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Improving My Day-to-Day Workflow for less than $200
I wasn't expecting to write about this but based on the number of texts, DMs, and @ replies I
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The Impact of Monotype Gobbling Up Another Type Foundry
Some are not too pleased with Monotype's recent acquisition of Hoefler&Co:
The impact of H&Co’s acquisition cannot be overstated, says Nadine Chahine, […] "I think it’s about time that I can speak more openly about this. It’s the future of our industry at stake and it’
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The Best Way to Play Old Video Games Is Unfortunate
People are pretty grumpy about the quality of emulation on Nintendo Switch Online:
One of the draws of the Expansion Pack isn’t just the ability to play classic N64 games on Switch. It’s also the chance to play them online, something that wasn’t an option before. But players have similarly been encountering
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Facebook Switched to a Reverse-Chronological Timeline, Facebook Made More Money, and Users Hated It
Apparently in 2018 Facebook turned off the algorithm for a small percentage of users:
"What happens if we delete ranked News Feed?” they asked in an internal report summing up the experiment. Their findings: Without a News Feed algorithm, engagement on Facebook drops significantly, people hide 50% more posts, content from Facebook Groups rises
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Is the Lowest End 14" MacBook Pro Worth It?
I compiled real-world benchmarks from how I use my Mac and compared them to the M1 MacBook Air from
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Apple's Curious Reasoning Why the Mac Doesn't Have Touch
Chance Miller on 9to5Mac quoting Apple's John Ternus in WSJ (paywalled):
We make the world’s best touch computer on an iPad. It’s totally optimized for that. And the Mac is totally optimized for indirect input. We haven’t really felt a reason to change that.
Like okay, but I can use
The Most Dramatic, and Somehow Best Take on That Polishing Cloth
The Apple Polishing Cloth Is Everything Wrong With Society - Victoria Song
But the silly dumb thing that makes people laugh inevitably becomes warped into something it wasn’t meant to be. It gets co-opted by the Elon Musks of the world, corporate dingbats with more hair than brains who somehow hold all the power.
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This Way of Talking About the Web Does it a Great Disservice
Have Single-Page Apps Ruined the Web? | Transitional Apps with Rich Harris (YouTube)
We talk about documents vs apps as thought it were a dichotomy, but it's not, it's a spectrum. When we erase the stuff in the middle we do the web a great disservice. It's a medium
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How Stupid is the Metaverse?
It’s easy to scoff at “the metaverse,” and the older you are, the more likely that reaction. After all, we already have this beautiful world that we all get to share, why would we want to create different worlds and interact there?
This is the question I’ve been rolling around in my head
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Galaxy Brain is Moving to The Atlantic
Charlie Warzel on his Substack:
I’m moving Galaxy Brain from Substack over to The Atlantic. The newsletter will exist
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Glass Adds Public Profiles (and RSS!)
Introducing Public Profiles
With Glass 1.2 coming out today, you can now share your Glass Profile anywhere! We’re excited to open up profiles, letting you truly make Glass your home for highlighting your photography.
This is really cool, and I doubly love that they have enabled RSS on these profiles so you can
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Spotify Takes the Podcasts Crown from Apple
Spotify says US podcast listeners now use its service more than Apple Podcasts | TechCrunch
During the company’s Q3 2021 earnings call, the company said that according to Edison Research and its own internal sources, it “recently became” the No. 1 podcast platform U.S. listeners use the most. Given the U.S. is the
That's So Meta
Facebook pulled a Google today and created a company to oversee all of their products, and that company is called Meta. I haven't read The Discourse on what people think about this, so I'll be curious to see how my opinions compare to others. Here's a few takeaways from
It's Okay, Dropbox Will Support Apple Silicon
From a feature request thread asking for a native version (July 2021):
This idea is going to need a bit more support before we share your suggestion with our team.
This got shared around a lot today, and it was followed up by this response from last month:
We are working to ensure that Dropbox,
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2x Zoom is Awkward on the iPhone 13 Pro
The iPhone 13 Pro line was upgraded with a 3x telephoto lens this year, giving you more "reach"
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The Only Apple Silicon Mac You Probably Shouldn’t Buy
Rogue Amoeba - Under the Microscope » Blog Archive » On The Much Improved State of Macintosh Hardware
In 2018, we couldn’t recommend buying a single current Macintosh model. Now? You almost can’t go wrong.
I would argue the only Apple Silicon Mac I can’t recommend is the 13” MacBook Pro. It’s several hundred
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The Mac is Exciting Again
On Thanksgiving 2018 I bought the 12.9” iPad Pro and sold my MacBook Pro to pay for it. I was all in on the iPad because I loved it and in retrospect, because it was where all the excitement was in new Apple computers.
The iPad Pro was where Apple was flexing its design
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My Simple Ask for Things 4
I love Things 3, but there are some aspects I think could be improved in the (hopefully) inevitable Things 4,