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Auston Mann on the Difference Between the 12 Pro and 12 Pro Max Cameras
Austin Mann with the quote I was hoping as a 12 Pro owner:
I shot in tons of different lighting scenarios, and frankly in many of the scenes both cameras rendered a beautiful image and I could barely see a difference between iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max.
Phew! I gambled on getting
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Animal Crossing Crushed in 2020
The Nintendo Switch has now sold more than the NES
Since its launch in March the island life sim has
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Your Regular Reminder that Pokemon Go Has Been Huge All Along
Morning Brew
It’s all Meowth money showers right now over at Niantic, the company behind the 2016 breakout augmented reality app, Pokémon Go. Turns out it wasn’t the summer fad we all thought it was.
So far this year, players have spent about $1 billion in the app, according to Sensor Tower, a
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Lying with Statistics
How claims of voter fraud were supercharged by bad science | MIT Technology Review
Unsurprisingly, conservatives ran with this new support for their old narrative and have continued to do so. The study’s fans include President Trump, who used it to justify the creation of his short-lived and failed commission on voter fraud, and
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I Feel Hollow Without Creativity
Newsletters vs Blogging - Tablet Habit
I feel that I no longer want to make money with my writing and instead want this to be a creative outlet for me. I don’t want this to be a job, I want this to be a hobby. I am a creative person and I need a creative
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Notion’s Onboarding Experience
Notion's Onboarding Experience: A Case of Simplicity and Delightfulness
Their Personal Onboarding experience is that simple. They use simple language, simple illustrations, and simple design to guide you through the most important stage of any online service. It’s a make-or-break point and Notion’s got it right.
Notion definitely does
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IFTTT Ain’t Quite It Anymore
Goodbye IFTTT | Ben Congdon
Similarly, in the past couple years IFTTT's UI has leaned heavily into the “applet” metaphor, with these big goofy toggle switches to enable/disable automations. The site also transitioned towards a focus on community- (or, more often corporate-) created automations, at the expense of the experience for creating your
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Covid Hasn’t Killed Commerce
Resetting online commerce — Benedict Evans
There are half a dozen huge industries where all of the cards are being thrown up in the air, and no-one really knows where they’re going to land. The Covid lockdowns of 2020 and 2021 are catalysing and accelerating all sorts of changes - we’re getting five years
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Majora’s Mask is Particularly Relevant in 2020
Majora's Mask Is Still The Best Zelda Game Ever Made — Especially In 2020
Majora’s Mask defined some of the best and most human parts of every Zelda game that has come to pass since its launch this time 20 years ago. It’s funny to think that now, its most innovative and
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How Journalists Use youtube-dl
Music industry forces widely used journalist tool offline
In fact, youtube-dl is a powerful general purpose media tool that allows users to make local copies of media from a very broad range of sites. That versatility has secured it a place in the toolkits of many reporters, newsroom developers, and archivists. For now, the
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Speaking of Environmentally Conscious, Sustainable, Repairable Phones
Fairphone 3 Plus review: sustainability comes with compromises - The Verge
If you are someone who wants a more ethical and sustainable alternative to a budget £200 device, then the Fairphone 3 Plus delivers. It’ll serve your needs in the same way as a budget smartphone will in 2020 but at a price premium that
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An Insider on the Constant Campaign to Make Non-American Healthcare Look Like an Apocalypse
Health insurance whistleblower: I lied to Americans about Canadian medicine - The Washington Post
Of the many regrets I have about what I once did for a living, one of the biggest is slandering Canada’s health-care system. If the United States had undertaken a different kind of reform in 2009 (or anytime since), one
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It’s a Great Idea with No Consequences. As Long as we Don’t Talk About the Consequences
Opinion | What Fans of ‘Herd Immunity’ Don’t Tell You - The New York Times
So the idea of returning to something akin to normal — releasing everyone from a kind of jail — is attractive, even seductive. It becomes less seductive when one examines three enormously important omissions in the declaration.
And from The Wall Street Journal
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Sketch: Proudly, a Native Mac App
Sketch — Part of your world: Why we’re proud to build a truly native Mac app
For us, the ultimate benefit of being a native macOS app is that it puts the choice in your hands. Like we said above, we’re always working hard to make Cloud a great place to collaborate, but if
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The Fundamental, Iconic iPhone Design
Why great design is timeless – On my Om
It takes a lot for something to be instantly identifiable because of
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The Foxconn Wisconsin Con
Inside Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin
The renovations never arrived. Neither did the factory, the tech campus, nor the thousands of jobs. Interviews with 19 employees and dozens of others involved with the project, as well as thousands of pages of public documents, reveal a project that has defaulted
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Ulysses Continues to Earn its Subscription
Polish Your Text With Revision Mode - Ulysses Blog
Concluding a writing project usually means a phase of proofreading and editing. In Ulysses, you can now find a mode that’s been specifically designed for these tasks. Say hello to revision mode!
I’m not using revision mode on all of my posts, but I have
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The Nintendo Switch Continues to Dominate
Switch Has Now Been The Best-Selling Console In The US For 22 Consecutive Months - That's A New
