Despite the persistent nags to accept or decline tracking cookies on websites, the online surveillance industry already has more advanced techniques for monitoring your wanderings across the web. Collectively, this is called “fingerprinting”. This site shows everything a website can extract from you without needing...

Reading yet another one of the countless articles and opinion pieces from people discovering that it’s good not to spend the whole day glued to their phone, I picked up an ~interesting technique. When Anna Mathur is with her kids and needs to do something on her phone, she “announces” the action: One habit that...

Neubrutalism is a digital aesthetic movement that rejects modern polished neutrality in favor of what they call “graphic bluntness”: high-contrast palettes, bold typography, strongly defined shapes, and conspicuous structure — especially outlines and hard shadows.

Elon Musk’s lawyers sent a cease-and-desist letter to Nitter’s maintainer, a legitimate service that displays X posts through a different interface. The person, who goes by zedeus, complied with the threat, took down their own Nitter instance, and stopped development. These guys don’t even bother hiding the...

I’ve mentioned the Pacific Block extension for Safari in passing a few times before. It’s a content blocker, but instead of ads and trackers, it blocks images, audio, and video. It’s great for saving data on a limited mobile plan (like a pay-as-you-go carrier plan) and for speeding up web browsing on unstable...

There’s a small but significant crisis in the world of Apple blogs and independent iOS developers. The blog MacStories, after loudly announcing its departure from what was then Twitter in 2022, returned to Elon Musk’s platform this August. The return was made quietly. Not even the blog’s regular contributors knew...

A collection of old computer games that run directly from the browser. (Get ready for some big downloads.) Saw this link in the Codecon newsletter [pt_BR].

The results are out from the independent survey on the WordPress community, conducted by the WP Open Community collective. It represents a scathing critique of WordPress’s direction and, especially, of Matt Mullenweg’s leadership. For example, 73.8% said they feel more negative about the project than 24 months ago....

A detailed database of Microsoft brands for their cloud solutions: the names, dates and duration of each one, all backed by trusted sources. I don’t think there is another technology company with an identity crisis as acute as Microsoft. Marcos Daniel’s tip.

“The calmest way to run local WordPress.” That’s how Cove presents itself. It’s a CLI app that spins up local websites with automatic HTTPS, one-click admin login, and integration with Cloudflare Tunnels. For Linux, macOS and Windows (WSL2).

The Mastodon team published some mock-ups of the upcoming version 5.0. The ideas all seem good to me, especially the greater distinction of private mentions (renamed “messages”) and the emphasis given to the lists (renamed “custom feeds”).

Your goal in this game is to eliminate 999 penguins by combining three or more of the same color. (I managed to reach 170 penguins left.)