Minor update to Quick Reviews
Last night I pushed an update to Quick Reviews to make 2 changes:
1. The reset buttons on the color,
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The Apple Pencil lineup is doing what we should have all expected
Back in May when the latest iPad Pros were announced, there was some consternation about how the Apple Pencil story
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Productivity apps won’t do your work for you, but they can still help
Casey Newton many weeks ago: Three apps that made me more productive this year
A year ago this week, I
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Remember, the computers don’t think
Kyle Orland for ArsTechnica: Apple study exposes deep cracks in LLMs’ “reasoning” capabilities
The results of this new GSM-Symbolic paper
Home Depot is finally rolling out contactless payments (yes, the "finally" is warranted")
Steven Aquino writing for Forbes: Home Depot’s Rollout Of Apple Pay Reminds Apple Pay, Accessibility Are One
My friend
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How to set up author tags on Mastodon
Mastodon recently added the ability to natively add author labels to links on Mastodon. Basically, when a link is posted,
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Mujjo iPhone 16 Pro case and wallet review
Last year, I thought Mujjo’s iPhone cases were excellent. I thought they were so good that when I realized
This photo is 2 megapixels
Above is a photo I took of the Statue of Liberty last night from a boat. It looks pretty good,
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A week removed (members post)
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Nothing beats familiarity when it comes to "good UX" (members post)
"Good UX" means balancing a lot of (sometimes conflicting) priorities. What's good UX when you can't make everyone happy?
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I’ve written 1 million words in the past 8 years
I was getting the feeling lately that I’ve been writing a lot here lately, and I already had an
Dare to dream
Apparently the last week of online discourse around Meta’s new Orion prototype struck a nerve with me because I
Why is anyone talking about Meta’s Orion glasses?
Good lord am I seeing a lot people talking about Meta’s new prototype hardware, Orion. Are people losing their
NotebookLM tries to pin me down
NotebookLM is an interesting project from Google that lets you upload a ton of documents about whatever you want, and
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They lasered my eyes (or, why I’m so happy I got Lasik, members post)
I got Lasik 2 years ago and here’s how it’s going.
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You never know what’s going to hit
Lee Peterson: Sometimes It Takes Just One Random Post to Grow Your Blog
This was completely random and it shows
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X does that thing again, but it’s totally chill this time
Elizabeth Lopatto writing for The Verge: X blocks links to hacked JD Vance dossier
X is preventing users from posting
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The core thing that makes WordPress, WordPress isn’t what you think
This might be the longest quote ever on Birchtree, but stick with me here. This is Matt Mullenwerg, CEO of