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I'm Not Sure Anything's Different This Time
Changing The Facebook Conversation - Charlie Warzel
And what Haugen is doing here is articulating a very powerful point that many Facebook users still take for granted: What you see on Facebook is not organic presentation of information. It is the result of decisions made for you by the company’s software, which follows its leaders’
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Ted Lasso is No Superhero (he's even better than that)
Ted Lasso is No Superhero - Sophie Gilbert
One character alone can’t fully rid pop culture’s masculine paradigm of
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Okay, Walmart 👀
Walmart has announced stores will be closed Thanksgiving this year:
Today, Walmart announced all U.S. store locations will close for Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, as a ‘thank you’ to associates for their continued hard work during the pandemic.
I mean okay, you're totally doing it as a "thank you to your
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Hot Takes Today, Claim Chowder Tomorrow
Daring Fireball: The AnandTech A15 SoC Performance Review
A thorough review, as usual. Interesting to contrast with Dylan Patel’s much-publicized “Apple CPU Gains Grind to a Halt and the Future Looks Dim” hot take last month, just after the Apple event.
To summarize the situation:
1. Apple announces the A15 chip and compares
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I Want to Root for the Surface Go
Microsoft Surface Go 3 review: Third time isn't quite the charm - Engadget
But the full truth of the Surface Go 3 is a little more complicated. You need to shell out at least another $100 for a keyboard. And, seeing as Windows still doesn’t offer a great tablet experience you need the
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Paddle Tries to Revamp In-App Purchases
Paddle In-App Purchase for iOS
When selling with Paddle, your apps stay on the App Store, but we make the sale – just like Apple. This means we’re liable for all the painful purchase admin, from global sales taxes to customer support. There’s nothing new for you to worry about.
Paddle might be
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What Does it Mean to be Endemic?
Everyone keeps talking about covid becoming endemic, but as I listen to the conversation, it’s becoming more & more clear to me that very few of you know what “endemic” means.
So here’s a thread on how pandemics end. pic.twitter.com/uuYinUcynb
— Dr Ellie Murray, ScD (@EpiEllie) October 1, 2021
This is
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Time to Expand the Apple Watch Lineup?
David Smith (Underscore) wrote about using a Coros Apex Pro,
The Apple Watch simply does too much. It is essentially a small iPhone, incredibly capable of a mind-bendingly wide range of tasks. This flexibility is part of its charm, its appeal. But it is also necessarily a profound stumbling block for more specialized roles.
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Your Next Task Manager Might not be a Task Manager
Your Next Productivity Tool is…. How Planner Apps Will Rise & To-Do Apps… | by Francesco D'Alessio
I believe your next to-do list application, won’t be a to-do list app. The next major productivity application will be a planner application.
Francesco makes a concise argument why traditional task managers are
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Another Reason Grindstone is Awesome
How 'Grindstone,' a Game About Matching Colors, Solved Its Colorblind Issue:
"How do we even address an
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The War for Engagement
The war for engagement - Axios
Engagement, not pay or perks, is the leading indicator — and chief reason — for the record turnover many companies are experiencing today.
I think the pandemic has made almost everyone think in a different way about what they’re doing with their lives. Whether you lost your job or not, this
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Apple’s Biggest Camera Update Yet?
iPhone 13 Pro Review: Another Step Forward – Greg Morris
I am not sure that it is, as Apple say, the biggest camera update yet, but it is a big one. With all this said most people won’t be able to tell the difference in the images from any iPhone in the last 3 years
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From Best to Worst
Daring Fireball: The Tragedy of Safari 15 for Mac’s ‘Tabs’
Apple has thrown away Safari’s tab design — a tab design that was not just best-of-platform, but arguably best-in-the-whole-damn-world — and replaced it with a design that is both inferior in the abstract, and utterly inconsistent with the
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If You Dislike Chrome, You Should Hope for a More Aggressive Safari Team
Safari is behind other web browsers in a few key ways, but that doesn’t mean that it’s the new IE, nor does it mean that all of those things are due to security.
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A Four Day Work Week? Yes, Please!
Japan gov't backs 4-day workweek, but experts split - The Mainichi
Japan's government plans to encourage firms to let their employees choose to work four days a week instead of five, aiming to improve the balance between work and life for people who have family care responsibilities or need more time
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Having Our Advertising Cake
Bloomberg: Three-Quarters of iOS Users Opt Out of Tracking — Pixel Envy
The online advertising industry has been telling us for years that consumers overwhelmingly prefer personalized ads and are only too happy to give up private information. What a crock of lies. The ad tech industry has been relying on a lack of transparency
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All Your Digital Eggs in One Basket
How Do I Know if the Grass Is Greener?
By being fully immersed in the Apple ecosystem, I’m saying to myself that I want every decision regarding my personal computing, whether it be the mobile computer, laptop computer, or the computer on my wrist, to be dependant on the ideals and decisions of one
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What We’ll Remember from the iPhone 12
Comment: After nearly a year of use, MagSafe is the defining feature of the iPhone 12 - 9to5Mac
In recent years, there have been two “takes” I’ve made on a quick judgment. They were that the AirPods wouldn’t be a product hit and that MagSafe was a solution in search of a problem. I
