Google Wave's Failure: OT, Aaron Iba & the Taskade Lineage (2026)

Logan Kilpatrick on Twitter / X

We just shipped an infinite canvas in Google AI Studio so you can quickly prototype with the Gemini API, say hello to starter apps V2!The team has put so much effort into making this experience possible and it is an early glimpse of where we are going: https://t.co/0c9pE6hF9I pic.twitter.com/W5BrNSTKBo— Logan Kilpatrick (@OfficialLoganK) April 16, 2025

WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools

WAVE® is a suite of evaluation tools that helps authors make their web content more accessible to individuals with disabilities. WAVE can identify many accessibility and Web Content Accessibility Guideline (WCAG) errors, but also facilitates human evaluation of web content. Our philosophy is to focus on issues that we know impact end users, facilitate human evaluation, and to educate about web accessibility.

A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging apps

Sixteen years after the launch of Google Talk, Google messaging is still a mess.

Apple takes on Google & Microsoft with iWork real-time collaboration | TechCrunch

Announced at Apple's event today, the company takes on Google Documents with real-time collaboration on iWork documents. The long-awaited feature makes it easier to cooperate on creating documents on the fly.

Wave: Small Business Software - Wave Financial

Create beautiful invoices, accept online payments, and make accounting easy—all in one place—with Wave’s suite of money management tools.

Josh Miller on Twitter / X

Another @browsercompany update for the Swift folks...While developing Dia, we continued to invest in Swift on Windows & Android (thanks to @compnerd & team). More on Dia for Windows soon (we learned a lot of lessons from Arc). But lots of exciting progress in recent months: pic.twitter.com/d96qhDd0FA— Josh Miller (@joshm) June 11, 2025

WWDC25: Apple’s Playing a Different Game - Creative Strategies

Before WWDC, Bloomberg said Apple’s AI efforts need to “catch up to leaders like OpenAI and Google.” This assumes Apple is running the same AI race as OpenAI and Google. Is it? And after WWDC, The Wall Street Journal declared that “Apple fails to clear a low bar on AI”. This implies a clear standard that Apple failed to

With Gemini 3.5 Flash, Google bets its next AI wave on agents, not chatbots | TechCrunch

Google launched Gemini 3.5 Flash, its most powerful coding and agentic AI model yet, at the company's annual developer conference. It is capable of autonomously executing complex tasks and building software from scratch.

Signal Developer Explains Why Early Encrypted Messaging Tools Flopped

'The intuition was to take the complexity and push it onto the user,' Moxie Marlinspike says at Black Hat. 'We were just wrong.'

Google Reader was building the wrong future

The app that taught us to directly follow our favorite creators.

Why Apple and Google are struggling to design simple software

Is Apple losing its crown as the champion of simplicity? Maybe. But for a very good reason.

The new Surf browser shows why everyone’s trying to connect AI to the web

A startup called Deta built a browser with a chatbot that can help you browse, organize, and understand the entire internet. It’s very cool.

Former Apple Developer Explains Why The Company's Software Is Struggling - BGR

In recent months, Apple's software development has been called into question like never before. Between a critical security bug in macOS, a brand-new product being…

Lee Robinson on Twitter / X

Watch a timelapse of GPT-5.2 building a browser!Both websites start out barely working, and then after millions of lines of code, the browser actually works.Pretty cool experiment with long-running agents. https://t.co/KT6HgHEivA pic.twitter.com/8EPbyih8cU— Lee Robinson (@leerob) January 14, 2026