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Movies on the Vision Pro are a stunning, but imperfect experience
Back when I was a kid, there was a “computer room” in our house. There was one PC and we
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So on brand
Jordan Pearson: How Tech Firms Made a Crypto-Boosting Book an NYT Best Seller by Gaming the System
Cafiero linked two
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Another Napster moment for the web? (members post)
I have real concerns about features like Arc Search blowing up the revenue model that has powered the open web for decades. Maybe there's hope in looking back 25 years at another software innovation that blew everything up, but spurred more new revenue models.
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Like buying an iPhone in 2007
What a difference a week makes, huh? Last week I was feeling FOMO, but had come to terms with not
Browse for me gets a big 🤨 from me
Casey Newton: Scenes From a Dying Web
Opening the Arc Search app for the first time last week, though, I
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Podcasts are surprisingly tough
Anil Dash: “Wherever You Get Your Podcasts” Is a Radical Statement
But here's the thing: being able to
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RSS and acid, name a more iconic duo
Keenan: RSS Readers Make Me Want to Jump Into a Vat of Acid!
Opening an RSS reader is about the
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We turned dunking into a sport
George RR Martin on his blog: Dark Days
It used to be fun talking about our favorite books and films,
The Meta Quest 3 made me even more annoyed by the PlayStation Portal
I reviewed the PlayStation Portal late last year and my main criticism of it was that it had more input
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Like buying a BlackBerry in 2007 (members post)
I got a new headset, but it's not the one everyone is talking about.
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Seeing what you want to see in the stock price
This article is making the rounds on Mastodon, where generative AI hate runs strong, and I get it, it’s
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Castro isn’t dead, apparently
Bluck Apps writing on the Castro blog, which went over 3 years without a new post, if you wanted an
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It’s usually a good sign when you agree with Siracusa
John Siracusa: Spatial Computing
The fact that I’m able to write the phrase “grab it and drag it to
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What is a compu…review?
I just read two “reviews” of the upcoming Apple Vision Pro, one from John Gruber and another from Nilay Patel.
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Project Tapestry from The Iconfactory
Project Tapestry is a new Kickstarter from The Iconfactory. Here’s how they describe it:
What if you had one
A couple improvements to More Birchtree
A week ago I launched More Birchtree, a way to subscribe to this site to get more of it (shocker!
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One of us is wildly out of touch
Ian Bogost: We’ve Forgotten How to Use Computers
Remember (if you can) the classic drag-and-drop: You’d mouse over
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The joy of tech that's uniquely yours (members post)
Today's member post looks at a part of computer tech that I can still make my own, a writer who always keeps me guessing, a weather app that’s not CARROT, and more!