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My Favorite Things of 2021 (Birchtree Besties)
This was going to be a short post, but here we are and I've got almost 2,000
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Viable Mac Monitors in 2021
Casey Liss has compiled a list of viable Mac monitors, and I think it's a decent list, but I'd like to add to the discussion since I think his standards are a bit too specific.
I'm using the LG 27” IPS 4K UHD Monitor (model #: 27UP600-W.AUS) which
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Data Can be Objective, but the Story it Tells is Always Subjective
Over the past few months, I've had all of my inflation-hawk friends share the price of oil as a key indicator of the out-of-control rising prices they see out there.
All data via MacroTrends.
So it looks like a pretty strong upward trend, but what if we back up 10
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Apple Silicon is One of the Best Innovations of 2021
The top 100 new technologies of 2021 | Popular Science
The company has already updated the M1 with the new M1 Pro and M1 Max chips, which popped in October. Laptops with those guts are already outperforming pricier Mac Pros using the old architecture. It was a big swing for Apple and, at least so far,
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Fair Warning on Publishing to Ghost from Craft
I made a video last week about the developer preview for Craft extensions, and one of the things I showed was possible in that vide was publishing from Craft. Now while this is possible, the "developer preview" tag Craft puts on the page is absolutely legit, and I would not recommend most people
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Post-Hoc Myth-Making at Scale
The Token Disconnect - Stephen Diehl
After looking at this phenomenon for the last decade, I’ll give what I believe is the first rough draft of history. Silicon Valley ran dry on large breakthroughs in software, so we decided to invent the “blockchain”, a simulacrum of innovation that organically fermented from the anti-institutional themes
Is Web3 Bullshit? Depends on the Question.
Max Read in his Read Max newsletter:
You find a lot of writers right now asking, essentially, why bet against Andreessen Horowitz? Which I understand! But my feeling is also: Why do I have to bet at all?! Why am I in this awful, ugly, unfun casino in the first place?? Is there a way
Die Hard, the Christmas Movie?
For many years I would roll my eyes when people said that Die Hard was a "Christmas movie."
This was Posted from Craft!
Craft announced version 2.0 yesterday, and there's a lot there, but the most exciting thing to me was an open framework for developers to build their own extensions for the app called Craft X. I'll have much more on this soon, but I think that these give Craft the ability
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The Hot New Safari Extension I'm Not Thrilled About
Vinegar - A Safari Extension To Fix YouTube Videos
It’s essentially a Safari extension that makes YouTube videos look better, and act like standard HTML videos. Which means they use Safari’s native video player, which means that you have slightly more control over the video, but at the same time you do lose some
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Web-Assed Web Apps
UX Tools performs an annual survey of designers to see what software they're using, and it's
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Find That Thing You Love to Keep You Going
This video from Vox’s Phil Edwards resonated with me a ton:
You’ve got to pick a beat to slog through. Through thick and thin, though lots of traffic and zero traffic, through all of the hits and none of the hits, from big money, no money, and somewhere in between where you have
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Halo Infinite’s Battle Pass
Halo Infinite’s Battle Pass Is Totally Fine, You Guys , by Ari Notis
One refrain—and it is legit—is that, the way Halo Infinite currently works, there’s very little incentive to play to win. If one of your challenges tasks you with racking up 15 gravity hammer kills, you’ll naturally focus on
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Web3 Needs More Product People
I know that it’s a bit of a wild west right now, but basically every web3 website I go to needs more input from product people to be usable for anyone besides the enthusiast crowd.
Every single time I’ve tried to do anything in this space, I’ve had to go to social
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Omicron Doesn’t Change the Vaccine Math
Katelyn Jetelina, an epidemiologist, over at (fittingly) Your Local Epidemiologist:
There is a lot of anxiety. I have a lot of anxiety. The public is being asked to understand the second most complex system in the human body while navigating a sea of misinformation while coping with significant pandemic exhaustion and mental health problems. All
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If Fact They Just Don't Care, and That's Kinda Comforting
Greg Morris, who I may as well make a co-author of my site, I link to him all the time:
Our brains are made for < 150 person groups of gatherers, not thousands of people online so it's important to remember that there is no need to worry about what others think,
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When the Smartest People Disagree
Is Crypto Bullshit? by Will Wilkinson:
One of my personal epistemic precepts is that if I disagree with somebody who is (a) at least smart as I am, (b) has generally sound judgment and (c) is better informed on a subject, then I ought to concede that I’m probably wrong and revise my opinion
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How I Read More, Write More, and Think More
Over the years I've created an apparently very useful cycle of content creation and consumption and I thought