Move Past Buzzwords
Reddit got some headlines over the weekend with their move to crypto, and the reactions have been exactly what you’
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Don’t Count Out the MacBook Air
The M1 MacBook Air is still the best machine for most people – LJPUK
An Air is around £929 currently and
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Improving My Day-to-Day Workflow for less than $200
I wasn't expecting to write about this but based on the number of texts, DMs, and @ replies I
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The Impact of Monotype Gobbling Up Another Type Foundry
Some are not too pleased with Monotype's recent acquisition of Hoefler&Co:
The impact of H&
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The Best Way to Play Old Video Games Is Unfortunate
People are pretty grumpy about the quality of emulation on Nintendo Switch Online:
One of the draws of the Expansion
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Facebook Switched to a Reverse-Chronological Timeline, Facebook Made More Money, and Users Hated It
Apparently in 2018 Facebook turned off the algorithm for a small percentage of users:
"What happens if we delete
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Is the Lowest End 14" MacBook Pro Worth It?
I compiled real-world benchmarks from how I use my Mac and compared them to the M1 MacBook Air from last
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Apple's Curious Reasoning Why the Mac Doesn't Have Touch
Chance Miller on 9to5Mac quoting Apple's John Ternus in WSJ (paywalled):
We make the world’s best touch
The Most Dramatic, and Somehow Best Take on That Polishing Cloth
The Apple Polishing Cloth Is Everything Wrong With Society - Victoria Song
But the silly dumb thing that makes people
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This Way of Talking About the Web Does it a Great Disservice
Have Single-Page Apps Ruined the Web? | Transitional Apps with Rich Harris (YouTube)
We talk about documents vs apps as thought
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How Stupid is the Metaverse?
It’s easy to scoff at “the metaverse,” and the older you are, the more likely that reaction. After all,
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Galaxy Brain is Moving to The Atlantic
Charlie Warzel on his Substack:
I’m moving Galaxy Brain from Substack over to The Atlantic. The newsletter will exist
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Glass Adds Public Profiles (and RSS!)
Introducing Public Profiles
With Glass 1.2 coming out today, you can now share your Glass Profile anywhere! We’re
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Spotify Takes the Podcasts Crown from Apple
Spotify says US podcast listeners now use its service more than Apple Podcasts | TechCrunch
During the company’s Q3 2021
That's So Meta
Facebook pulled a Google today and created a company to oversee all of their products, and that company is called
It's Okay, Dropbox Will Support Apple Silicon
From a feature request thread asking for a native version (July 2021):
This idea is going to need a bit
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2x Zoom is Awkward on the iPhone 13 Pro
The iPhone 13 Pro line was upgraded with a 3x telephoto lens this year, giving you more "reach"
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The Only Apple Silicon Mac You Probably Shouldn’t Buy
Rogue Amoeba - Under the Microscope » Blog Archive » On The Much Improved State of Macintosh Hardware
In 2018, we couldn’