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What You Choose to Speak Out About Matters
Kiona N. Smith: Cloudflare explains why Kiwi Farms was its most dangerous customer ever
In a short time, Cloudflare watched
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Enthusiasts Against Enthusiasts
It would be fair to say that a lot of us are “smartphone enthusiasts”, but a weird thing I’m
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Won’t Somebody Please Think of the Children?!
Jason DeParle: Expanded Safety Net Drives Sharp Drop in Child Poverty
In 1993, safety net programs cut child poverty by
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The Oddest iPhone 14 Take I’ve Seen
Damon Beres: The iPhone Isn’t Cool
And—this is real—there’s a new “Emergency SOS” feature, which will
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I’m Over the Mac App Store
Mac App Store: Mac App Store and investing engineering time
In the short term, I will definitely accept a hybrid
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I am Totally Dependent on Everyone Else
The Steve Jobs Archive is a brand new site for making available numerous Steve Jobs-related things. Currently, it's
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My Silly iPhone Event Predictions
Let's have some fun and predict what's coming tomorrow!
General Event Stuff
1. Absolutely nothing we
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The Argument for Excess Battery
I posted the above photo to Twitter last night:
Going to bed after a long day where I used my
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I Want USB-C on the iPhone, but Not Like This
John Gruber: ‘Democrats Want to Outlaw Apple From Thinking Differently’
Charging-port-regulation proponents often tell me the regulations are no impediment
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Ranking Every Apple Watch
On the verge of the 8th generation Apple Watch announcement, I thought it would be fun to rank all the
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The Birchtree Newsletter, September 2022
Hello again! This month was quite busy for me, so I wasn't able to write of film as
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You'll Be Okay in a Post-Notch World
As we get closer to the iPhone 14 announcement, and basically absolute confirmation that the Pro phones will lose the
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Apple's Unofficial Jupiter Wallpaper 2022
As I've done before in 2017 (twice, even!!), I wanted to take the chance to create a new
Back to Spark
Apple’s Mail app is getting some much-needed features this year in iOS 16, and I’ve been using it
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The One Thing Republicans Care About
Charles M. Blow: Republicans Are America’s Problem
However, her loss does crystallize something for us that many had already
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Not That Sort of Club
Nexus Mods is a great site for finding fun mods to PC games, and I use it all the time.
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Two Twenty Two: Wallpapers for iOS 16
It's been nearly a year since my last wallpaper pack…inspiration just wasn't striking me, but
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Gaming on a Mac is Still Blah
Digital Foundry does the best technical gaming analysis out there, and it was awesome to see them take a rare