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The Web is More Than a Document Viewer
The Web is for More Than Document Viewing | CSS-Tricks
A super-capable open web is excellent. It means we can build things on open standards on the open web rather than things on proprietary technologies in walled gardens. It’s the better place to build things. URLs alone are a reason to build on
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I Subscribe to Way Too Many Newsletters…These are my Favorites
I haven’t done a good List of Things I Like post in a while, so here goes! Here are some of the newsletters I subscribe to and enjoy basically every time they hit my inbox. And by doing this, I realized…wow, I subscribe to a lot!
Platformer by Casey Newton (daily, $10/month)
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The Best Explanation of RAW Photography I’ve Ever Seen
Understanding ProRAW. A journey into cameras, RAW, and a look… | by Ben Sandofsky | Dec, 2020 | Halide
To understand what makes it so special, the first half of this post explains how a digital camera develops a photo. Then we go on to explain the strengths and weaknesses of traditional RAWs. Finally, we dive into what’
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The “Force Closing Apps Makes Your iPhone Faster” of Macs
Is Google Chrome slowing down your Mac performance? - 9to5Mac
What piqued my interest was the technical side of this story, and some questions that I thought of while I was reading Loren’s report. Those questions were: Is it possible for a process to hide itself from Activity Monitor while it is running? When does
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Google Chrome F.U.D.
Chrome Is Bad | Hacker News
It's a single anecdote that deleting Chrome on two computers sped them up. It provides zero evidence (even anecdotal) that it has anything to do with "Keystone" specifically. It provides zero evidence for the idea that "Keystone" is able to "nefariously hide itself
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The Portrayal of OCD in Black Swan
The Portrayal of OCD in Darren Aronofsky's 'Black Swan'
Nina is a fascinating and nuanced portrayal of living with OCD in times of massive stress. It is not just about perfection, but about punishment and constant anxiety. While her mental health is sensationalized for shocking and dazzling visuals, the quieter moments
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Providing “Balance” to the M1 Optimism
Daring Fireball: M1 Macs: Truth and Truthiness
Patrick Moorhead’s M1 Mac review can be paraphrased as “Intel and AMD have learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make decent PC chips. Apple hasn’t just magically figured this out. They’re not going to just walk in.”
The difference
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The Little Guys
Ben Thompson (emphasis mine):
Amazon, meanwhile, is increasingly where shopping searches start, particularly for Prime customers, and the company’s ad business is exploding. Needless to say, Amazon doesn’t need to request special permission for IDFAs or to share emails with 3rd parties to finely target its ads: everything is self-contained, and to
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Instagram is Changing the Direction of Watch Fashion
Instagram has totally changed how watches are designed | WIRED UK
[I]t should be little surprise that the watch world has witnessed a colour explosion in the past two years, alongside a profound loosening of once-rigid codes around style. Not long ago, the appearance of a blue watch dial was considered newsworthy […] now dials
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Lord of the Rings in 4K HDR is Here
Lord of the Rings, The: The Motion Picture Trilogy (4K UHD Review)
Does this new 4K remaster really make that big of a difference? Is the image and sound really improved over the previous Blu-ray release? The answer to that is: HELL yes. However, if you don’t already have them, you’ll need
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When the Mac Gets Touch
Apple: No Mac-In-Touch. by Jean-Louis Gassée | by Jean-Louis Gassée | Nov, 2020 | Monday Note
Let’s rewind the clock. For years, Apple dismissed wishes of making the iPad more like a laptop as an abomination before Steve Jobs, as wanting to make the simple tablet into a complicated contraption, a toaster-fridge.
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You’re Up, iPad
Your Move, iPad | Becky Hansmeyer
Ruthlessly purge the App Store Guidelines of anything that prevents the iPad from serving as a development machine. Every kind of development from web to games should be possible on an iPad. And speaking of games—emulators should be allowed, too.
This list is great, and I support all of
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Why Japanese Websites Look Different Than You May Expect
Why Japanese Web Design Is So Different – Cultural, Linguistic & Technical Factors – Randomwire
In the mind’s eye of many
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Stretching the Limits of “Ownership” and Stadia
You're wrong about Stadia — Debunking the biggest myths - 9to5Google
Myth: You don’t own your games on Stadia
On Stadia, your purchase of a game is a license to play that game on Stadia. You can compare that to buying a game on Steam or a digital purchase on PlayStation or Xbox. The
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Helvetica Is Actually a Display Typeface
Gramatika: On Type Measurements, Hyphen Spacings and Other Minor Considerations
The truth is: Helvetica is actually a display font. It
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Rage Against the Facts
Right-Wing Social Media Had to Divorce Reality - The Atlantic
In the hours following the Arizona call, a paranoid conspiracy theory spread rapidly on Parler and in other right-wing online forums: Voters in conservative counties had been given felt-tip pens that supposedly made vote-counting machines reject the ballots that they marked for
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Be Kind to Retail Workers this this Holiday Season, All Holiday Seasons, and Frankly All the Time
This Thanksgiving, stay home. Grocery store workers will thank you. - Vox
If you’ve ever worked in retail, you already know what I’m about to tell you: Around the end of October, a sense of horror begins to build that has nothing to do with Halloween. […] I’m not sure what it is about
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Another Take on the HomePod Mini Sound Quality
HomePod Mini First Impressions - Chris Hannah
Obviously, the main part of the HomePod is what it sounds like. The original HomePod has an incredible set of speakers and can be pretty loud. With that in mind, I was expecting a speaker the size of the Mini would sound drastically different. I mean, still Apple quality,
