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2023 didn’t just break the iPad’s streak (“wah!”)
Zack Zwiezen: 2023 Was the First Waluigi-Less Year Since 2000
As seen on the extensive fan wiki, Waluigi has
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A splash of color
Chris Nicholas: A new blog for 2024
It’s been a long time since I’ve published a blog post, two whole years. Part of the reason is that it took too much effort to create posts for my previous blog. I needed better DX. A few nights ago, feeling inspired after reading articles by
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Nintendo is Nintendo
Keza MacDonald: Nintendo’s Design Guru Shigeru Miyamoto: ‘I Wanted to Make Something Weird’
Miyamoto is often called the Spielberg of games and Nintendo dubbed gaming’s Pixar, but he doesn’t like those comparisons. “Miyamoto is Miyamoto and Nintendo is Nintendo,” was how he put it in an interview in February 2023.
I strongly
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Reasons to be optimistic
Nick Heer: How to Be Optimistic About Technology Now
When I was much younger, I assumed people who were optimistic must have misplaced confidence. How anyone could see a future so bright was a complete mystery when, I reasoned, when what we are exposed to is a series of mistakes and then attempts at correction
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Apple 2023 report cards: Vision Pro 🕶️
Surprise! This is the 5th in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s 2023 across their major product lines, and laying out my hopes for 2024. Check out the other posts about the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch.
This is a weird one since the product isn’t out yet, but how can you
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Apple 2023 report cards: Apple Watch ⌚️
This is part 4 in a series I’m doing to close out the year, looking at each of Apple’s big product lines and assessing how they did in 2023 and what I hope to see in 2024. Here’s my previous posts on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
How 2023 started
2022 saw
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Apple 2023 report cards: The Mac 💻
This is the third in a series of posts I’ll be doing through the end of the year looking at where each of Apple’s major product lines are at going into the new year. Here’s previous pieces on the iPhone and iPad.
How the year started
It would be an understatement to
Quick Reviews gets its annual update
A couple years ago I made a website for myself, Quick Reviews, and I've used it hundreds of
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Apple 2023 report cards: iPad
This is the second in a series of posts reviewing Apple’s major product lines in 2023. Here’s my look at the iPhone.
How the year started
Apple updated 4 of their 5 iPad models in 2022 (everything but the iPad Mini) and added a new model to the lineup.
1. The iPad Pro
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The future of LLMs is local
I saw this post over on json.blog, OpenAI Is Just Uber, which sounds like it makes sense, but I think is drawing the wrong conclusions on a couple fronts.
A decade later, ride-sharing hasn’t evolved significantly since its launch. Costs have risen as consumers now pay the actual marginal cost of their
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Apple 2023 report cards: iPhone 📱
This is the first in a 4-part series of posts I’m writing to close out the year where I can get my thoughts out about Apple’s biggest product lines. I won’t be giving a score, but I will share my thoughts on the state of each product line, as well as
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Walking away and feeling great about it
Ben Werdmuller: Leaving the Nazi Bar
If I find that the owner of the living room allows people who make me or my friends feel unsafe — or, as is true in this case, pays them to hang out there, and makes money from their presence — I can use the law of two feet to leave.
Are movies actually getting longer?
Are movies getting longer than they used to be? It’s something I think a lot of us feel is
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2023 was a big year for the fediverse. 2024 could be even bigger
David Pierce for The Verge, 2023 in Social Media: The Case for the Fediverse
It doesn’t make sense that we have a dozen usernames, a dozen profiles, a dozen sets of fans and friends. All that stuff should belong to me, and I should be able to access it and interact with it anywhere
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Swing back to the blog
Chris McLeod, Blogging is where it's at, again
Maybe I’m reading too much into it, but stumbling into such a trove of active blogs has enthused me about blogging as a medium again. It’s sparked a thought that through a combination of increased blogging activity, declining platforms, and increasing adoption of
