Authentication for Next.js — Update June 2020 The next generation version NextAuth.js was released in June 2020! It is built for Next.js and Serverless, with simple configuration, out of the box support for a large number of authentication services and supports MySQL, Postgres, MSSQL and MongoDB — or can be used without needing a database! Find detailed…

A web based tool for video and audio transcription, translation, captioning and video creation. — Less than a month ago we released the first public version of our automated video transcription and translation tool Mercury, supported by prototype funding from the Google Digital News Initiative. We now have hundreds of registered users and hundreds of videos uploaded. This is a progress update on how things…

A guide to using Docker for the first time. — This guide was origionally written as internal documentation, before Docker Community Edition for Windows and Mac was published. Docker Community Edition is the easiest and most robust way to run Docker on Windows or Mac, as it does most of the setup work for you. This guide is useful for…

Update: We are looking at rolling the exploratory work we’ve done on this into another project we are working on with a larger team! We recently picked a “Smart Editor” as as one of the project we’d like to work on. …

The approach Facebook and Google are taking to False News, how they differ, how it could be improved and how publishers can help — This week at the International Journalism Festival in Italy we’ve heard from Facebook about what they are doing to tackle what they are calling False News in their News Feed. Terminology False News a term Facebook have adopted that’s intended to a better job than the more familiar term “Fake News”…