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The social network Substack wants to own more and more of the relationship

4 Apr 2024 - 1 min read

The social network Substack wants to own more and more of the relationship

Home With The Armadillo: Substack Is Setting Writers Up For A Twitter-Style Implosion Essentially, the “follow” feature allows Substack to hold writers (and readers) hostage on their platform, forcing them to operate in a closed-content ecosystem that predominantly benefits Substack. Readers must use the Substack app or the Substack site

Another Matrix movie, huh?

3 Apr 2024 - 1 min read

Another Matrix movie, huh?

Warner Bros has announced they’re making a fifth Matrix film, not with either of the Wachowskis, but with Drew Goddard writing and directing. He’s best known for writing The Martian’s adaptation and writing/directing Cabin in the Woods. Here’s my top 4 featured movies on my

What I want from immersive video and why that MLS highlight reel was not quite it

29 Mar 2024 - 2 min read

What I want from immersive video and why that MLS highlight reel was not quite it

Jason Snell on Six Colors: Apple’s Immersive Video Problem Now, having seen the video, I have a few more observations. The first is that I don’t think the new video is very good. Oh, sure, the individual shots can be impressive. […] The problem is that, based on how

Claude tops GPT 4 in blind comparisons

29 Mar 2024 - 1 min read

Claude tops GPT 4 in blind comparisons

Benj Edwards writing for ArsTechnica: “The King Is Dead”—Claude 3 Surpasses GPT-4 on Chatbot Arena for the First Time On Tuesday, Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus large language model (LLM) surpassed OpenAI's GPT-4 (which powers ChatGPT) for the first time on Chatbot Arena, a popular crowdsourced

Your quarterly reminder that Substack is not infrastructure, they’re an aspiring social platform

29 Mar 2024 - 1 min read

Your quarterly reminder that Substack is not infrastructure, they’re an aspiring social platform

Jeanna Kadlec on Threads Substack is completely gutting their business right now. Every writer I know is seeing our subscriptions plummet as our “follower” count rises. The whole value proposition of Substack is that it’s a newsletter and writer hub. This latest intervention is indicative of their efforts to

Ina Fried’s Vision Pro review

29 Mar 2024 - 1 min read

Ina Fried’s Vision Pro review

Ina Fried: Axios Review: Using Apple’s Vision Pro in Real Life The Vision Pro quickly feels heavy on your face, as others have noted. But using it is also cognitively more complex than just watching TV while doing some work on a phone or laptop. I spent a lot

404 Media adds full-text RSS for subscribers, and I’d love to do the same (if I can figure out how)

27 Mar 2024 - 2 min read

404 Media adds full-text RSS for subscribers, and I’d love to do the same (if I can figure out how)

404 Media: 404 Media Now Has a Full Text RSS Feed Since we launched 404 Media in August, the most common request we’ve gotten from our subscribers is for an RSS feed that contains the full text of all of our articles. We are proud and excited to announce

Bring back the AirPort!

26 Mar 2024 - 1 min read

Bring back the AirPort!

Joe Rosensteel: It’s Time for a New AirPort networking underpins everything that Apple does care about. Every Mac, iPad, Apple TV, HomePod, Vision Pro, and most importantly every iPhone. The iPhone is a cellular device, but when you’re at home, you’re on your Wi-Fi network. If your

22 Mar 2024 - 5 min read

Digital wallets and the “only Apple Pay does this” mythology

Apple Pay is great, but I think there is some misunderstanding out there about the details of how it works.

First look at what opting a Threads account into the fediverse will look like

20 Mar 2024 - 2 min read

First look at what opting a Threads account into the fediverse will look like

This (shockingly low res) view went up yesterday and shows what the user experience will be like for Threads users when they want to opt into the fediverse. There are so many interesting details here, and honestly I think Meta is doing a fantastic job with how this is being

Take a breath, save your outrage until WWDC

19 Mar 2024 - 1 min read

Take a breath, save your outrage until WWDC

Abner Li writing for 9to5Google: Apple Might Use Google Gemini to Power Some AI Features on the iPhone According to Bloomberg, there are “active negotiations to let Apple license Gemini, Google’s set of generative AI models, to power some new features coming to the iPhone software this year.” Apple

“AI” as a marketing tool

18 Mar 2024 - 1 min read

“AI” as a marketing tool

Yunqi Li writing for Wired: The Tech Behind Taylor Swift Concert Wristbands It’s funny because oftentimes people think there’s GPS in each of the devices, or there’s a lot of advanced AI technology,” says Vincent Leclerc, co-founder and CEO of PixMob in an interview with WSJ. “But

If you want your movie to have any cultural significance, put it in theaters

14 Mar 2024 - 2 min read

If you want your movie to have any cultural significance, put it in theaters

Tatiana Siegel writing for Variety: Apple’s Blockbuster Gamble On March 10, the tech giant has 13 shots to take home an Oscar via two historical epics, “Killers of the Flower Moon” and “Napoleon,” which nabbed 10 and three nominations, respectively. That’s given Apple the second-biggest haul among the

I don’t care if you force close your apps

14 Mar 2024 - 2 min read

I don’t care if you force close your apps

Maxwell Zeff for Gizmodo: Closing Your iPhone Apps Is a Mythical Waste of Time Apple users seem unanimously convinced that closing background apps is a good habit, but it’s more likely a waste of time A few years ago, I would have retweeted, boosted, and linked to this article

Why Switch emulation is a bit unique

14 Mar 2024 - 2 min read

Why Switch emulation is a bit unique

Sean Hollister for The Verge: How Nintendo’s Destruction of Yuzu Is Rocking the Emulator World Not only did hackers find an unprecedented vulnerability in the original Switch less than a year after release but also the emulator scene managed to develop software that plays Switch games better than the