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It’s cancel Kimmel time again
Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday last week in a skit on his show:
And of course, our first lady, Melania, is here. Look at-- so beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow. You know, Melania's birthday is on Sunday. That's right. She's planning to celebrate at
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600% is the new 2 + 2 = 5
PBS News has a quote from the very intelligent RFK Jr.: Fact-checking RFK Jr.'s claim there's more than one way to calculate a percentage decrease
Kennedy said, "President Trump has a different way of calculating percentages. There's two ways of calculating percentages. If you have a $600
Quick Reads is the future that passkey enthusiasts dream of
I neglected to mention it in the announcement post, but another thing I'm really excited about with Quick Reads is that it's the first app I've made so far that requires users to sign in. I decided if I was going to do it, I was going to do
Quick Reads: I built the read later app I'd always wanted
I'm happy to finally announce Quick Reads is available to everyone in a sort of early access today.
I got the MX Master 4 and I could not be more disappointed
I got an email this morning informing me that my Best Buy credit was about to expire if I didn&
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John Ternus will be Apple's next CEO (starting September 1, 2026)
Apple: Tim Cook to become Apple Executive ChairmanJohn Ternus to become Apple CEO
Under Cook’s leadership Apple has grown from a market capitalization of approximately $350 billion to $4 trillion, representing a more than 1,000% increase, and yearly revenue has nearly quadrupled, from $108 billion in fiscal year 2011 to more than $416
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+ Argue more effectively
You can't cast a whole group of people as "evil" and then be surprised when they don't come around to your side.
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Our computers are just too good
Andy Nicolaides: I’m not a Pro, and that’s okay.
I started to realise recently, but was fully reconciled in my mind after using the MacBook Neo for a few days. The realisation is that, when it comes to my personal devices at least, I’m not a pro and I don’t need
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Quick 🤫 update
An update on my biggest project yet. I swear it's almost ready!
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What if games could be "pretty successful" and not out the developer out of business?
I really loved this quote from John Linneman on a recent Digital Foundry podcast:
There was a time when they could produce games in a moderately sustainable fashion, it seems, and they didn't need to be multi-million sellers. And in fact, the big multi-million sellers could help support this wide range
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No vibe coded visionOS bump
This post on Reddit caught my attention:
Been curious about the state of the visionOS ecosystem so I pulled the
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Will iPadOS 27 bring back split view?
Zac Kew-Denniss: iPadOS 26 multitasking is so bad that I’ve replaced my iPad with an Android tablet
The biggest mistake Apple made in iPadOS 26 was making all of these changes in the iPad’s default mode. I’m the go-to tech support for a large group of older family members and
Where did the MP3s come from?
Nick Vukotic (random person, I don’t vouch for them) on Threads
I love the decade where every major electronics manufacturer was selling mp3 players but no one was asking where the mp3s were coming from
I would love to know what percentage of the music on MP3 players back in the early 2000s was
Chrome, Safari, and battery myths
On this week's Waveform podcast, Marques Brownlee and crew were talking about browsers and a common topic came up:
Safari is only good for one thing, which is battery life.
And:
Commonly accepted facts.
Accepted by who? Lunatics?
I would say ask any browser enthusiast.
And:
I'm on an Apple Silicon
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The "heads I win, tails you lose" mentality
Antonio G. Di Benedetto for The Verge: I tested three Windows laptops in the MacBook Neo’s price range — there’s no contest
Each has an eight-core processor (versus six on the Neo), 16GB of RAM instead of 8GB, and between 256GB and 1TB of storage — the slowest of which is twice the speed
