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  • Can Andreas Kling and Ladybird challenge the current browser landscape?

    youtube.com

    I speak with Andreas Kling of the Ladybird browser about his programming journey, and the project’s plans to build a new, truly alternative, browser.

  • Sunsetting Writerside IDE | The Writerside Blog

    blog.jetbrains.com

    Writerside was a bold move from Jetbrains, creating an IDE dedicated to technical writing. I reviewed and tested it a couple of times, and while it had some interesting tools and ideas, it involved teams moving a toolchain all in to the platform, which was maybe too restrictive. It’s not dead, but is moving to a plugin only for other IntelliJ IDEs, which makes sense, and I wonder if this was always the strategy anyway.

  • Find the Best Indie Books at Books2Read.com

    books2read.com

    Publishing any kind of content often requires sending out a sea of links, hoping that one of the ones you provide suits a potential customer. Books are more complex as one of the main vendors, Amazon, also has multiple regional stores, so which do you give to people? Enter universal book links (UBLs) that lets you set up a vanity link for all the your store links, also handling regional preferences. It’s not perfect, but sometimes it’s good to know you’re not the only one who has a problem :)

  • Openvibe — Town Square for Open Social Media

    openvibe.social

    Social media became complicated. And kind of dead, but that’s a different discussion. Still, with many of the new platforms using some form of open web protocol, this means that a unified platform for viewing and posting to timelines is possible. Enter Openvibe! I have found it to be a little sporadic in showing timelines from certain networks, but it’s a great start!

  • From pain to productivity: How I learned to code with my voice

    whitep4nth3r.com

    If there’s one aspect of computing that the recent wave of AI tools has improved, it’s accessibility for people who have limitations using their hands. I have had a few people reach out to me over the years with improvements in using voice to interacting with a computer, and this post is yet another wonderful example of progress.