OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, released their own browser called Atlas, and it actually is something new: the first browser that actively fights against t...

Each year, folks ask me for predictions about what's going to happen in tech in the coming year. Generally, what they're really asking is what I hope/expect is...

The key to protecting people's privacy on the internet isn't in trying to stop users' data from being sent to different services, it's in poisoning the well by...

The Konami Code is one of the longest-running inside references amongst both gamers and coders, acting as something of a shibboleth for a certain kind of nerd....

These days, I'm a hobbyist web developer. That used to be a common thing people did; it was like having a crafting hobby, but with web pages. Over the last dec...

I was delighted to discover Omar Rizwan's TabFS , a brilliant hack that lets you see your browser tabs as folders and files on your computer, because it's inc...

About once a year, I do a little digital reset to help make my online life a little more pleasant. I’m not advocating that anybody do the same as me, but I h...

Twenty five years ago today, Microsoft released Windows 95. It was undoubtedly a technical leap forward, but its biggest, most lasting impacts are about how it...

Today, for about half an hour in the afternoon, pretty much every app that you might try on your iPhone would likely have crashed upon opening it. It's probabl...

Playdate, the upcoming indie handheld gaming console from venerable software publisher Panic, is really important. But if you don't know the history of where t...

This was so fun! I got another chance to host the Stack Overflow podcast, and this time did it in fine style with Jess Lee and Ben Halpern of the Practical D...

Okay, here’s the story: I’m the new CEO of Fog Creek Software ! And we have an awesome new tool called Glitch that just launched today, and you should go tr...

Everybody’s got advice on what Twitter needs to do at its current crossroads. The answer might lie in revisiting the moment they first broke geeks’ hearts....

Here’s a lesson in how software development works. Say you’d like to port a popular arcade game to your home video console. You can give a guy like Tod Frye...

First, some disclaimers: I’m writing this as I sit a few feet away from Medium’s NYC team. (I even asked them for tech support while writing this!) Ev Williams...

I lament the end of the personal CMS market; I was happy to back Ghost on Kickstarter today for the same reason that I back pretty much any effort at making...

One of my favorite aspects of the infrastructure of the web is that the way we refer to web browsers in a technical context: User Agents. Divorced from its gee...

The era of User Generated Discontent began about a decade ago, when a critical mass of people started using social apps on the web often enough that they felt...

(First, thanks/apologies to Andy Baio for listening to my musings on a mullet-style app strategy and coining “Mullet-platform”. It’s horrible and wonderful.)...

I don’t usually agree to participate in corporate promo videos, but Microsoft asked me to talk broadly about why writing software is still inspiring to me afte...

There are lots of different ways to measure how friendly a company is toward developers, and whether a tech company complies with the values that its developer...

This month’s Wired magazine includes a milestone I’m incredibly excited about: My first published print column! You can read Safe In Its Shell , my explorat...

This is a long-ass post. In summary: Readability and Instapaper are two awesome reading tools that actually aren’t in competition since Readability is mostly a...

Back in 2009, I founded Expert Labs based on the idea that technology could help all of us better engage with our government and encourage policy makers to l...

Twitter’s Bootstrap framework for creating web sites and apps is the culmination of half a decade’s work by the web design community in creating CSS resets,...

The latest launch I’m ecstatic to share with you all: My friends at Readability (whom I advise) announced their amazing new platform ! Though it’s best know...

Today, ThinkUp is out of beta and available for free . If you have a presence on Twitter, Facebook or Google+ and know how to run a PHP/MySQL app on a web s...

Since a few people told me they found my notes on cloudtop applications useful when I posted them a few months ago, I thought I’d share some more notes in th...

Providing more evidence that blogging is something you can get better at the longer you do it, my friend Rafe Colburn put out a brilliant post the other day ou...

There’s an odd tendency in web culture to see all features as obvious, even inevitable. While most of the artifacts of our computing experience have been inven...

