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Apple Could Make Podcasting Better for Everyone
John Gruber: Nilay Patel and Walt Mossberg on Spotify’s Ambitions to Dominate Podcasting
Apple’s not doing nothing in the podcast space, but it seems to me that their Apple Podcasters Program that launched last year hasn’t really had much of an uptake. I could be wrong about that. But even if Apple’
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What if Apple Ran Their Physical Stores Like their App Store?
Jason Snell: Apple's worst-case scenario might be the best thing for the iPhone
A no-longer-exclusive App Store might tighten its rules and become more opinionated. It might even be more willing to reject shady developers, blast scam apps, and decline certain types of apps altogether. Apple acts as if today’
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A Unified Code Base
1Password is adding tools to generate and store SSH keys, which is lovely, but this thread on Hacker News expressed concern with how it was implemented. In response, someone from the 1Password team had their devs implement a fix quickly.
We spoke about it internally many times in the past but couldn't get
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Your NFT is Probably a Copy of a Copy of a Copy… (even if it's legit)
Slidebean's latest video about NFTs:
You can take Paul's Photoshop file and copy it, reproduce it, and it wouldn't lose a single pixel of quality, but there's still only one original file; the one that Paul Campion worked on when he was producing Lord of the Rings
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In 2022, Cloud Gaming Should be Additive, Not the Whole Product
Kingdom Hearts Fans Aren't Happy With The Switch Cloud Releases - George Foster
Towards the end of Sora's Super Smash Bros. Ultimate reveal trailer, Square added another tease for Kingdom Hearts fans - all of the games up until that point coming to the Nintendo Switch. There was one catch though, that they
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Why I (well, Lloyd Coombes) Blog Using Drafts
Why I blog using Drafts - Lloyd Coombes
It’s a utilitarian approach, and yet there’s something I love about that. Perhaps even better, Drafts will let me share my text in a variety of ways. I can fire stuff over to a million different apps, or export into HTML to copy into WordPress.
While
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Maybe It’s Not Confidence Holding You Back
Is Confidence the Secret to Success? Not Exactly.
Over time, Dr. Gill said, they realized that “inequalities were being explained away through this psychological characteristic of confidence.” Their research is distilled in “Confidence Culture,” a feminist cultural critique that will be published by Duke University Press on Feb. 9. The book skewers the notion that
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Just Some Plain Good News
A Cancer Treatment Makes Leukemia Vanish, but Creates More Mysteries
Dr. June and his colleagues, Dr. J. Joseph Melenhorst and Dr. Porter, report that the CAR T treatment made the cancer vanish in two out of the three patients in that early trial. All had chronic lymphocytic leukemia. The big surprise, though, was that even
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The Six Colors Report Card
Apple in 2021: The Six Colors report card
John Siracusa said, “Every new Mac Apple introduced in 2021 was a hit. The new MacBook Pros have rescued that product line after years of decline and dysfunction. The multi-colored 24-inch iMac is a breath of fresh air after nearly two decades of white and
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Security Updates End for Google's 2018 Flagship
Pixel 3 and 3 XL get final update with February security patch
Google today rolled out the final update for the Pixel 3 and 3 XL.
For reference, the Pixel 3 came out a month after the iPhone XS. Imagine if iOS 16 was announced at WWDC and Apple said it would support the iPhone
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It’s More Than 3%
John Gruber: Going Dutch
Consider Stripe, which is incredibly popular (and deservedly so). Stripe charges 2.9% plus $0.30 per transaction. That’s very fair and delightfully simple, but while that extra 30 cents per transaction is negligible for large transactions, for small ones, it’s very significant. Consider a $10 in-app purchase
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Malleable Software
Settings are not a design failure
While I was reorganizing my phone, I had a sudden realization: Settings are typically seen as the result of design failure. The thinking goes that as designers, our goal is to create product experiences that don’t require any adjustments by the user. Consequently, offering customization options is interpreted
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Why Luke Skywalker Might Have Weirded You Out
The Unbridled and Mildly Horrifying Evolution of CGI Luke Skywalker
Read this horrifying description of Respeecher from a sound editor who worked on the series, Matthew Wood: "It's a neural network you feed information into and it learns," Wood says. "So I had archival material from Mark in that era.
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What College Students Really Think About Cancel Culture
What College Students Really Think About Cancel Culture
Though self-censorship is a problem in academia—more than 80 percent of college kids say that they self-censor at least some of the time, according to one study—not all students agree with the adults who are catastrophizing.
I don’t really understand this metric,
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Take The State of Switch Survey!
Chris Brandrick does a weekly (week #268 just went out) newsletter called Switch Weekly, and it covers all the Nintendo
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WordleForever is a Gift from the Heavens
Federico Viticci and Finn Voorhees have teamed up to make something amazing:
So in the spirit of game preservation (a topic I care deeply about) and out of skepticism regarding the future of Wordle as a NYT product, I teamed up with Finn Voorhees to create WordleForever, a shortcut that lets you back up the
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I Hope the AirPods Max Don’t Lose the Crown
AirPods Max 2 could feature touch controls instead of a Digital Crown
Touch controls on AirPods Max 2 could make it easier to jump songs, invoke Siri, turn the volume up or down, and more. As of now, having the Digital Crown is still a pretty clever and unique feature to Apple’s premium headphones.
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The ’80S Are Back, Baby
The ’80s Are Back, Baby
VHS grain, airbrush art and officecore prop use is too widespread to list every occurrence, though one particular spot of interest is how fully these motifs form the backbone of Coach’s Spring 2022 social campaigns, including ’80s- and ’90s-era details as specific as faux 1-800 numbers and
