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Before you burn it down…
I enjoyed this quote from Casey Newton on today's Hard Fork podcast:
Even as somebody who generally likes
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The Snow Leopard we've built up in our heads
Nick Heer: linking to Jeff Johnson's The myth and reality of Mac OS X Snow Leopard
I read
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Balatro continues to bring a smile
Jay Peters for The Verge: Why Balatro’s Developer Stays Anonymous
It’s an arrangement that the Playstack team figured
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My job doesn't need to exist?
Rands: The Product Engineer
You don’t need Product Managers. There. I said it.
As someone who just moved into
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The tale of Narcissus
Ted Gioia: What's Happening to Students?
I’m dumbfounded when I hear ‘experts’ claim that phones are not
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I feel more empowered than ever
Bryan Irace: Tim, Don’t Kill My Vibe
Like it or not, LLMs—both through general chat interfaces and purpose-built
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OS updates should respect my settings
Tim Hardwick writing for MacRumors: PSA: iOS 18.3.2 Re-Enables Apple Intelligence if You Turned It Off
With new
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The Gen Z-powered retro gaming revival
Eve Upton-Clark writing for Fast Company: ‘It’s Like Their Escape’: Retro Gaming Is Back Thanks to Gen Z
Low-tech
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Secretary of Defense put war plans in a group chat with a journalist
Jeffrey Goldberg with an insane story in The Atlantic: The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
The world
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Meta has squandered Threads
Jon Passantino writing for Status: Hanging by a Thread
Now Threads feels rather lifeless. While users still post there, for
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The VR market shrunk yet again in 2024
Counterpoint Research: Global VR Market Declines 12% YoY in 2024; ‘AR+AI’ Smart Glasses to Take Centre Stage in 2025
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Ghost gets ActivityPub into beta
Ghost: Social Web
We've got our social web integration for Ghost to a point where we're
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The Pebble (which made me fall in love with smart watches) is back
Introducing Two New PebbleOS Watches!
We’re excited to announce two new smartwatches that run open source PebbleOS and are
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You don’t need AI to play old games on modern hardware
Fatima Kardar, Corporate Vice President, Gaming AI, at Microsoft: Empowering Creators and Players With Muse, a Generative AI Model for
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Politics are personal
Justin Ferrell: It's Not Politics, It's Just Personal
What happens when no amount of work or
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Apple says they will add encryption to RCS
Jess Weatherbed writing for The Verge: Apple Will Soon Support Encrypted RCS Messaging With Android Users
“End-to-end encryption is a
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I’m not used to seeing this
John Gruber: Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino
The fiasco here is not that Apple is late on
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Handheld consoles, assemble!
Jez Corden writing for Windows Central: EXCLUSIVE: Xbox's New Hardware Plans Begin With a Gaming Handheld Set for