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Kevin Systrom: Shutting Down Artifact We have built something that a core group of users love, but we have concluded that the market opportunity isn’t big enough to warrant continued investment in this way. It’s a shame this app didn’t make it. I liked it in theory,
Casey Newton: Why Platformer Is Leaving Substack After much consideration, we have decided to move Platformer off of Substack. Over the next few days, the publication will migrate to a new website powered by the nonprofit, open-source publishing platform Ghost. If you already subscribe to Platformer and wish to continue
Joe Rossignol for MacRumors: iPhone Was Missing These 10 Essential Features When Unveiled in 2007 Today marks the 17th anniversary of the late Steve Jobs unveiling the original iPhone at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco. While the device was significantly more advanced than any other smartphone on the market
David Pierce for The Verge: Walmart’s AI Search Makes Shopping Faster, and Its AI Delivery Makes It Invisible The future of grocery shopping is no grocery shopping at all. It’s your fridge just being full, always, automatically. A couple things on this one… First, for many people, you
Casey Newton: Substack Says It Will Remove Nazi Publications From the Platform over the past couple years Substack has come to more closely resemble the social networks it often criticizes. Each week, Substack sends users a personalized, algorithmically ranked digest of posts from writers they don’t yet follow — a
Tim Hardwick: OLED iPad Pro Prices to Start From $1,500, Rising to as Much as $2,000 Apple's upcoming OLED iPad Pro will start at $1,500, rising to between $1,800 and $2,000 depending on size and configuration, representing a major increase in prices compared
Zack Zwiezen: 2023 Was the First Waluigi-Less Year Since 2000 As seen on the extensive fan wiki, Waluigi has appeared as a playable character or cameo in at least one Nintendo game every year since 2000. Like Old Faithful, Waluigi was predictably there every year, even if other characters like
Chris Nicholas: A new blog for 2024 It’s been a long time since I’ve published a blog post, two whole years. Part of the reason is that it took too much effort to create posts for my previous blog. I needed better DX. A few nights ago, feeling
Keza MacDonald: Nintendo’s Design Guru Shigeru Miyamoto: ‘I Wanted to Make Something Weird’ Miyamoto is often called the Spielberg of games and Nintendo dubbed gaming’s Pixar, but he doesn’t like those comparisons. “Miyamoto is Miyamoto and Nintendo is Nintendo,” was how he put it in an interview
Nick Heer: How to Be Optimistic About Technology Now When I was much younger, I assumed people who were optimistic must have misplaced confidence. How anyone could see a future so bright was a complete mystery when, I reasoned, when what we are exposed to is a series of mistakes
I saw this post over on json.blog, OpenAI Is Just Uber, which sounds like it makes sense, but I think is drawing the wrong conclusions on a couple fronts. A decade later, ride-sharing hasn’t evolved significantly since its launch. Costs have risen as consumers now pay the actual
Ben Werdmuller: Leaving the Nazi Bar If I find that the owner of the living room allows people who make me or my friends feel unsafe — or, as is true in this case, pays them to hang out there, and makes money from their presence — I can use the law
David Pierce for The Verge, 2023 in Social Media: The Case for the Fediverse It doesn’t make sense that we have a dozen usernames, a dozen profiles, a dozen sets of fans and friends. All that stuff should belong to me, and I should be able to access it
Chris McLeod, Blogging is where it's at, again Maybe I’m reading too much into it, but stumbling into such a trove of active blogs has enthused me about blogging as a medium again. It’s sparked a thought that through a combination of increased blogging activity, declining
Steven Asarch for Kotaku, Xbox’s Biggest Flop Was a Decade Ahead of Its Time Microsoft’s follow-up was the Xbox One, the always-online console bundled with the much-maligned motion control accessory known as the Kinect. To be blunt, the console’s introduction was a bit of a clusterfuck. It