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Not the Podcast Recommendation You Might Expect
I don’t know much at all about fashion, but I decided to try out In Vogue: The 1990s, and
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The DuckDuckGo Conundrum in a Nutshell
Here’s a bit from a Hacker News comment that stuck with me:
If I know the site where I
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The Foxconn Con
Still a whole lotta nothing, huh?
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We Fight Those Misrepresentations Because They are False
Feminists know that women with ambition are called “monstrous” or that women who are not heterosexual are pathologised. We fight those misrepresentations because they are false and because they reflect more about the misogyny of those who make demeaning caricatures than they do about the complex soc
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VS Code is a Behemoth
The Era of Visual Studio Code | Roben Kleene
VS Code is the most popular text editor today. It’s so
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The Forthcoming Xbox App Update is Just a Taste of What's Possible
Upcoming Xbox App Update Will Let Xbox Users Stream Games to iPhone and iPad - MacRumors
Xbox's streaming
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I'm Not Putting Any More Amazon Smart Devices in My Home
LifeHacker has a good breakdown (with the excellent title, How to Preorder Everything New and Creepy From Amazon's
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There is an Ocean of Possibility Out There for Great Software
The Power and Paradox of Bad Software | WIRED
There are big platforms that help people do all kinds of work.
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What if This Got You Excited?
I can sympathize with this story of getting legitimately excited about a game because you see people like you in a video game, but I can’t really empathize with it.
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It’s No Longer in My Dock
This is how I’ve changed with Things as well. It’s my most used app on my iPhone, but it’s icon lives in the app library now. The 2x2 widget shows me how many tasks I have left for the day, as well as the next 4 on my schedule.
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We’re Living Through a Revolution in Note Taking
This feels to me like when the iPhone came out and all other phone makers had to go, “oh, we need to think about things differently, and we absolutely need to steal a bunch of these new ideas because we’re going to get left in the dust if we don’t”.
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Xbox and PlayStation Pre-Orders Have Been a Disaster
Pre-orders for both Sony and Microsoft’s new game consoles have been a mess. Here’s what’s going on.
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The New Apple Watch's Slightly Larger Battery
iFixit Apple Watch Series 6 Teardown Finds Larger Battery and Bigger Taptic Engine in Thinner Casing
Apple is using a
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The Selflessness of Developers
Otto Nagengast:
What do the maintainers get for all of the work, stress, and abuse? Money? Maybe they’re lucky
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Eventually the Problem is Bigger than the Room
The company released version 10 of their app to iOS yesterday, and I for one am looking forward to seeing what they have in store now that they've tamed their back-end woes.
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RIP Pelaton (or maybe not)
Bradley Chambers:
It’s certainly cheaper to buy your own bike, sign up for Peloton Digital, and just watch the
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OMG OnePlus
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection put out a press release on Friday:
On August 31, CBP officers seized
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The Undue Focus on Work About Work
In truth the problem with work is not the tools or the physical location, but the obsession with leadership , an undue focus on work about work.