Adam Engst explores the evolution of deep linking on the Web as an introduction to how text fragments now enable precise linking to specific content within Web pages. He also announces that TidBITS will no longer appear on X/Twitter or Facebook due to their negative impact on civil society and outlines many other ways to follow TidBITS content, including now on Bluesky. In ExtraBITS, we point at Matt Sephton’s Macintosh Magazine Media project, which has reached a milestone of preserving 1 million files (many in English) from vintage Japanese Mac magazines. Notable Mac app releases this week include Lightroom Classic 14.3, MarsEdit 5.3.4, SuperDuper 3.10, and Timing 2025.3.
In keeping with our desire to model the behavior we want to see in the world, we have stopped posting TidBITS to X/Twitter and Facebook in protest against the harm they cause to civil society. Many other channels remain available, including Bluesky and Mastodon.
After decades of only being able to link to the top of Web pages or specially prepared named anchors, modern browsers now support text fragment links that can scroll to and highlight any text on any page. This long-awaited feature brings us closer to Ted Nelson’s original vision for hypertext and makes sharing specific information dramatically more efficient.
Watchlist
Introduces a new AI-powered landscape selection feature. ($9.99/$19.99/$59.99 monthly Creative Cloud subscription, free update, macOS 13.1+)
Blogging app improves performance when handling blogs with large numbers of posts. ($59.95 new, free update, 22.4 MB, macOS 10.15.4+)
Makes improvements to backup reliability and user interface. ($27.95 new, free update, 9.6 MB, macOS 10.13+)
Time and productivity tracking app adds support for creating rules that match multiple values. ($108/$132/$192 annual subscriptions, free update, 29.1 MB, macOS 10.15+)
