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Not the Podcast Recommendation You Might Expect
I don’t know much at all about fashion, but I decided to try out In Vogue: The 1990s, and
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Birch Bark Issue 34
In case you didn't know, I have a weekly newsletter where I share the most interesting art, music,
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Concept: Proper Widget Support on the iPad
Fun fact, did you know that depending on your iPad size, mode, and orientation, your icons will be either 38, 46, 58, 62, 64, 68, 76, 88, 96, 102, 118, or 137 points apart in the UI? It's true!
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The Lingering Effects
‘It’s Not in My Head’: They Survived the Coronavirus, but They Never Got Well - The New York Times
The first few months, I didn’t believe myself. Is this in my head? When I got the antibody test a few weeks ago saying I had a positive antibody test, I sobbed for like an
Politics
What Did We Just Watch?
Can someone explain to me how this week’s presidential debate was anything more than an embarrassment? Can someone tell me why anyone can look at the performance from POTUS and think, “yeah, that was a reasonable debate by a smart man”?
I’m embarrassed for my country.
We have so many deep problems in
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The DuckDuckGo Conundrum in a Nutshell
Here’s a bit from a Hacker News comment that stuck with me:
If I know the site where I can get what I seek e.g. Reddit, SO, HN then bangs on DDG are useful but when I don't know which site would get me the information I seek, DDG fails me
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Who Hated the Google Pixel 4? Google, Apparently
Google unveiled the Pixel 5 today (9to5Google has a good roundup), and nothing makes the Pixel 4 looks worse than seeing how few of the things Google said they were excited about last year being straight up gone this year.
* All that face sensor tech? Gone.
* That radar sensor that was such a big revolution?
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The Foxconn Con
Still a whole lotta nothing, huh?
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We Fight Those Misrepresentations Because They are False
Feminists know that women with ambition are called “monstrous” or that women who are not heterosexual are pathologised. We fight those misrepresentations because they are false and because they reflect more about the misogyny of those who make demeaning caricatures than they do about the complex soc
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VS Code is a Behemoth
The Era of Visual Studio Code | Roben Kleene
VS Code is the most popular text editor today. It’s so
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The Forthcoming Xbox App Update is Just a Taste of What's Possible
Upcoming Xbox App Update Will Let Xbox Users Stream Games to iPhone and iPad - MacRumors
Xbox's streaming feature
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My Apple Watch Series 6 Review
I've been using the Apple Watch Series 6 for a week and wanted to share my thoughts on
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I'm Not Putting Any More Amazon Smart Devices in My Home
LifeHacker has a good breakdown (with the excellent title, How to Preorder Everything New and Creepy From Amazon's
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There is an Ocean of Possibility Out There for Great Software
The Power and Paradox of Bad Software | WIRED
There are big platforms that help people do all kinds of work. But you know what blows them away? Software for making software. The software industry's software is so, so good (not that people don't complain). Just take a look at the modern
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What if This Got You Excited?
I can sympathize with this story of getting legitimately excited about a game because you see people like you in a video game, but I can’t really empathize with it.
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It’s No Longer in My Dock
This is how I’ve changed with Things as well. It’s my most used app on my iPhone, but it’s icon lives in the app library now. The 2x2 widget shows me how many tasks I have left for the day, as well as the next 4 on my schedule.
Fingerprint Sensors in All the Things
I could be way off about this, but I keep thinking about that Touch ID sensor in the power button
Widgets Are Too Hot!
I've made 2 videos about some of my favorite widgets that have come out since iOS 14 released