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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 storefronts less than a month in theaters. The film released in theaters on October 4 this year, and it will be available to buy online October 28, so 24 days after it was in theaters.
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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 to use Apple’s $250 earbuds as a hearing aid is a huge deal for those who can benefit from this capability. That’s substantially less expensive than over-the-counter hearing aids from Jabra,
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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 Says It's Done Making "Shitty" Games And Silent Hill 2 Remake Wasn't A Fluke
[P]eople in the studio were like, 'Okay, we made some shitty games before,
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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 Vision Pro,
Riley has some interesting thoughts about using the Vision Pro for the first time many months after the hype cycle has cooled off considerably. It’s a really good post and he’s
Did you know you can (technically) cut and paste in the Finder?
Yesterday I posted this video about a Mac app called Supercharge which adds a number of quality of life features
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Digg, 20 years later
David Pierce: How Digg helped invent the social internet
In its early days, Digg was something like the homepage of the internet. Any user could submit a link, and then any other user could either promote it with a “dig” or demote it with a “bury.” The best and most popular stuff made the homepage,
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Passkeys get a bit closer to becoming portable
Lori Glavin: FIDO Alliance Publishes New Specifications to Promote User Choice and Enhanced UX for Passkeys
The FIDO Alliance has published a working draft of a new set of specifications for secure credential exchange that, when standardized and implemented by credential providers, will enable users to securely move passkeys and all other credentials across providers.
Minor update to Quick Reviews
Last night I pushed an update to Quick Reviews to make 2 changes:
1. The reset buttons on the color, text size, and score names settings are now green and actual HTML buttons with aria labels, making them more accessible.
2. I've disabled the "API" that allowed people to pre-fill
The Apple Pencil lineup is doing what we should have all expected
Back in May when the latest iPad Pros were announced, there was some consternation about how the Apple Pencil story
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Productivity apps won’t do your work for you, but they can still help
Casey Newton many weeks ago: Three apps that made me more productive this year
A year ago this week, I wrote here about why note-taking apps don’t make us smarter. In short, it took me too long to learn, software can’t automate your thinking. But I do think it can create the
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Remember, the computers don’t think
Kyle Orland for ArsTechnica: Apple study exposes deep cracks in LLMs’ “reasoning” capabilities
The results of this new GSM-Symbolic paper aren't completely new in the world of AI research. Other recent papers have similarly suggested that LLMs don't actually perform formal reasoning and instead mimic it with probabilistic pattern-matching
Home Depot is finally rolling out contactless payments (yes, the "finally" is warranted")
Steven Aquino writing for Forbes: Home Depot’s Rollout Of Apple Pay Reminds Apple Pay, Accessibility Are One
My friend Chance Miller reported this week for 9to5 Mac that Home Depot is ending its laggardness by finally beginning to roll out support for Apple Pay in its stores.
This should have happened years ago, but
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How to set up author tags on Mastodon
Mastodon recently added the ability to natively add author labels to links on Mastodon. Basically, when a link is posted, you can have your Mastodon account automatically tagged so people can more easily find you.
I would have written up an explainer on how to do it, but Robb Knight has already done it so
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Mujjo iPhone 16 Pro case and wallet review
Last year, I thought Mujjo’s iPhone cases were excellent. I thought they were so good that when I realized
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Above is a photo I took of the Statue of Liberty last night from a boat. It looks pretty good,
