Jay Peters

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Jay PetersSep 6, 2023

Molly Holzschlag, an advocate for the open web, has died.

Holzschlag, who reported on music for the Tucson Weekly in the 1990s, founded Open Web Camp, a Silicon Valley event that ran from 2009-2013, and was a leader of the Web Standards Project in the years before that. That group successfully pushed browser developers, including Microsoft, Opera and Netscape, to adopt web standards. More than once, she challenged Bill Gates face-to-face to fix problems with Internet Explorer.

She was 60 years old. Some users on Hacker News had some very kind words about her and her contributions to the web.

Tucson's Molly Holzschlag, known as 'the fairy godmother of the web,' dead at 60 | Obituary

[TucsonSentinel.com]

Clubhouse reinvents itself as an audio messaging app

Jay PetersSep 6, 2023

Pixel phones are getting yet another Android 14 beta build.

Android 14 Beta 5.3 is rolling out now with a handful of fixes and tweaks. Check out the list of updates in 9to5Google’s article.

Android 14 Beta 5.3 rolling out with more Pixel bug fixes

[9to5Google]

Jay PetersSep 6, 2023

OpenAI is hosting its first developer conference in November.

OpenAI DevDay takes place on November 6th. “The one-day event will bring hundreds of developers from around the world together with the team at OpenAI to preview new tools and exchange ideas,” OpenAI writes. There’s an in-person component, but the company will livestream its keynote.

The company says that “over 2 million developers” use GPT-4, GPT 3.5, DALL-E, and Whisper for “a wide range of use cases.”

Jay PetersSep 6, 2023

Support Tumblr, get a badge.

The platform is offering new “Supporter” subscriptions, and depending on what you pay and how long you pay it, you’ll get an increasingly-fancier badge. “Part of a move towards a more user-led business model, this is a new auto-renewable subscription that allows you to wear your support of Tumblr in style,” Tumblr writes.

You can also still buy blue checkmarks, if you want to do that.

New YouTube face just dropped

Jay PetersSep 6, 2023

Steam is going to make it easier to find which PC games support PlayStation controllers.

Developers can now specify if their games support PS4 or PS5 controllers, and beginning in October, you’ll be able to see in the Steam store and in the Steam desktop app if a game works well with those gamepads.

The PS5’s DualSense is maybe my favorite controller ever, so I’m really happy about this.

Steam :: Steamworks Development :: New: Tell Steam If Your Game Supports DualShock or DualSense Controllers

[steam]