Archive for Software
Google Contributor is an experimental system that allows you to directly financially support websites you visit. If you sign up...
I've been using the task-list-management app Things since 2009. It's far from perfect, but it's the only to-do-list software that...
The Intercept recently published a long but interesting article about (among other things) CIA-connected researchers' attempts to subvert Xcode, the...
How to install Unix-like software: A text adventure transcript. Based on a true story. Or rather, several remarkably similar true...
I've been playing Google's augmented-reality game Ingress intermittently for a few months now. Yesterday, I reached level 7 and (coincidentally)...
I've been making small database-backed web apps for years now, after learning how by reading the PHP code generated by...
There's a nifty iOS game called Threes, in which you slide numbered tiles around on a board and combine them...
For the past three or four weeks, I've had a blizzard of technological failures. There was a period when my...
In 2003, on the evening when Hugo votes were due, I bought a copy-protected PDF ebook of Coraline from the...
Say your code is suddenly wonky, but the only change you've made recently didn't have anything to do with the...
Sometime in the past year or two, I was thinking about anthologies I'd like to edit, and I came up...
Three items that feel thematically related to me: I've been concerned for a decade or so about the possibility of...