One interesting pattern I’ve noticed popping up around my favorite new apps these days is that they follow what I’d call a “cloudtop” design. I thought I’d sha...

In an excellent post about Meg Whitman’s retirement , David Galbraith succinctly summarizes the most important thing about eBay’s potential: Ebay is all a...

WordWeb, a dictionary and thesaurus program for Windows, has a startling and interesting clause in its licensing terms : You may use the program free of...

I try not to ramble on too much about my work, except for a little “I love the people I work with!” post every few months, but I did want to point out one sati...

Rule #1 in nerd blogging: jwz said it first. If you enjoyed The Enterprise, Apple, and Insufficient Ambition last week, you’ll want to read Jamie Zawinski...

Pidgin , formerly GAIM, is the best instant messaging client available; It works with all common IM networks, supports extensions and customizations through p...

One of the interesting things about being a serious Windows user is that very little attention is paid to efficient users of Windows, and that we suffer from a...

Short and sweet, the Ribbon and new UI in Microsoft Office 2007 is** the ballsiest new feature in the history of computer software**. I’ve been using O...

Holy cow! Movable Type 3.2 is finally released, after tons and tons of hard work by the whole team. I’m always excited when we release new stuff at Six Apa...

I only mentioned this in passing in my post about accountability the other day, but the choices all of us make when creating software, or when finding new wa...

Just a short while after the story of Audion, the Graphing Calculator Story . People who are passionate about software make sense to me, even if Mac zealots d...

Panic’s story of Audion is truly beautiful, a great narrative that can only come from people who love making software. Also not to be missed is the post fro...

A young up-and-coming researcher named Clay Shirky has just published Flaming and the Design of Social Software , which I think is useful in that it talks abo...

The conventional wisdom with a lot of the software industry is that Microsoft can just bundle any reasonably decent application into the Office suite, even i...

I keep returning to the concept that software provides an environment for creativity, and that these tools create a context for the content we create within th...

I’ve always been pretty platform-neutral, so Apple’s little announcements are only of marginal interest to me. But the idea of developing a digital communicati...

Baseline does a nice job of documenting Hershey’s recovery from a disastrous SAP implementation that left them ill-prepared in 1999 for the biggest cho...

Microcontent is information published in short form, with its length dictated by the constraint of a single main topic and by the physical and technical limita...

Just in time for a Halloween scare, a new piece in magazine , Microsoft’s Weblog Software . Your feedback is welcomed....

Apple is committing a grave folly in not taking advantage of their tight OS/hardware integration. People forget just how much one can do with well-integrated h...

The wily folks at Traction have positioned their new enterprise content management system as weblog software. I’m a strong believer that weblogs are a natura...

Netscan is an experimental software package designed to aid in the sociological study of the Internet being developed by Marc Smith , a research sociologist...

TurboTax is the best web application ever ever ever ! And I don’t recommend it because Jason said he liked it. Ohhh, no. I used it because Meg recommende...

I’m kinda perplexed why CNET’s download site lets people post spam tools in their email utilities section. You get descriptions like: AnyMailer is bulk...

Now comes The Baggage Factor in which Victor Stone calls out Joel “On Software” Spolsky , but in doing so most reveals more about what he hates in his own...

I read Joel’s essay Fire And Motion the day it came out about three weeks ago. I’ve re-read it almost every day since. It’s the most concise, accurate, artic...

"…and the cruel irony was, I was looking for a web-based project management app !"...

Microsoft turned 25 yesterday. I turn 25 today....

Now this is some scary software ....

Courtesy of Lake Effect (from whom I steal more links….) comes a nice ChiTrib article on how software development became such a big industry in India . Wh...

From ZDNet : Microsoft to include Hindi in Win2000 Microsoft Corp.’s (Nasdaq: MSFT) Windows 2000 software platform, due to be launched in February, will...

Back at it again… For those who don’t know, I’m from Pennsylvania, with my hometown being about 20 minutes from Hershey,PA , famous as Chocolatetown, USA ....