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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
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Podcast Recommendation: The Fault Line, Bush, Blair, and Iraq
This new podcast from David Dimbleby takes a look at the Bush-Blair relationship and how it played into the…
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AOC Plays Among Us, and People Were Into It
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Streams On Twitch With Hasan Piker And Pokimane, Draws Over 430,000 Viewers
Between their own channels,
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Representation in Games Improved Dramatically in 2020
More Video Games Featured Women This Year. Will It Last? | WIRED
Statistically, this year represents a significant improvement, with about 18 percent of games shown featuring female characters. In fact, this represents a new high, almost doubling the previous (dismal) record of 9 percent from 2014, our first year collecting this data.
And:
Reasons to
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Aundre Larrow’s Portrait Project - Shot on the iPhone 12
Shooting an Intimate Portrait Project with the Unreleased iPhone 12 Pro
“The thing I really like about working with them
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The Most Important iPhone Camera Review
iPhone 12 Pro Camera Review: Glacier — Austin Mann
Traditionally, RAW files themselves can’t be edited. When adjustments are made,
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Why Newsletters? Some Answers
Numeric Citizen in response to my request for insight into the newsletter hype:
Link posts can be done in newsletters and they won’t go viral for sure. But, I’m not really looking for this kind of fame to be honest.
It’s definitely worth noting that maximizing readers is not always the goal.
