Six years ago, we launched our $10/month plan with podcast hosting. Since then we’ve added several big features to the plan, which is now called Micro.blog Premium. […] Today, I want to bring the podcast feature to more people, so we’re moving it down to the standard $5/month plan. The new audio narration for posts…

Humane was founded in 2018, a time when everyone realized screens could be toxic. Within Silicon Valley, parents made nannies sign contracts agreeing to hide their phones from kids. Maybe they imagined phones being stigmatized the same way we stigmatize public smoking. For all its interesting points, Humane had red flags. Married cofounders are a…

➝ Video My wife has a great saying. She goes: If you treat it like it matters, your pictures will change. Because what happens is: It’s not my real camera, so this picture is not going to be any good. So click. But if you change the way you think about it, it’ll make a…

„Movie Posters Perfected“ streamt mit der Hilfe einer Slideshow-App über 3.500 Filmplakate auf eure Displays. PixFolio greift dabei direkt auf einen 200-GB-Google-Drive-Ordner zu – beides kostet einmalig 20 Euro. Die Diashow-App passt den Hintergrund entsprechend eures Bildschirmes an. Für Filmplakate auf dem iPad empfiehlt sich ein schwarzer Rahmen, während über den Apple TV an einem 16:9-Fernseher auch…

Faszinierender wird’s heute nicht mehr: Hugo Barra arbeitete bis 2021 (!) im Oculus/Meta-Team und schreibt ein Vision-Pro-„Review“. Back in my Oculus days, I used to semi-seriously joke with our team (and usually got a lot of heat for it!) that the best thing that could ever happen to us was having Apple enter the VR…

Progressive Web Apps waren Mitte Februar der Aufreger; Anfang März rollte Apple zurück. Previously, Apple announced plans to remove the Home Screen web apps capability in the EU as part of our efforts to comply with the DMA. The need to remove the capability was informed by the complex security and privacy concerns associated with…

‘For Vision Pro, we understood the idea that this technology of wearing something that could transport you to another place was a very powerful one. And that there were really profound experiences that could come out of it and from changing the users’ context. But we also recognised a lot of the problems that existed…

Basically, instead of returning a bunch of search queries about the Chiefs game, Arc Search built me a webpage about it. And somewhere in there is The Browser Company’s big idea about the future of web browsers — that a browser, a search engine, an AI chatbot, and a website aren’t different things. They’re all…