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Substack continues their pull away from the open web
Sarah Perez for TechCrunch: Substack Is Giving Out Free Subscriptions to Boost App Installs
Publishing platform Substack is now pushing
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Apple acquires Pixelmator. Oh my!
Pixelmator Team: A new home for Pixelmator
Today we have some important news to share: the Pixelmator Team plans to
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Ghost is still the right tool for me
John O'Nolan: Democratising Publishing
Having seen how things worked on the inside for several years, the conclusion I
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John Green, Tuberculosis, and using your platform for good
Maddie Bender for The New York Times: Can John Green Make You Care About Tuberculosis?
Mr. Green has emerged as
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YouTuber Patrick Willems? No, no. Filmmaker Patrick Willems 👌
Jennifer Maas writing for Variety: 'Dinner Plan' Short Film at Nebula Casts Griffin Newman, Zach Cherry
Nebula has
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A lot changed in 2004
Anil Dash: It feels like 2004 again.
A generation ago, those of us in tech might talk to our friends
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The Quest 3S ain’t no Vision Pro
Michael Burkhardt writing for 9to5Mac: Meta Quest 3S review: Apple would never make this
The reason why I say Apple
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Don’t take early digital movie releases to automatically mean failure
The Verge is reporting on Joker: Folie à Deux, one of the most derided movies of 2024, coming to digital
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This is the sort of thing that makes me like Apple
Chris Welch for The Verge: Apple’s AirPods Pro hearing health features are as good as they sound
Being able
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I think we’re done making “shitty games”
Blooper Team’s Jacek Zieba, who just released the Silent Hill 2 remake, in an interview with GameSpot: Bloober Team
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The most important line in any headset review
Riley Hill: I Bought A Vision Pro After Everyone Said It Was Dead
After about two weeks of using the
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Digg, 20 years later
David Pierce: How Digg helped invent the social internet
In its early days, Digg was something like the homepage of
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Passkeys get a bit closer to becoming portable
Lori Glavin: FIDO Alliance Publishes New Specifications to Promote User Choice and Enhanced UX for Passkeys
The FIDO Alliance has
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Productivity apps won’t do your work for you, but they can still help
Casey Newton many weeks ago: Three apps that made me more productive this year
A year ago this week, I
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Remember, the computers don’t think
Kyle Orland for ArsTechnica: Apple study exposes deep cracks in LLMs’ “reasoning” capabilities
The results of this new GSM-Symbolic paper
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How to set up author tags on Mastodon
Mastodon recently added the ability to natively add author labels to links on Mastodon. Basically, when a link is posted,
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You never know what’s going to hit
Lee Peterson: Sometimes It Takes Just One Random Post to Grow Your Blog
This was completely random and it shows
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X does that thing again, but it’s totally chill this time
Elizabeth Lopatto writing for The Verge: X blocks links to hacked JD Vance dossier
X is preventing users from posting