21 Jul 2024 - 2 min read

Biden is out (or, you thought you were going to get a weekend without major political news, didn’t you?)

The New York Times Editorial Board: Biden Made a Courageous Choice. Democrats Must Seize the Opportunity. President Biden’s decision to exit the 2024 presidential election is a fitting coda for a man whose life has been devoted to public service. Mr. Biden has served the nation well as its

20 Jul 2024 - 1 min read

I’m glad iPhones are getting RCS

John Gruber on Daring Fireball: The AT&T Data Breach Shows Why RCS Can’t Be Trusted and the Downside of Apple Adding Support for It in iOS 18 Ihnatko is right, but only if you believe that carrier-based message should remain the baseline. I do not. And it’

19 Jul 2024 - 3 min read

I am so back! (members post)

A few weeks ago I blew up my read-later workflow to see if I was actually using the right tool for the job. This week I’m back with a status report on where I’ve landed.

17 Jul 2024 - 1 min read

College Football video games are back and they’re killing it already

Zack Zwiezen reporting on EA College Football 25 hitting over 700,000 concurrent players in its first 24 hours after release: To put that number in perspective, it handily beats out Helldivers 2, which hit a player count of around 485,000 shortly after launch. It’s also more than

17 Jul 2024 - 1 min read

Kevin Conroy’s final words as Batman

Willa Rowe on Kotaku: These Are Kevin Conroy's Final Words as Batman and They're Perfect It’s an undeniably badass line, and it’s made even more poignant by the fact that this is Conroy’s last performance in the role. Click through the link to

16 Jul 2024 - 2 min read

Social networks downranking links has been so destructive to the web (members post)

Why I think years and years of social networks downranking posts with links in them has done real damage to the open web.

15 Jul 2024 - 1 min read

Yup, I’m a full-on eSIM fan now

Jeremy Burge: Why eSIM Is My New Best Friend Alternative title: How and why to install an eSIM to save money on data roaming fees when overseas. Especially useful if you have an iPhone 14 with no SIM Tray. I was skeptical about eSIM when it was debuted, but I

15 Jul 2024 - 1 min read

Warner Bros. Discovery definitely knows what they’re doing…

Warner Bros. Discovery is changing a few more upcoming shows from “Max Originals” to “HBO Originals”: It is part of a strategy to rebrand its highest profile titles into HBO Originals, giving them a linear airing on the premium cable network as well as a streaming bow. When the move

13 Jul 2024 - 2 min read

The pit it's so easy to fall into

One of the hard parts about sharing one's opinions online like I do is that it's very easy to fall into the trap of mostly complaining about things. Do you like tech? Careful, lest you post mostly about what tech you hate. Do you like movies

12 Jul 2024 - 1 min read

Where my support lies

Niléane on MacStories: LGBT and Marginalized Voices Are Not Welcome on Threads I do have some sincere expectations for you all who are reading this. I expect tech journalists to more systematically report on everything that fits into this pattern. I expect tech podcasters to acknowledge that Threads is only

11 Jul 2024 - 2 min read

The Vision Pro needs more promoters

There's a practice very common in software companies of collecting your "net promoter score." This practice is pretty simple, you ask your users how likely they would be to recommend your product to someone else. They give you a score from zero to ten where zero

10 Jul 2024 - 2 min read

That just doesn't square with reality

I've been sitting on writing something about this video from Louis Rossmann where he lays into Marques Brownlee for his admittedly pretty softball interview with Apple about repairability. I found Louis's video pretty absurd, and was really annoyed by it. He spends upwards of 10 minutes

8 Jul 2024 - 1 min read

VR is hovering (and what does a “big” product mean anymore?)

Benedict Evans: The VR Winter Continues it’s obvious that the devices will get better, lighter and cheaper, but much less obvious whether that’s enough. How many people will care? We should be careful of saying ‘no-one will do that’ - we all do things every day that ‘no-one

8 Jul 2024 - 1 min read

My objectively* accurate iPod tier list (members post)

Taking a page from the ATP crew, I did a tier list for fun! We'll see how this one goes, but I think it's a lot of fun and will make people go "yes!" and "this guy is nuts!" in equal measure.

8 Jul 2024 - 1 min read

An appreciation for jugaad engineering

Julian Chokkattu writing for Wired: Nothing’s CMF Devices Prove Yet Again Cheap Doesn't Have to Mean Boring What's most remarkable about these devices is the price. I have tested cheap and flagship smartphones for nearly a decade, and after setting up the CMF Phone 1,