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Sway Interview Highlights with Dr. Ashish Jha and Emily Oster
This is an experiment with a new series where I pull out some good quotes from podcast episodes I think
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What Will Apple’s HomePod with a Screen Look Like?
Parker Ortolani has this cool concept on 9to5Mac:
Rumors have been floated about Apple making a HomePod with a display but word on the street is that the product being tested looks a lot like an iPad mounted to a speaker. Instead of making a Frankenstein product very similar to Google and Amazon’s products,
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When is a Product Delayed?
John Gruber on a Bloomberg article stating Apple "pushed back" their VR headset to 2023:
It’s a semantic argument, but “pushed back” feels fair for an unannounced product. Shipping is hard, COVID makes everything harder. “Delayed” and “setback” don’t feel fair, though. When it actually does get announced, do we get
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Social Media Safe Spaces
Elaine Godfrey writing for The Atlantic:
In Arizona this weekend, 51-year-old Tammy Shutts put it this way to me: “100 percent, 1,000 percent, 1 million percent Biden didn’t win” her state, she said, gesturing to the hordes of people around her. “I’ve been in Arizona for almost 21 years. There
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Google Pixel 6 First Impressions
I've found my way into a Google Pixel 6 (non-pro) and after using it for a week-
Nine Nine! (Newsletter #99)
Happy Friday, everyone!
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* Must…play: WaPo has a mini-golf game created using gerrymandered districts around the US.
* Absurdle is the best Wordle remix yet. You have to work this one into a corner 😏
* This week is all about games, apparently, as looptap is a good, mindless time killer.
* "The new normal&
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That's Not a Monopoly
Mike Fahey writing for Kotaku:
While the merging of Microsoft and Activision feels like far too much power being consolidated under one roof, once you understand what a monopoly is, it’s pretty clear this isn’t it.
I'm not an antitrust lawyer by any means, but this seems like the right take
My Worst Take Ever
I was looking through a few posts and found this doozy from 2015:
With this week’s news that Apple is working on a keyboard with literally no moving parts, it hit me like a ton of bricks: of course physical keyboards are on the way out.
And:
Don’t worry if you love a
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The Unbelievable Power of Keyboard Maestro
David Sparks:
I’ve had a lot of questions about the relationship between Keyboard Maestro and Shortcuts for Mac. Specifically, is Shortcuts for Mac going to replace Keyboard Maestro? In a word, no.
Yeah, Shortcuts is great, but Keyboard Maestro is just on another level. David does a great job explaining the difference, and I&
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WordleBot Gets More Accessible
Federico Viticci updated his WordleBot shortcut based on user feedback:
Although well-intentioned, my original approach was misguided: even with
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The Unifying Case for Getting Covid Under Control? Probably not, but It Should Be.
The National Law Enforcement Memorial Fund put out their 2021 End-Of-Year Preliminary Law Enforcement Officers Fatalities Report (PDF) and it leads with:
[A]s of December 31, 2021, 458 federal, state, tribal and local law enforcement officers died in the line-of-duty in 2021. This is an increase of 55% from the
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When the Assholes Show Up
Doodled Dragons takes at least $30,000 after tweeting "our charity will instead now be... my bank account"
They announced on Twitter that they would be donating $30,000, "our first donation", to the World Wildlife Fund. Two hours later, they tweeted, "actually. fuck that. our charity will instead now
How Do You Like Them Wordles? (Newsletter #98)
Happy Friday! Not the biggest week ever, but I'm actually in love with every single item linked below, so I hope you all enjoy them as well. ✌️
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* Fun thread of company logos showing the fonts each uses
* Designers pick the best fonts of 2021
* Similarly, Dan Counsell has a list of
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Programming Should Not Be an Elite Practice
I wasn't going to link this this, but then I got to the last paragraph:
The entry barrier to programming needs to be high! Programming is engineering; it's not something where you throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks and just assume that programming languages, browsers, and operating systems
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When You Don't Show Up to Your Own Product Announcement
Samsung no-showed on its major Exynos 2200 launch and won’t say why | Ars Technica
Samsung pulled a no-call no-show for a major product launch. It's the end of the day now, and the company has yet to respond to what must be hundreds of press inquiries that are no-
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How Dead is RSS? I Looked Into it and Things Seem…Good, Actually
I Miss RSS, by Billy Wilcosky:
RSS is still around but I’m saying I miss it because it’s not everywhere like it once was. It used to be in every web browser, and all major websites, such as Twitter, provided feeds. Then you would install a feed reader on your computer or join
Wordle is Kinda Great
Wordle is a word-based puzzle game that you can play once per day, and everyone plays the same puzzle.
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HomePods + Apple TV: Fun, but I Had to Move On
This was going to be a very long post, but I got bored reading my own post, so I threw