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The Perfect Currency for a Fraud-Free World
This interview is pretty long, but it's worth a read. This bit stood out to me because it really does show the scale we're dealing with when it comes to Bitcoin.
The problem with the Global Public Square is that it is a single, limited entity, and you have only so
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Sometimes There Aren't Words
Internet Blue: Disregard the Words
Yet looking back on the last decade or two, the most transformative consumer products – and generational changes in behavior – have often been the most difficult to describe. The ones where words escaped us initially.
This is a really good article about how things like Notion, Snapchat, and the iPhone are
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The Dark Side of Celebrity Fandom
Kaitlyn Tiffany: Johnny Depp and the Dark Side of Celebrity Fandom
Depp supporters have also suggested that Heard’s daughter, Oonagh, who was born via surrogate last year, is secretly the child of Elon Musk, and that Musk has some larger role to play in an immense conspiracy.
I'm only vaguely following along
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Zelda, Fonts, and Magic (Newsletter #112)
Happy…late Friday! I've decided that in order to avoid burnout, I need to be more flexible with this newsletter, and this week that means doing a late-Friday edition, which is just more fun anyway, right?!
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* Want to play the original Zelda in your browser? Why not?!
* Bakewell is a
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A Haven for Forbidden Apps
Jared Newman: How AltStore is building a haven for forbidden iPhone apps
“You would think that allowing high performance apps would be to Apple’s benefit as they keep making more and more powerful iPads, but the state of (allowed) iPad software has been stagnant,” says UTM’s developer, who goes by the pseudonym Osy.
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Dogecoin is Going to the Moon on WordPress!
I saw this headline,455 Million WordPress Websites Can Now Accept Dogecoin, and of course I had to see what this was all about.
According to DogeDesigner, a UX/UI specialist and graphic designer at Dogecoin Foundation, millions of WordPress websites can now accept Dogecoin using the WooCommerce plugin "Easy Dogecoin Gateway" built
A Fandom That Doesn’t Want Me
This post is a day late, but all the Star Wars talk yesterday and the new Obi-Wan Kenobi trailer got me thinking about where I am with Star Wars right now. I was about 12 years old when I first saw A New Hope, and I’ve been a huge fan of the franchise
Just Like the 5th Most Popular Bar in Town, Twitter Isn’t the Town Square
Some people like to call Twitter, “the modern town square,” and that this distinction means that everyone should be able to talk there, everyone should be able to say what they’d like, and any limits on those things is censorship.
I understand this argument to an extent. I’ve personally said that one of
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God This is Late! (Newsletter #111)
Happy Friday and man, it's been a bit! The combination of work, moving into a house, YouTube, and my freelance work have just made it so something had to give, and sadly this newsletter drew the short straw.
I hope you all like the tweets and videos, because I'm just going
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Android Apps on Windows are a Match Made in Hell
Will Sattelberg: Android apps on Windows 11 review: Not like this
You can fill all of these absences elsewhere on Windows 11. Many of these titles have versions on Steam or the web — you don't need the Android version of Among Us to play on Windows. The same goes for those missing apps,
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How to Not Lose Your Mind These Days
Noah Smith: How to stay optimistic in these dark times
I’d like to think about what it means to be optimistic, and then think about how we can craft an intentional strategy for national (and personal) optimism.
A good read if only to remind yourself of some good news and that it's
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The iPad is for Everyone
Numeric Citizen: Where Should The iPad Go From Here?
The iPad form factor dictates the rest of the story: the iPad cannot meet everybody’s needs with the same ease as a traditional portable because of its form factor AND the design decisions Apple made about its interaction models; iPadOS isn’t macOS.
I agree
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The Opposite of Small Business Saturday
On a pretty regular basis I’ll see someone write a thread or blog post about why they’re switching to all stock iPhone apps. The dream seems to be throwing all third party apps to the side and going all in on Apple stuff.
Everyone is of course allowed to do whatever they want,
I’ve Had It With This Guy
Alexander Burns: ‘I’ve Had It With This Guy’: G.O.P. Leaders Privately Blasted Trump After Jan. 6
In the days after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol building, the two top Republicans in Congress, Representative Kevin McCarthy and Senator Mitch McConnell, told associates they believed President Trump was responsible for inciting the
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iPad Needs to Go Better When Bigger
Mark Gurman:
And, most importantly, a new “pro” mode that kicks in when the iPad is connected to a keyboard and trackpad, such as Apple’s own Magic Keyboard, or an external display.
This is an alternate to the studioOS idea I had a few weeks ago, and I don't personally like this
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1Password, KeePass, and Humanity
Josh Centers: Moving from 1Password to KeePass
If all this sounds like I left a smooth and perfectly functional app for a hodgepodge of cobbled-together solutions, it’s because I did. But now that I’ve hashed out the kinks, it works pretty well. I’ve created and changed several passwords on both my
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Why Pebble Failed
Eric Migicovsky, the founder of Pebble, on why Pebble failed:
The underlying problem was that we shifted from making something we knew people wanted, to making an ill-defined product that we hoped people wanted.
The whole read is worth your time, but Pebble gets tons of credit from me for validating that the smart