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Apple's Continued March to USB-C Everything
A site called 52audio is reporting a few things about AirPods Pro 2, including that they will have USB-C for charging rather than Lightning. Assuming this rumor is true:
1. Lightning is annoying when all other new tech has USB-C, and Apple's move to bring USB-C to all of their
The 4 Daily Games I'm Playing Everyday
2022 has seen a whole raft of Wordle-style daily games crop up, and while not all of them have
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"One Day…" Promises
An article about podcasting, Bitcoin, and payments?! You know I had to comment!
Apple did a nice job keeping a hands-off approach to the market and letting third-party apps innovate where they could. What remained was an open protocol (RSS) that allowed anyone to subscribe to any show in any app. Good times
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The Steam Summer Game Sale is On, Here are 9 Mac Games You Should Consider
The Mac isn't a good gaming platform, but that doesn't mean there aren't some good games that have been ported to the platform. Today I've got 9 great games you can run on your Mac today and that are on sale on Steam right now. I'
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Apps That Actually Deliver on Their Marketing B.S.
We all know that feeling of seeing an ad for an app, thinking it looks smooth and generally delightful to
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40 Years of Diminishing Confidence
Ian Millhiser: The case against the Supreme Court of the United States
The Dobbs decision is the culmination of a decades-long effort by Republicans to capture the Supreme Court and use it, not just to undercut abortion rights but also to implement an unpopular agenda they cannot implement through the democratic process.
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The Safari Downloads Window Needs Opacity 100%
This is what Safari's download window has looked like for years on macOS. It's pretty well
Overreach and Second-Order Effects
From a thread on Reddit about today’s Supreme Court decision, "The Supreme Court has overturned Roe V. Wade. How do you feel?":
Our fertility doctor has informed us that he will no longer provide services to me and my wife given the higher chance of needing a medically necessary abortion. Any stillborn
One Reason Obsidian is So Amazing
Here's a relatively innocuous video of Obsidian:
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What makes this so amazing is that from within Obsidian for my iPhone, I was able to check for updates to my third party plugins and install those plugins right from the phone.
And not only did they install here, but because of
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A Bit Too Much Liberty, Apparently
From Axios:
"The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe and Casey are overruled; and the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives," Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the 6-3 ruling.
I look forward to all the conservative states who have been screaming about
Everyone Uses Google Analytics Because Everything Else is Effing Expensive
Oh, and Google Analytics is easy to set up and provides a ton of data in a reliable web interface, but the cost is really the thing that I think puts it over the top.
I use Google Analytics on this site, and every now and again I take a look to see what I
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I Gotta Golf in London
This Canary Wharf minigolf installation in London looks amazing. You gotta love things created purely to create joy.
Hat tip
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Literally Everything New in iOS 16
Jeff Benjamin has a reputation for making extensive videos about what's new in iOS, iPadOS, and macOS every year, and in his first real video for his new indie channel Cellular, he went all out. Here's two and a half hours of super high-quality walkthroughs. Enjoy!
P.S. Yes, there
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My Tiniest Beef with Mail
Mail for iOS and Mac got a few solid updates, which means I had to give it a shot on
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Private Access Tokens (and how reCAPTCHA 2 and 3 are different)
Jana Iyengar: Private Access Tokens: stepping into the privacy-respecting, CAPTCHA-less future we were promised
Private Access Tokens are an alternative to CAPTCHAs for supported client platforms. They use careful application of cryptography and requirements to guarantee that a website learns only exactly what it needs to know about a user in order to
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The Current "Longest Strawman Argument Article" of 2022 is…
Alice Gribbin: The Empathy Racket
Asking artworks to teach people lessons means asking those who engage art to see themselves as morally wanting. As a circumscribed expectation of an art encounter, empathy burdens the mind. The imperative that one corral one’s feelings in a single direction is spirit-smothering, tyrannous.
There may be some
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Glassdoor Alert: Employer Legal Action
Ryan Mac: Inside a Corporate Culture War Stoked by a Crypto C.E.O.
“Kraken is the perfect allegory for
For the First Time in 15 Years, the Most Exciting New Apps I Use are Web-First
"Planner" apps are getting a lot of attention in the productivity space right now, and the general idea of them is that they can be your calendar as well as your task manager all in one place. They often sport a bunch of integrations as well to pull in data from other sources
