Newsletter

Small newsletter today covering niche topics like Berlin tourism, the slow decline of an open source project, and other interesting tidbits.

In this newsletter, Anthropic leaks, skills seep, sounds speak, and CSS leaps!

Squeezing this in before Europe vanishes for Easter, if they haven't already. On the subject of Europe, a great piece about Tech Bros in Europe, The dictionary sues OpenAI, and all sorts of mac tweaking power user wonder. Enjoy!

An open source community tAIrs itself apart, Grammarly upsets an awful lot of people, and RIP VC?

New hardware, old hardware, making history fun, and more.

New hardware, old hardware, making history fun, and more.

Sustainable festivals, age restricting the internet, and more.

More jQuery, open source has had enough, and many sad goodbyes

What happened to German engineering, where did (some of) the vegans go, and a trip down (lack of) memory lane and early computing.

Internet outages, make music through voice, Ruby is dead, and long live… jQuery?

The AI bubble, memory leaks, startups in Syria, and more!

RIP your favourite browser, privacy, and music streaming?

New Apple operating systems, the history of essential apps, nine hour Monopoly, and more.

The web is drowning in JavaScript and the vibe is, there will be more.

Quieter dog days of summer issue with what else, but tales of woe!

A packed issue with music, AI, macOS history, work trends in tech, and so much more.

This issue, I finally embrace a pro-user keyboard shortcut, containerization on macOS gets even better, AI bands storm the streaming charts, and more!

It was WWDC time, so this newsletter is unashamedly packed with Apple related news, but stay with me… It's in-depth!

Classic shows and services say goodbye and new approaches try something new.

Lots of interesting content regarding the fallout from tariffs this issue, the death of some infamous legacy technology, and the impact of generative AI on open source projects. In this increasingly divided world I'd love to hear from you on how you keep you're head above water but out of the sand.

Hopefully some of you are old enough to get the reference. If not, well, you missed pogoing around clubs in the early 2000s to a song, that frankly, most of us got sick of hearing. I digress. Time for some links!

It's nearly March 2025 and I am finally back with a Newsletter! Sorry about that 😬. I have been spending some time fixing up the toolchain behind the Newsletter as I intend to do more with it (and some new newsletters too) and wanted to build something that made it easier for me to get content together and keep a copy on my website. Anyway, back now, and with a fair backlog of content.