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Get Your Biden/Harris Yard Signs in Animal Crossing
Honestly, I'm mostly kicking myself for not making these myself, it seems so obvious!
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Hanging In Trees
Much the way milliseconds can mean millions to hedge funds using robotraders, a smartphone perched in a tree can be the key to getting a $15 delivery route before someone else.
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Web Brutalism and Apps for Helping You Think
When that task is thinking, the best tools reflect the way that thinking happens, a meandering, back-and-forth process of exploring and refining our hunches and questions and notions.
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Product Complexity Can Create Die Hard Fans
When Complexity Breeds Community - Making Connections by Jax
These communities provide the perfect entry point for new sign-ups, bridging
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iPad Pro Magic Keyboard 4 Month Video Review
I've been using the Magic Keyboard everyday since it came out and I wanted to do a follow up review on what I thought of it after the initial hype wore off.
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PaymentKit: How Apple Lets Some Air Out of this Pressure Cooker
The theoretical Payments API could make it so that developers stop losing their minds with rage while keeping users safe and driving new innovation in mobile payments.
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I'm on The Verge
I didn't set out to get featured on The Verge's front page, but here we are.
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I Suck at JOMO
I really want to make an effort to be more intentional with my time and experience the joy of missing out more than I do today.
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How to Tell if You are an Asshole
Here are a few simple ways to identify an asshole in a retail environment.
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Your "Forever Apps"
The world has moved to more ephemeral software, and that comes with some huge benefits, but there is something to be said for having some apps and files that just last forever, no matter what subscriptions you stop paying or companies that go out of business.
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Animal Crossing Fans Are Making it More Inclusive, and That’s Awesome
Animal Crossing fans are making Nintendo’s game more inclusive to less common skin types, and I think that’s just swell.
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The Journal That One Publishes Studies with Boring Conclusions
What if we tried to remove novelty bias in science by making it easy to get published when your study returns results that are not the least bit surprising?
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The Strange Data Behind How We Vote
When someone votes for someone, believes a certain deity, or thinks a certain athlete is the GOAT, they think it’s totally logical and their own choice. The data continues to show that while we certainly have agency, there are major forces pushing us in certain directions.
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How They Did Early Special Effects: Indian in the Cupboard
Miniaturization Secrets: Eric Brvig on Indian in the Cupboard - Before and Afters
And so that was the first time
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What Are we Even Debating?
After listening to the most recent episode of The Talk Show, I'm not really sure what the argument about iPads not being general purpose computers even means. It sounds to me like we're debating a technicality but don't actually disagree on the outcome.
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A New Look for BirchTree
It was time for a change, so I hope you like it!
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Have I Mentioned I’m Done with Call of Duty?
Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Ad Promotes Far-Right Conspiracy Theory
The term more recently gained popularity in gaming
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Work From Home is Having a Moment, but it Will Fade (at least some)
The Long-Term ‘Work From Home’ Trend is Overstated – Tech.pinions
There’s another, less measurable benefit of working in an