Our family in Minnesota knows we worry about them, and so yesterday they sent a family-wide email. This is surely one of many thousands like it. Maybe you’ve written one of these. Maybe you will write one of these. Below is the email from Jen (with permission and with original formatting): Update from MN Hello...

On the NetNewsWire blog I’ve just announced NetNewsWire 6.2 for Mac and iOS. This release is almost entirely bug fixes — but it does add a couple small features and one potentially interesting one: it now supports Markdown in RSS (via the source:markdown element). Read all about it on the NetNewsWire blog. (And now...

Tim Bray writes, on Mastodon, I think correctly: The canceling of ICEBlock is more evidence, were any needed, that the Web is the platform of the future, the only platform without a controlling vendor. Anything controversial should be available through a pure browser interface. This is not the first time I’ve had...

In the ’90s and early 2000s I worked for UserLand Software — Dave Winer was founder and CEO — on a Mac app called UserLand Frontier. The app was a scripting system and hash-table-oriented database that powered the early blogging and podcasting worlds. (That sounds grand, but it’s probably an understatement — but...