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Substack continues their pull away from the open web
Sarah Perez for TechCrunch: Substack Is Giving Out Free Subscriptions to Boost App Installs
Publishing platform Substack is now pushing
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Here's hoping…
Tomorrow is the US Presidential election, and no one knows what's going to happen. Maybe Kamala Harris will
Some random YouTube videos I dug recently
I used to share some YouTube videos every week in my newsletter, but that turned into feeling like work, so
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Call of Duty and "the average user" (members post)
What does Call of Duty's massive success (and horrendous user interface) mean about the importance of design?
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Apple acquires Pixelmator. Oh my!
Pixelmator Team: A new home for Pixelmator
Today we have some important news to share: the Pixelmator Team plans to
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Ghost is still the right tool for me
John O'Nolan: Democratising Publishing
Having seen how things worked on the inside for several years, the conclusion I
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John Green, Tuberculosis, and using your platform for good
Maddie Bender for The New York Times: Can John Green Make You Care About Tuberculosis?
Mr. Green has emerged as
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YouTuber Patrick Willems? No, no. Filmmaker Patrick Willems 👌
Jennifer Maas writing for Variety: 'Dinner Plan' Short Film at Nebula Casts Griffin Newman, Zach Cherry
Nebula has
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A lot changed in 2004
Anil Dash: It feels like 2004 again.
A generation ago, those of us in tech might talk to our friends
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The Quest 3S ain’t no Vision Pro
Michael Burkhardt writing for 9to5Mac: Meta Quest 3S review: Apple would never make this
The reason why I say Apple
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The medical community loves a headset (members post)
Apparently there are surgeons who are getting tons of value from the Vision Pro. That’s great, but is it evidence that the Vision Pro is a great success, or is it just that surgeons use literally every headset that comes out regardless of if those headsets are successes or failures?
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The “I can’t see it so no one can see it” fallacy (members post)
The iPad mini jelly scroll situation taps perfectly into my favorite category of controversy: things that have objective facts mixed with subjective experience. Beware the idea that we all see, hear, and smell the world the same.
Arguing against improvements
Apple will be announcing new Macs next week, and that could mean it’s finally time for them to update
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Don’t take early digital movie releases to automatically mean failure
The Verge is reporting on Joker: Folie à Deux, one of the most derided movies of 2024, coming to digital
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My first Apple embargo (members post)
What it was like being a part of my first Apple hardware embargo.
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This is the sort of thing that makes me like Apple
Chris Welch for The Verge: Apple’s AirPods Pro hearing health features are as good as they sound
Being able
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I think we’re done making “shitty games”
Blooper Team’s Jacek Zieba, who just released the Silent Hill 2 remake, in an interview with GameSpot: Bloober Team
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The most important line in any headset review
Riley Hill: I Bought A Vision Pro After Everyone Said It Was Dead
After about two weeks of using the