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How to make Midnight City
M83’s Midnight City is one of my favorite songs of all time, and this video recreating it is brilliant.
My super quick process for adding chapters to podcasts
Chapters in podcasts are super important, in my opinion, and I make sure to add them to everything that I
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When the words on the page don’t match what you’re trying to say (follow up on the Ben Thompson post)
Ben Thompson: Technological Scale and Government Control, Paramount Outbids Netflix for Warner Bros.
This is a lot more complicated than the nuclear question, where government control and ownership was a given; the sort of actions taken by the government over the last week fly in the face of the concept of private decision making and
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Apple's new MacBooks: The pinnacle of the generation
Apple announced new MacBook Airs and Pros today, and they’re both boring and mostly excellent.
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This looks
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Apple's new Studio Displays
Apple updated both of their monitors today, replacing the Studio Display with a new model that's very similar
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"What are you going to do, stop me? I've got the guns," is a wild government argument for tech pundits to support
Over the last couple weeks, Anthropic and the Department of War have been engaged in a war of words over something very exciting: terms of use. Anthropic, as a private company, has created a product and reasonably established terms of use for it. However, the Department of War doesn't want to adhere to
Continuity Camera is so freaking cool, I wish it fit better into my work
About a week ago, I switched on my Canon R6 and went to record something on video. I have the
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The M4 iPad Air: an update so small, the Bluetooth version gets a shout out
In addition to the new iPhone 17e, Apple also announced a new iPad Air, now powered by the M4 processor.
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The iPhone 17e
Last year I was among the more positive people about the iPhone 16e. I spent a couple weeks using it
Announcing Weave, a native iOS app for Typefully
I'm happy to announce the release of my new app, Weave. As is often the case with my
Why killing iPadOS isn't what you think it is
In the second episode of the A Better Computer podcast, I talk more about how I think "killing iPadOS&
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Micro app 11: JXR to JPG converter
Resident Evil Requiem came out this past week, and I was very excited to start playing it. It genuinely might
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+ Tim Cook's "refrigerator-toaster combo" quote is irrelevant today, stop using it
In fact, making the Mac a refrigerator-toaster combo would reduce the number of things it's able to do.
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Daft Punk & Stevie Wonder & Pharrell & Nile Rogers get lucky
I don't have anything to say other than you're welcome for finding the best 5 minutes of YouTube you'll see today.
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Anthropic does the bare minimum, but these days that's impressive
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War
The Department of War has stated they will only contract with AI companies who accede to “any lawful use” and remove safeguards in the cases mentioned above. They have threatened to remove us from their systems if we maintain
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Blender for the iPad is on hold (it was also keyboard+mouse first, not touch first)
In a GitHub comment back in January, Blender's Dalai Felinto gave this update on the Blender for iPad project:
FYI I just updated the task description to mention that this project is on hold.
[…] we are putting this project on hold for now. The team will instead focus on the Android tablets first
Soon, everything will be an iPad
Over the weekend, my Apple will kill iPadOS article caused some feelings, to say the least. The post title was meant to catch eyes, and it did, but I also think that it brought people into the article with the wrong energy. They were ready to fight, and read my (admittedly hastily written) post ready
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Block is making more profit than ever, so they're firing 40% of their employees
Jack Dorsey on Twitter: we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company.
we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving.
Apparently also
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