One of the unsung heroes of the #Fediverse (aka #Mastodon and beyond) are all the great bots available for spicing up your feed. And no, I’m not talking about the nasty bad bots out there which try to slurp up all your content and steal your private details. I’m talking about content bots which humans set up to be fun and amusing! 😆 Check out “My Favorite Fediverse Bots for 2025“ (and download the starter pack CSV!)
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My Favorite Fediverse Bots for 2025
Because you can
Several exciting 25th anniversaries are coming up for fans of Mac OS X and those early days of the Jobsian Mac renaissance. One such anniversary is the unveiling 25 years ago of Aqua, the "lickable" 3D interface which would go on to revolutionize how user interfaces are created and rendered in modern operating systems. As part of Aqua, the Dock was demonstrated—a combination taskbar & launcher which was based in part on the Dock in NeXTSTEP. @npub1yqpd...8tkc reminisces:
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25 Years of the Mac OS Dock
Hat tip to Six Colors by Jason Snell, I’ve become aware that a number of very exciting 25th anniversaries are coming up for fans of Mac OS X and ...
Apple could “remove Google Search” as a choice in Safari In a court filing on Monday, #Apple Senior Vice President Eddy Cue had a lot to say about the antitrust lawsuit against Google. And surprise, surprise, Apple wants to keep the $20 billion revenue sharing agreement in place. Ah Eddy Cue, you never fail to disappoint.
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Apple could “remove Google Search” as a choice in Safari
Eddy Cue never fails to disappoint. This stuff is wild!
Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up in Social Network Decentralized Architecture There’s been a truly fascinating back-and-forth technical conversation between Christine Lemmer-Webber, one of the authors of ActivityPub, and Bryan Newbold, a core engineer at Bluesky. I won’t even attempt to summarize what they talk about because frankly, some of it goes straight over my head—and I’m a Web software programmer! But how I might explain the gist of it in incredibly simple terms is this…
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Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up in Social Network Decentralized Architecture
What users think they want may not actually be what they need.