Seriously, use the browser you like, don't worry about battery
Last year I compared the battery life using Safari and Chrome on a Mac. The critical thing that was different
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Dia killed Arc, but it's not clear why
Matt Alexander writing about his impressions of Dia, the new browser from The Browser Company (aka what they stopped working on Arc to pursue):
In all, I think they've built a decently attractive skin for Chrome. It's somewhat privacy-minded on the surface, but poses a tremendous amount of questions a
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Better stickies!
Chris won't stop talking about the iPad, I won't stop talking about the Switch 2, and
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Miniature Calendar is daily joy in your feed
Miniature Calendar is a great site I've been following for many years now, and they create miniature scenes everyday and post them with no commentary at all. Their recent Bullet Time is a good example, but I highly recommend giving them a follow if you want something delightful in your feeds everyday.
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Social media warps our sense of reality
Here's Delaware congresswoman Sarah McBride, the first openly trans member of Congress, talking with Ezra Klein about two topics near and dear to my heart: how we behave on social media and how the social media era has warped our perception of reality. These are longer quotes than normal, but that's
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+ Here we go again
I once again find myself writing code…
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Craig Federighi on the blurry line between the Mac and iPad
Federico Viticci: Interview: Craig Federighi Opens Up About iPadOS, Its Multitasking Journey, and the iPad’s Essence
In listening to Federighi’s analysis of iPad multitasking over the years, I get the sense that Apple has been trying to understand the iPad’s audience for over a decade. At some point, they realized that the
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So many $200 per month options!
Cursor CEO Michael Truell writing on the company blog: Introducing the Ultra Plan
We're excited to roll out an option to purchase Ultra, a $200 / mo plan with 20x more usage than Pro.
It's really amazing how pricing works in software markets where everything magically has the same pricing for everything.
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Just like the Mac!
Jesus Diaz writing for Fast Company: RIP to the Almost Future of Computing: Apple Just Turned the iPad Into a
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+ Being mad, for fun!
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Liquid Glass isn’t Vista 2.0, it’s iOS 7 2.0
Like many others, I found myself thinking about iOS 7 during this week's WWDC where Apple showed us
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Comfort Zone live from WWDC!
This week's Comfort Zone is special for two reasons. Obviously, WWDC is a fun week for nerds like
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What is the fediverse?
Elena Rossini has a very strong 3-minute video explaining the fediverse that I just had to share.
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Everyone says they want opinionated design until they get it
Apple revealed their new design system this week built on a concept they're calling "liquid glass"
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The top thing I want from WWDC
I bought a Microsoft Surface on May 9 and have been using it for exactly a month as of today, the first day of WWDC. I bought it in large part because I was frustrated with my iPad. I love the iPad's hardware and physical flexibility, but the software is just never quite
Nintendo Switch 2 first impressions
Well, I managed to get my hands on a Switch 2 on launch day. I've played it for
The Talk Show vs Formula 1
Last week I wrote about how for the first time in a decade, Apple would not be sending any executives to be interviewed at John Gruber’s The Talk Show Live. Well, it turns out that Apple will be holding an early screening of F1 at the same time as The Talk Show, and it’
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+ Incomplete thought: why Google gets all the blame for killing the web in 2025
Why it might be unfair for Google to be getting all the blame for "killed the web" right now.