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Putting the Days to Bed (365 Albums)
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I'm Once Again Defending Like Buttons
Jeannie McGeehan: The Problem With the Favorite Button
I now understand the problem with the favorite button and the path of least resistence. It removes genuine interaction and replaces it with a convenient click. It also creates an inappropriate response situation with regard to certain post topics.
Sometimes I feel like I'm on
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The Definitive Guide to Mastodon
Paul Stamatiou: Mastodon
I no doubt expect Elon to reverse some of his decisions from the regular backlash from users and press, but there’s no trust anymore. Even if a new CEO or a new owner is announced, I don’t know if Twitter can ever be truly trusted again. Fool me once, shame
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Hi, Everything’s Great (365 Albums)
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GREY Area (365 Albums)
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For Emma, Forever Ago (365 Albums)
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Celebration Rock (365 Albums)
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Hometowns (365 Albums)
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Bold (and sometimes boring) Predictions for Apple in 2023
Just for fun, here's a bunch of what I think will happen with most of Apple's product lines in 2023. None of these are crazy, except my HomePod one which I just couldn't stop adding onto 😂
iPhone 15
A relatively minor upgrade once again, but USB-C will make
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Maybe We Need more Bubbles
Unexpectedly, I'm already linking to something about bubbles again! Here's Noah Smith in The Internet Wants to Be Fragmented:
When I first got access to the internet as a kid, the very first thing I did was to find people who liked the same things I liked — science fiction novels and
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You're Not in a Bubble, That's Whay You're So Mad
Greg Morris: Can We Try to Remember How to Disagree Please?
There is also a real issue of the bubbles we all live in now. Social media algorithms creates a space where we see posts and updates that we agree with. YouTube and Netflix force content on us that we will like, and issues arise
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The Wild Hunt (365 Albums)
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Apologies to the Queen Mary (365 Albums)
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If Blogging Surges in 2023, Then That's One Thing I Can Thank Elon For
Monique Judge: Bring Back Personal Blogging
Watching the demise of Twitter under the helm of Elon Musk has made me nostalgic for the personal blogging days. The decline of Twitter with the current erosion of legacy media has left me thinking we need to bring personal blogging back with a vengeance.
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The biggest reason
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Going from Three Codebases to One
Standard Notes: No, React Native Is Not the Future
When we first launched in late 2016, we started with three codebases: our web app (which our Electron desktop app contained), a native Swift iOS app, and a native Kotlin Android app. This was immediately untenable. Coordinating bug fixes across three platforms was hard enough, but
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Contra (365 Albums)
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The Birchtree Newsletter, January 2023
Happy new year! I'm sending this one out a bit early just for fun. Enjoy your new year's and here's to an excellent 2023 🎉
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The Web is Eating My Mac AliveJason Snell: My social media is in an Mac app, or it’s nowhere Likewise, my use
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Hot Fuss (365 Albums)
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