certain Age in order to elicit a wistful, faraway gaze.

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  @Gargron @blaine @mconnor @rigo I’ve been thinking about this a lot for a while (and I’ll write up thoughts so people can respond more fully), but what’s clearly needed is a consistent way of referring to ActivityPub-connected platforms, and “fediverse” doesn’t do the job effectively (at least yet) for the broader audience many of us would like to reach.

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  Something amazing seeing Reggie Hudlin's original 1983 student film version of House Party ("House Party!"), which just popped up on YouTube. There's no Bilal bumping the turntable, or *that* dance scene, but the energy of pre-Run DMC-era hip hop is fierce. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huIekzBVD6k