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This Isn't 2010, Don't Design Around Specific Devices
Thanks iPhone 14, designing for device sizes is dead
If it fits precisely on your iPhone Pro Max, it can now easily no longer fit on someone's iPhone Plus. You have to test both. And when a new device has another tiny change, you can add that one yet again.
Honestly, this is
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What You Choose to Speak Out About Matters
Kiona N. Smith: Cloudflare explains why Kiwi Farms was its most dangerous customer ever
In a short time, Cloudflare watched as Kiwi Farms mutated from a valid customer in need of Cloudflare’s protection from cybersecurity attacks conducted by people complaining about the “revolting content” it hosts to suddenly appearing to pose an “imminent threat
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Won’t Somebody Please Think of the Children?!
Jason DeParle: Expanded Safety Net Drives Sharp Drop in Child Poverty
In 1993, safety net programs cut child poverty by 9 percent from what it would have been absent the aid. By 2019, those programs had cut child poverty by 44 percent, and the number of children they removed from poverty more than tripled to
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The Oddest iPhone 14 Take I’ve Seen
Damon Beres: The iPhone Isn’t Cool
And—this is real—there’s a new “Emergency SOS” feature, which will allow an iPhone 14 to connect to a satellite and call for help if you’re lost or trapped, a victim of a crime, or imperiled by fire. Apple promoted this with a video of
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I’m Over the Mac App Store
Mac App Store: Mac App Store and investing engineering time
In the short term, I will definitely accept a hybrid solution. When faced with the choice, we need to focus our engineering time on the 90% of our users using the direct version. That reality is a bitter pill to swallow for a team that
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I am Totally Dependent on Everyone Else
The Steve Jobs Archive is a brand new site for making available numerous Steve Jobs-related things. Currently, it'
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I Want USB-C on the iPhone, but Not Like This
John Gruber: ‘Democrats Want to Outlaw Apple From Thinking Differently’
Charging-port-regulation proponents often tell me the regulations are no impediment to progress at all. If someone comes up with a better-than-USB-C charging port, they can just bring it to the industry’s USB consortium and it’ll get approved and
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The One Thing Republicans Care About
Charles M. Blow: Republicans Are America’s Problem
However, her loss does crystallize something for us that many had already known: that the bar to clear in the modern Republican Party isn’t being sufficiently conservative but rather being sufficiently obedient to Donald Trump and his quest to deny and destroy democracy.
As far as
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Not That Sort of Club
Nexus Mods is a great site for finding fun mods to PC games, and I use it all the time. It's where I got the "easy mode" mod that turned Elden Ring into one of my favorite games of the year, for example.
They were in the news this week which
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Gaming on a Mac is Still Blah
Digital Foundry does the best technical gaming analysis out there, and it was awesome to see them take a rare look at Mac gaming this week. They compared a maxed-out Mac Studio with the M1 Ultra and compared it to several PC systems to see how it stacked up.
You should watch the video,
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Our (maybe) Metaverse Delusion
John Gruber on Meta:
I take Zuckerberg at face value that he’s more or less betting the company on “the metaverse”. But to me their efforts on that front feel less like “We know exactly what experiences we’re trying to create that will be more compelling than anything that exists today and will
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Google's Plan to Promote Political Spam Emails will Proceed
Makena Kelly: Gmail is now officially allowed to spam-proof politicians’ emails
Google’s plan, first reported by Axios in June, would allow for candidates, political party committees, and leadership political action committees to apply for the program that would make their messages exempt from Gmail’s spam detection systems. While Google did not need
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I’ll Bet You Never Heard of this $4 Billion Company
Global Payments to acquire EVO for $4 billion
Global Payments is to acquire smaller rival EVO Payments for nearly $4 billion in an all-cash deal that will extend its reach in the B2B sector. Headquartered in Atlanta, EVO currently offers merchant acquiring and paymens processing services to more than 550,000 merchants in over
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Proxy Icons are Hidden in Plain Sight
Nick Heer: The Many Capabilities of Proxy Icons
The proxy icon should not be treated as a secret, hidden feature. It is so much more dignified and capable than that.
I've been using the Mac since 1995, I've been entrenched in the Apple community since around 2004, and hand to my
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Is Your North Star Quality or Quantity?
Om Malik: The problem with Facebook
Meta’s north star doesn’t take into account value to the users, the benefit to the larger ecosystem or even the experience. Instead it is about how the company’s users time can be translated into dollars for the sole benefit for Meta.
This vibes with what I
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The Vibe Shift I've Been Waiting For
Meg Walters: Anne Hathahate was rooted in misogyny - and a new generation aren’t standing for it
Our sudden acceptance of the earnest celebrity isn’t merely a fluke – it’s a symptom of a much larger cultural shift. As a new generation comes of age, new values, priorities and perspectives are also taking hold.
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Yet Another Crypto Disaster
Ed Zitron: The Consequences of Silence
There are about a hundred different letters to the judge, many of them speaking of the fear and depression caused by having money that they desperately need to help keep their families fed locked up in Celsius’ coffers.
These stories are heartbreaking. For a movement that's supposedly
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You Don't Have to Use Instagram
Jared Polin commenting on Instagram's shift to video:
It is what it is. Instagram needs to evolve to survive, whether we like the changes or not. It's still our choice to be there or not be there, as it's a free service that we don't pay for,
