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There is an Ocean of Possibility Out There for Great Software
The Power and Paradox of Bad Software | WIRED
There are big platforms that help people do all kinds of work.
Matt Birchler
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What if This Got You Excited?
I can sympathize with this story of getting legitimately excited about a game because you see people like you in a video game, but I can’t really empathize with it.
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It’s No Longer in My Dock
This is how I’ve changed with Things as well. It’s my most used app on my iPhone, but it’s icon lives in the app library now. The 2x2 widget shows me how many tasks I have left for the day, as well as the next 4 on my schedule.
Fingerprint Sensors in All the Things
I could be way off about this, but I keep thinking about that Touch ID sensor in the power button
Widgets Are Too Hot!
I've made 2 videos about some of my favorite widgets that have come out since iOS 14 released
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We’re Living Through a Revolution in Note Taking
This feels to me like when the iPhone came out and all other phone makers had to go, “oh, we need to think about things differently, and we absolutely need to steal a bunch of these new ideas because we’re going to get left in the dust if we don’t”.
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Xbox and PlayStation Pre-Orders Have Been a Disaster
Pre-orders for both Sony and Microsoft’s new game consoles have been a mess. Here’s what’s going on.
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The New Apple Watch's Slightly Larger Battery
iFixit Apple Watch Series 6 Teardown Finds Larger Battery and Bigger Taptic Engine in Thinner Casing
Apple is using a
Your Unfair Advantage, and Elevating Above “Good Enough”
We all have things we’re good and bad at in our lives. There isn’t a soul on this
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The Selflessness of Developers
Otto Nagengast:
What do the maintainers get for all of the work, stress, and abuse? Money? Maybe they’re lucky
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Eventually the Problem is Bigger than the Room
The company released version 10 of their app to iOS yesterday, and I for one am looking forward to seeing what they have in store now that they've tamed their back-end woes.
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10 of the Best Widgets I've Found in iOS 14 (so far)
Possibly iOS 14's best new feature, widgets are going to be huge on the iPhone, and today we're looking at some of the best I've found so far.
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RIP Pelaton (or maybe not)
Bradley Chambers:
It’s certainly cheaper to buy your own bike, sign up for Peloton Digital, and just watch the
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Are Devs Justified in Being Upset about iOS 14’s Launch Date? It's Complicated, but Yeah
iOS 6: Sept 19, 2012
iOS 7: Sept 18, 2013
iOS 8: Sept 17, 2014
iOS 9: Sept 16, 2015
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watchOS 7: The BirchTree Review
I've been doing big reviews of watchOS since the beginning, and for the first time, I'm
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Grading My Apple Watch Predictions
3 days ago I made a bunch of predictions about what we'd see from the new Apple Watches
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Time Flies, Apple Watch SE & Series 6, and Apple's Wearable Strategy
https://youtu.be/7REBmSTiFEo
Apple unveiled the next generation of Apple Watches today, and what else could I do but
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OMG OnePlus
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection put out a press release on Friday:
On August 31, CBP officers seized