John Voorhees writing about Arc’s latest escapades in MacStories Weekly: Issue 408 It’s that intermediate layer that makes me suspicious of Arc’s motives. The company is starting to feel like a wolf in sheep’s clothing, a browser with an interesting, playful design on the surface and

“I don’t have anything of value.” I hear that a lot when I give tips about fire and burglary protection. When a customer said it recently, his girlfriend didn’t miss a beat: “You have me.” Touché. It was a joke, but also a truth. We take so much for granted: Family Friends Home Health Freedom We often only notice the value when it’s gone. But we don’t have to wait for that.

"Forget about word counts. Set aside a bit of time every day to write — whether it becomes a blog post or not. Experiment. Explore. Play. That’s what personal blogging is all about."

Loneliness in blogging isn’t always what it seems. Even when we don’t hear the claps or see the likes, there may still be a quiet audience out there, listening.

In the latest episode of one of my favorite Swedish podcasts, Alex & Sigge, the author Sigge Eklund said something interesting: So very true! How others ...

Mai chim fan. Toothpick in Thai. It was one of the first words I made sure to learn when I came to Thailand. Partly because I knew I would have use for it...

I used to never share how I felt, not even with my closest friends. Blogging about it would have been completely unthinkable. On the outside, everything ...

Why do I blog? Because I like to write. That's my spontaneous answer. And it's true—but far from the whole truth. It became obvious when I chose to wri...

Yesterday I was a little cheeky. I hope it was received in good fun as I didn’t mean to offend! The very good news is that Robert Birming put together...

In the early 2000s we netizens used to find things by hypertext. Sure, you’d go to web directories like Yahoo! to look for a starting point, usually based on a...

When I get wistful for the internet of old, one thing that strikes me is that all the blogs back then, well, they were just blogs. The idea of weblog...

The commercial web is utterly broken. Thankfully, there is another friendly and interesting internet out there.

A pesar de estar elogiando los feeds RSS... resulta que este blog no ofrece uno.

On the purpose of a personal blog, getting back into creative pursuits, and general burnout

Explore the IndieWeb, the slow web, the independent web, one blog per day

Hi All! 🤗 For the summer holidays, my family and I went to France. On our way to the Atlantic Ocean, we shortly stopped in Chartres, a lovely town southwest...

The simple pleasure of listening to music the old-school way by storing it on your phone. Pros and cons of managing your music library offline. Rediscovering patience from the early digital era.

As-Easy-As was a popular spreadsheet for DOS and Windows. Here's how it all started.

"One of the big appeals of interactive TV was adoption, the average household had a TV long before the average household had a computer. So, it seems like interactive TV services should have proliferated before personal computers, at least following the logic that many in the industry did at the time."

I always think of myself as a big proponent of Mac apps that are as Mac-like as possible, but what does “Mac-like” really mean?