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What Did We Just Watch?
Can someone explain to me how this week’s presidential debate was anything more than an embarrassment? Can someone tell
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The DuckDuckGo Conundrum in a Nutshell
Here’s a bit from a Hacker News comment that stuck with me:
If I know the site where I
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Who Hated the Google Pixel 4? Google, Apparently
Google unveiled the Pixel 5 today (9to5Google has a good roundup), and nothing makes the Pixel 4 looks worse than
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The Foxconn Con
Still a whole lotta nothing, huh?
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We Fight Those Misrepresentations Because They are False
Feminists know that women with ambition are called “monstrous” or that women who are not heterosexual are pathologised. We fight those misrepresentations because they are false and because they reflect more about the misogyny of those who make demeaning caricatures than they do about the complex soc
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VS Code is a Behemoth
The Era of Visual Studio Code | Roben Kleene
VS Code is the most popular text editor today. It’s so
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The Forthcoming Xbox App Update is Just a Taste of What's Possible
Upcoming Xbox App Update Will Let Xbox Users Stream Games to iPhone and iPad - MacRumors
Xbox's streaming
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My Apple Watch Series 6 Review
I've been using the Apple Watch Series 6 for a week and wanted to share my thoughts on
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I'm Not Putting Any More Amazon Smart Devices in My Home
LifeHacker has a good breakdown (with the excellent title, How to Preorder Everything New and Creepy From Amazon's
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There is an Ocean of Possibility Out There for Great Software
The Power and Paradox of Bad Software | WIRED
There are big platforms that help people do all kinds of work.
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What if This Got You Excited?
I can sympathize with this story of getting legitimately excited about a game because you see people like you in a video game, but I can’t really empathize with it.
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It’s No Longer in My Dock
This is how I’ve changed with Things as well. It’s my most used app on my iPhone, but it’s icon lives in the app library now. The 2x2 widget shows me how many tasks I have left for the day, as well as the next 4 on my schedule.
Fingerprint Sensors in All the Things
I could be way off about this, but I keep thinking about that Touch ID sensor in the power button
Widgets Are Too Hot!
I've made 2 videos about some of my favorite widgets that have come out since iOS 14 released
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We’re Living Through a Revolution in Note Taking
This feels to me like when the iPhone came out and all other phone makers had to go, “oh, we need to think about things differently, and we absolutely need to steal a bunch of these new ideas because we’re going to get left in the dust if we don’t”.
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Xbox and PlayStation Pre-Orders Have Been a Disaster
Pre-orders for both Sony and Microsoft’s new game consoles have been a mess. Here’s what’s going on.
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The New Apple Watch's Slightly Larger Battery
iFixit Apple Watch Series 6 Teardown Finds Larger Battery and Bigger Taptic Engine in Thinner Casing
Apple is using a
Your Unfair Advantage, and Elevating Above “Good Enough”
We all have things we’re good and bad at in our lives. There isn’t a soul on this