Cloudflare's Web Analytics Tool is Solid, but it's Not a Google Analytics Replacement for Most
Cloudflare released their new web analytics feature to all users this week, and as a reluctant Google Analytics user, I got it set up on my site right away.
Of course it took almost no time to notice something was wrong, and less than 24 hours to realize what was wrong and why this isn&
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The Portrayal of OCD in Black Swan
The Portrayal of OCD in Darren Aronofsky's 'Black Swan'
Nina is a fascinating and nuanced portrayal of living with OCD in times of massive stress. It is not just about perfection, but about punishment and constant anxiety. While her mental health is sensationalized for shocking and dazzling visuals, the quieter moments
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Providing “Balance” to the M1 Optimism
Daring Fireball: M1 Macs: Truth and Truthiness
Patrick Moorhead’s M1 Mac review can be paraphrased as “Intel and AMD have learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make decent PC chips. Apple hasn’t just magically figured this out. They’re not going to just walk in.”
The difference
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A First Look at Typefully, a Beautiful Web App for Posting Threads to Twitter
Typefully is a new web app that lets you tweet, either single messages or whole threads, from a beautiful interface
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AirPods Max: Too Expensive? Rip off? Not so Fast…
Are the just released AirPods Max a rip off? Not quite…let me explain.
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The Little Guys
Ben Thompson (emphasis mine):
Amazon, meanwhile, is increasingly where shopping searches start, particularly for Prime customers, and the company’s ad business is exploding. Needless to say, Amazon doesn’t need to request special permission for IDFAs or to share emails with 3rd parties to finely target its ads: everything is self-contained, and to
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My Favorite Books of 2020
These are the 10 best books I read this year! Not all of these came out this year, but they
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Apple Music Wrapped?
I got an email from Spotify this weekend asking me to resubscribe for a significant discount. This comes just days
How Much Has the iPhone Camera Improved since the iPhone 7? Lots (duh)!
The headline spoils the ending, but I thought it would be fun to compare Apple's best of 2016 vs their current leading iPhone camera (technically second best, but it's close enough).
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First up is a photo in the dead of night. The iPhone 12 Pro clearly wipes the floor with
watchOS 8 Concept - Fixing the tension between nice watch faces and useful complications
It's never too early to mock up a new feature for the next version of watchOS, right?
Right?
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Instagram is Changing the Direction of Watch Fashion
Instagram has totally changed how watches are designed | WIRED UK
[I]t should be little surprise that the watch world has witnessed a colour explosion in the past two years, alongside a profound loosening of once-rigid codes around style. Not long ago, the appearance of a blue watch dial was considered newsworthy […] now dials
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Make Time App First Look
This is my first look at the new, free app from the writers of the book by the same name.
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Lord of the Rings in 4K HDR is Here
Lord of the Rings, The: The Motion Picture Trilogy (4K UHD Review)
Does this new 4K remaster really make that big of a difference? Is the image and sound really improved over the previous Blu-ray release? The answer to that is: HELL yes. However, if you don’t already have them, you’ll need
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Don’t be Dogmatic About Native or Web Apps
Something really hit home with me this week when I was playing around with Sketch. I was working on a
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When the Mac Gets Touch
Apple: No Mac-In-Touch. by Jean-Louis Gassée | by Jean-Louis Gassée | Nov, 2020 | Monday Note
Let’s rewind the clock. For years, Apple dismissed wishes of making the iPad more like a laptop as an abomination before Steve Jobs, as wanting to make the simple tablet into a complicated contraption, a toaster-fridge.
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Speaking of Places I Don’t Normally Link
Trump Election Fraud Allegations Disgraceful Endgame to 2020 Reelection Effort | National Review
Almost nothing that the Trump team has alleged has withstood the slightest scrutiny. In particular, it’s hard to find much that is remotely true in the president’s Twitter feed these days. It is full of already-debunked claims and crackpot conspiracy
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A Microsoft Flight Simulator WFH Screensaver
I don't know if this is going to be something I do regularly, but I have been enjoying having Microsoft Flight Simulator open and running interesting flights around the world while I work from home this year, and I wanted to share one flight that I quite enjoy making in the game here.
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I’m Linking to the Pope?
Opinion | Pope Francis: The Covid-19 Crisis Reveals What Is in Our Hearts - The New York Times
Look at us now: We put on face masks to protect ourselves and others from a virus we can’t see. But what about all those other unseen viruses we need to protect ourselves from? How will we
