Social Media make you anxious and unhappy. You check your feed compulsively, but without much pleasure. You just want to spend more time in the real world. Whatever your reason, limiting social media usage is extremely difficult. Those platform are designed to make you spend as much time as possible on them, to make...

Overcast’s latest update (2022.2) brings the largest redesign in its nearly-eight-year history, plus many of the most frequently requested features and lots of under-the-hood improvements. I’m pretty proud of this one. For this first and largest phase of the redesign, I focused on the home screen, playlist screen,...

I've not written much about my most recent book, Social Engineering (MIT Press, 2022) on this blog. It didn't seem like a good topic for this FOSS-centric blog. When I did write about it, I focused on the fact that my co-author, Sean Lawson, and I were able to use FOSS (particularly Nextcloud) to write it. In the...