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My 10 Favorite Free Apps and Services of 2020
As a companion to my 10 favorite paid apps and sevices of the year, here are 10 apps and services
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My 10 Favorite Paid Apps and Services of 2020
Note: This video is *not* sponsored in any way. Everything I list if something I truly enjoy, not something I
Game
CD Projekt Red Wrecked their Reputation in One Fell Swoop
I don’t write about gaming a ton on this site, but the circumstances around CD Projekt Red and Cyberpunk
Birch Bark Issue 45 Preview
Below is the 45th issue of my Birch Bark newsletter, which I started back in February of this year. I
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And the Award goes To…
When I worked at Target, there was a list of 16 or so “personal leadership qualities” we worked from whenever
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Fitness Totals: A Simple App For Tracking Your…Fitness
Fitness Totals is out today and is a pretty cool app for seeing how you're doing in your
covid-19
The COVID Vaccines are Engineering Triumphs
One of the Greatest Feats in Human History - Synapse
The reason this vaccine didn’t take as long isn’
Apple
An 800ppi iPhone Display (or, why AirPods Max look lovely, but aren’t for me)
The original iPhone had a 3.5” display at 480x320px resolution, or 163 points per inch (ppi). The iPhone 12
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Having a Product or Support Mindset About Software
One of my favorite things to post are concepts for how Apple could improve their platforms in the future. Sometimes
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The Best Explanation of RAW Photography I’ve Ever Seen
Understanding ProRAW. A journey into cameras, RAW, and a look… | by Ben Sandofsky | Dec, 2020 | Halide
To understand what makes
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A New Feature I'd Like to See, Enabled by ProRAW
ProRAW enables a lot of power in users, but it also allows Apple to get a little more creative in
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The “Force Closing Apps Makes Your iPhone Faster” of Macs
Is Google Chrome slowing down your Mac performance? - 9to5Mac
What piqued my interest was the technical side of this
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iPhone 12 Pro Review: 2 Months Later
I've been using the iPhone 12 Pro for just about 2 months now, and wanted to share my
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Google Chrome F.U.D.
Chrome Is Bad | Hacker News
It's a single anecdote that deleting Chrome on two computers sped them up.
Cloudflare's Web Analytics Tool is Solid, but it's Not a Google Analytics Replacement for Most
Cloudflare released their new web analytics feature to all users this week, and as a reluctant Google Analytics user, I
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The Portrayal of OCD in Black Swan
The Portrayal of OCD in Darren Aronofsky's 'Black Swan'
Nina is a fascinating and nuanced portrayal
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Providing “Balance” to the M1 Optimism
Daring Fireball: M1 Macs: Truth and Truthiness
Patrick Moorhead’s M1 Mac review can be paraphrased as “Intel and AMD
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A First Look at Typefully, a Beautiful Web App for Posting Threads to Twitter
Typefully is a new web app that lets you tweet, either single messages or whole threads, from a beautiful interface