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Midnights (365 Albums)
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365 Albums
Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers (365 Albums)
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Main Character of the Day on Mastodon
You know how you can become the "main character of Twitter" for a day? Yeah, that same thing happens on Mastodon as well. Yesterday the Raspberry Pie account earned that distinction with a sequence of events summarized here.
Basically, there was a movement on Mastodon to boot Raspberry Pi out of the fediverse
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Hold The Girl (365 Albums)
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Unabashedly Good Apple News
Jim Morrison: Apple Kills Its Plan to Scan Your Photos for CSAM. Here’s What’s Next
At the beginning of September 2021, Apple said it would pause the rollout of the feature to “collect input and make improvements before releasing these critically important child safety features.” In other words, a launch was still coming.
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Laurel Hell (365 Albums)
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The Web is Eating My Mac Alive
Jason Snell: My social media is in an Mac app, or it’s nowhere
Likewise, my use of private social apps like Slack and Discord is magnified by their availability on my Mac as discrete apps rather than bookmarks in Safari. I can launch them or quit them or hide them on their own, and
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Mellow Moon (365 Albums)
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dear amelia (365 Albums)
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Can You Afford To Lose Me? (365 Albums)
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Dawn FM (365 Albums)
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People in Motion (365 Albums)
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Two Ribbons (365 Albums)
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Surrender (365 Albums)
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Every album I post from now through Christmas will be from 2022, so consider this my unsorted list
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The Birchtree Newsletter, December 2022
Welcome to December! Whether you celebrate anything this month or not, I hope you're doing well and are looking for some fun links and videos to start the month off right.
Oh, and given I'm going to be sharing…checks notes…365 albums I like this year, the music section is
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My Top 10 Songs of 2022
Not to turn this into a music-only blog, but I've been looking through my year in music
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The Body, the Blood, the Machine (365 Albums)
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Structural Reasons You Think Open Source Apps are Ugly
Koos Looijesteijn: Why is open source software so badly designed?
Great design isn’t done by picking up a tiny issue and creating a solution for it. It’s done by gaining deep understanding for the problems people have, the context in which they use products and by testing solutions with people. It’s labor-