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How Twitter Changes My Brain
It recently dawned on me that I've used Twitter basically every day for over a decade, and while
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Focus, but in Reverse
Rani Molla writing for Recode:
Even people who work on this sort of stuff for a living had trouble with Focus. Vanessa Bowen, a user experience designer who specializes in design systems, says she appreciates Apple’s minimal design but missed a psychiatric appointment when she turned on the personal version of Focus, which lets
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The Cringe
I touched on it yesterday, but Casey Newton wrote a lengthy piece, The hard truth about Truth Social, and I had too many highlights not to share.
What else is there to say about Truth Social? It’s based on technology from Mastodon, the open-source social network. Its parent company, Trump Technology & Media
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What Was Hard is Now Totally Simple
Julia Evans: Things that used to be hard and are now easy
I was talking to some friends the other day about the types of conference talks we enjoyed. One category we came up with was “you know this thing that used to be super hard? Turns out now it’s easy and anyone can
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This is the Truth
The Verge reporting on Trump's social network launching today:
As of this writing, Truth Social’s website is loading intermittently, but collecting names and email addresses for users who wish to sign up. Notably, the site is not secured through HTTPS, which means any information submitted will be visible to intermediaries on the
It’s an Art Form
Apple teamed up with Park Chan-wook (dir. Oldboy) to create a short film that's pretty good, you should watch it.
The film was of course shot entirely on the latest iPhones, and while most of it seems to be shot normally (and in Filmic Pro), it does make good use of Cinematic
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Come on, Kanye
Kanye West on Instagram:
Donda 2 will only be available on my own platform, the Stem Player. Not on Apple Amazon Spotify or YouTube. Today artists get just 12% of the money the industry makes. It’s time to free music from this oppressive system. It’s time to take control and build our own.
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Apple Could Make Podcasting Better for Everyone
John Gruber: Nilay Patel and Walt Mossberg on Spotify’s Ambitions to Dominate Podcasting
Apple’s not doing nothing in the podcast space, but it seems to me that their Apple Podcasters Program that launched last year hasn’t really had much of an uptake. I could be wrong about that. But even if Apple’
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What if Apple Ran Their Physical Stores Like their App Store?
Jason Snell: Apple's worst-case scenario might be the best thing for the iPhone
A no-longer-exclusive App Store might tighten its rules and become more opinionated. It might even be more willing to reject shady developers, blast scam apps, and decline certain types of apps altogether. Apple acts as if today’
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Gone Full Electric (Newsletter #103)
Happy Friday! Just a normal update today, although intrepid readers will notice the tweets aren't here. I'm taking a week off Twitter, so sadly one of the downsides is I don't have anything fun to share with you all but rest assured they'll be back in good
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My 2021 Report Card for Apple
Jason Snell does his excellent Apple report card every year, and while I wasn’t invited (Jason, call me 😊), the report card has been rattling around in my head since it came out and I wanted to add my takes, so consider this a write-in ballot.
As a reminder to those unfamiliar, the report
iOS Should Support Variable Fonts
Getting custom fonts onto your iPhone and iPad is still super janky, and apps like iFont still have to use
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A Unified Code Base
1Password is adding tools to generate and store SSH keys, which is lovely, but this thread on Hacker News expressed concern with how it was implemented. In response, someone from the 1Password team had their devs implement a fix quickly.
We spoke about it internally many times in the past but couldn't get
Raycast is an Insanely Powerful Mac App
I recently discovered Raycast, a free app launcher for macOS. It's in the vein of Alfred, but is
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Your NFT is Probably a Copy of a Copy of a Copy… (even if it's legit)
Slidebean's latest video about NFTs:
You can take Paul's Photoshop file and copy it, reproduce it, and it wouldn't lose a single pixel of quality, but there's still only one original file; the one that Paul Campion worked on when he was producing Lord of the Rings
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My Mini Pixel 6 Review
I'm not going to do a full review of the phone, but a few thoughts I wanted to
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In 2022, Cloud Gaming Should be Additive, Not the Whole Product
Kingdom Hearts Fans Aren't Happy With The Switch Cloud Releases - George Foster
Towards the end of Sora's Super Smash Bros. Ultimate reveal trailer, Square added another tease for Kingdom Hearts fans - all of the games up until that point coming to the Nintendo Switch. There was one catch though, that they
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Why I Absolutely Love the Web!
I wanted to gush about how great the web is, so here’s a few of thing things that really