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Helvetica Is Actually a Display Typeface
Gramatika: On Type Measurements, Hyphen Spacings and Other Minor Considerations
The truth is: Helvetica is actually a display font. It
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Rage Against the Facts
Right-Wing Social Media Had to Divorce Reality - The Atlantic
In the hours following the Arizona call, a paranoid conspiracy theory spread rapidly on Parler and in other right-wing online forums: Voters in conservative counties had been given felt-tip pens that supposedly made vote-counting machines reject the ballots that they marked for
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Be Kind to Retail Workers this this Holiday Season, All Holiday Seasons, and Frankly All the Time
This Thanksgiving, stay home. Grocery store workers will thank you. - Vox
If you’ve ever worked in retail, you already know what I’m about to tell you: Around the end of October, a sense of horror begins to build that has nothing to do with Halloween. […] I’m not sure what it is about
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That Herd Immunity Plan Isn't Working in Sweden
Sweden Shows No Signs So Far Herd Immunity Is Stopping Virus - Bloomberg (Apple News link)
“The issue of herd immunity is difficult,” Anders Tegnell said at a briefing in Stockholm on Tuesday. “We see no signs of immunity in the population that are slowing down the infection right now.”
And:
Swedes will no longer be
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Another Take on the HomePod Mini Sound Quality
HomePod Mini First Impressions - Chris Hannah
Obviously, the main part of the HomePod is what it sounds like. The original HomePod has an incredible set of speakers and can be pretty loud. With that in mind, I was expecting a speaker the size of the Mini would sound drastically different. I mean, still Apple quality,
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The New iPad Air and the 2008 MacBook
2020 iPad Air 4th Gen review: Pro in all but name - MSPoweruser
The 2020 iPad Air 4th Gen is the perfect option for those who can’t quite get together the cash for a Pro device. In fact, with only minor caveats compared to Apple’s more expensive offering, there’s very little reason not
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Converting to ARM Tepidly or Boldly
PC Life After Apple Silicon. by Jean-Louis Gassée | by Jean-Louis Gassée | Nov, 2020 | Monday Note
Over the years, Microsoft’s adoption of ARM has been tentative.Windows RT, a version of Windows 8 running on 32-bit ARM hardware introduced in 2011, didn’t “take”. In 2016, Microsoft announced a partnership with Qualcomm
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HomePod Mini: The Review I’ve Wanted to Write for 3 Years
The HomePod mini is something I’ve been campaigning for since November 2017, 3 months before the original HomePod was
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A Hill to Die On
For 13 years straight, people asked for iOS to add home screen widgets. For 13 years you heard the same refrain from Apple fans: they suck on Android, Apple doesn’t want that crop on their phones.
Then in iOS’s 14th revision, Apple added widgets.
And you know what? They’re fucking awesome.
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Being Thankful in 2020
Giving thanks during a pandemic — Antivirus: Issue #12 | Revue
Celebrating Thanksgiving during a pandemic is weird. It’s more stress, more risk calculations, more staying away from people you’d normally draw close to. It feels sucky and dark and I know there’s a lot of people like me who are going to be
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Uninstall Go SMS Pro Today
From Lifehacker:
The Go SMS Pro texting app has over 100 million installations from the Google Play Store, but popularity
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Back to the Mac?
First off, no, but also…maybe sorta.
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How I Use Airtable to Quantify My Life
I like to track how certain things are going in my life, from how I spend money to what games
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Apple's Slice Gets a Little Smaller
Apple introduces the App Store Small Business Program:
With the new App Store commission structure, small and individual developers who
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And the Entire PC Market Went, “Oh Shit”
Daring Fireball: The M1 Macs
What you need to understand is that the best aspects of these Macs aren’t
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My Productivity Goals for the Week
Replace a subscription with a free app, sell/donate/throw out something everyday, and focus on the bigger picture goals in my life.
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First Look at ProRAW Night Mode Photography on the iPhone 12 Pro
ProRAW is quite amazing in general, but it really struts its stuff when the sun goes down.
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Those Geekbench Scores Don’t Tell the Full Story
Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro | Hacker News
I’m not sure what to make of these scores, but it seems wrong that the Mini and Pro significantly underperform the Air in multi core. I find it hard to imagine this benchmark is going to be representative