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John O'Nolan: Democratising Publishing Having seen how things worked on the inside for several years, the conclusion I personally came to was that WordPress and Automattic were not truly about democratising publishing, after all. At the same time, I felt the product was becoming slow and bloated. WordPress
Maddie Bender for The New York Times: Can John Green Make You Care About Tuberculosis? Mr. Green has emerged as an unlikely spokesman in the global effort to fight the disease. His latest project, a book called “Everything Is Tuberculosis,” interweaves the social and scientific histories of tuberculosis with the
Jennifer Maas writing for Variety: 'Dinner Plan' Short Film at Nebula Casts Griffin Newman, Zach Cherry Nebula has set the cast for its upcoming short film from “Night of the Coconut” director and popular video essayist Patrick Willems, “The Dinner Plan.” A dark comedy about a guy with
Anil Dash: It feels like 2004 again. A generation ago, those of us in tech might talk to our friends or family and hear them say, "I think the ads in my Hotmail account are terrible, and I can’t send any attachments. And Yahoo search is getting worse,
Michael Burkhardt writing for 9to5Mac: Meta Quest 3S review: Apple would never make this The reason why I say Apple would never make it is for one reason, and one reason only: it’s too low quality. Michael goes on to note the lower quality build of the Quest 3S,
The Verge is reporting on Joker: Folie à Deux, one of the most derided movies of 2024, coming to digital storefronts less than a month in theaters. The film released in theaters on October 4 this year, and it will be available to buy online October 28, so 24 days
Chris Welch for The Verge: Apple’s AirPods Pro hearing health features are as good as they sound Being able to use Apple’s $250 earbuds as a hearing aid is a huge deal for those who can benefit from this capability. That’s substantially less expensive than over-the-counter hearing
Blooper Team’s Jacek Zieba, who just released the Silent Hill 2 remake, in an interview with GameSpot: Bloober Team Says It's Done Making "Shitty" Games And Silent Hill 2 Remake Wasn't A Fluke [P]eople in the studio were like, 'Okay, we
Riley Hill: I Bought A Vision Pro After Everyone Said It Was Dead After about two weeks of using the Vision Pro, Riley has some interesting thoughts about using the Vision Pro for the first time many months after the hype cycle has cooled off considerably. It’s a really
David Pierce: How Digg helped invent the social internet In its early days, Digg was something like the homepage of the internet. Any user could submit a link, and then any other user could either promote it with a “dig” or demote it with a “bury.” The best and most
Lori Glavin: FIDO Alliance Publishes New Specifications to Promote User Choice and Enhanced UX for Passkeys The FIDO Alliance has published a working draft of a new set of specifications for secure credential exchange that, when standardized and implemented by credential providers, will enable users to securely move passkeys and
Casey Newton many weeks ago: Three apps that made me more productive this year A year ago this week, I wrote here about why note-taking apps don’t make us smarter. In short, it took me too long to learn, software can’t automate your thinking. But I do think
Kyle Orland for ArsTechnica: Apple study exposes deep cracks in LLMs’ “reasoning” capabilities The results of this new GSM-Symbolic paper aren't completely new in the world of AI research. Other recent papers have similarly suggested that LLMs don't actually perform formal reasoning and instead mimic it
Mastodon recently added the ability to natively add author labels to links on Mastodon. Basically, when a link is posted, you can have your Mastodon account automatically tagged so people can more easily find you. I would have written up an explainer on how to do it, but Robb Knight
Lee Peterson: Sometimes It Takes Just One Random Post to Grow Your Blog This was completely random and it shows that sometimes you don’t need some sort of plan, just write what comes to mind and that you want to share. You’ll get found and readers will come