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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
This photo is 2 megapixels
Above is a photo I took of the Statue of Liberty last night from a boat. It looks pretty good,
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Nothing beats familiarity when it comes to "good UX" (members post)
"Good UX" means balancing a lot of (sometimes conflicting) priorities. What's good UX when you can't make everyone happy?
Dare to dream
Apparently the last week of online discourse around Meta’s new Orion prototype struck a nerve with me because I posted an all-timer in terms of snark recently. This comes after years of two general frustrations with how some people cover and talk about technology online (especially on social media):
1. Tech that isn’
Why is anyone talking about Meta’s Orion glasses?
Good lord am I seeing a lot people talking about Meta’s new prototype hardware, Orion. Are people losing their minds? Why is this anything of note? Why even comment on this thing at all? It certainly hasn’t caught my attention. No sir, I’m a technology fan who only cares about technology I
NotebookLM tries to pin me down
NotebookLM is an interesting project from Google that lets you upload a ton of documents about whatever you want, and then "chat" with them. Another thing they just released is the ability to generate a "podcast episode" about the things you've uploaded. The audio is very convincing, and while
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They lasered my eyes (or, why I’m so happy I got Lasik, members post)
I got Lasik 2 years ago and here’s how it’s going.
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You never know what’s going to hit
Lee Peterson: Sometimes It Takes Just One Random Post to Grow Your Blog
This was completely random and it shows that sometimes you don’t need some sort of plan, just write what comes to mind and that you want to share. You’ll get found and readers will come your way.
You really do
