- The best noir movies to watch this Noirvember (Polygon)
- The best cozy board games of 2024 (Polygon)
- What’s on your desk, Kristen Radtke? (The Verge)
- Nintendo Controllers (Louie Mantia)
- Maybe It’s Social Media (Louie Mantia)
- Carving your space (Heather Buchel)
- Chip away (Elliot Jay Stocks)
- How It Went (Daring Fireball)
- A catalog. (Ethan Marcotte)
- Two books, no longer apart. (Ethan Marcotte)
- The childlike and the childish (Josh Collinsworth)
- Rum Advent Calendar (2024 Edition) – Drinks By The Dram (Spoiler Free) (The Rum Barrel Blog)
- The Kids Are (Naz Hamid)
- The Work Is Never Done (Naz Hamid)
- Two months at GitHub (Cassidy Williams)
- The web is a gift. The web is a weapon. (Go Make Things)
- The tech industry is about to get a lot worse (Go Make Things)
- Fave things I ate at Disneyland (Lynn Fisher)
- Movies Watched, October 2024 (Khoi Vinh)
- ADHD (Brad Frost)
- Just enough news (Cory Dransfeldt)
News
- Apple will let you share AirTag locations with a link
- Brief clip of Firewatch follow-up In the Valley of Gods looks amazing
- Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week — A lot of web developers I follow have moved to Bluesky recently. The thing I’m most missing from Bluesky is a nice app like Ivory (or Tweetbot 😢), specifically the timeline syncing feature. I hate that every time I open the Bluesky app, it starts me at the most recent posts rather than where I left off.
- The NYT Tech Guild’s election week strike is over
- Nvidia’s new app replacement for GeForce Experience is now out of beta
- Apple is reportedly working on an Apple Home security camera
- Obscure Martin Brodeur nickname on ‘Jeopardy!’ perplexes fans
- VMware Workstation and Fusion are now free for everyone
- Apple’s rumored six-inch ‘AI wall tablet’ could control your smart home by March 2025
- Final Fantasy games are coming to Apple Arcade
- Workers at Bethesda parent company strike over remote work policies
- EA Sports will add Professional Women’s Hockey League to NHL 25
- Threads might get ads early next year — I was initially excited about Threads, but how much can you really trust something owned by Facebook?
- GOG’s new preservation program intends to keep classic games playable ‘forever’
- PayPal will let you pool money for group gifts and shared expenses
- Apple faces a new $3.75 billion antitrust lawsuit over iCloud storage
- Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts
- Pokémon TCG Pocket will let you trade cards starting early next year
- The Onion just bought Infowars — This is by far the best news of the week. 🤣
- Half-Life 2 is getting a huge 20th anniversary update
- Gabe Newell says Half-Life 2: Episode 3 didn’t happen because he was ‘stumped’
- NFL fans worry Netflix’s bad Tyson vs. Paul stream means it can’t handle football
- Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake: a straightforward, old-school RPG
- Apple’s Lightning-to-3.5mm headphone adapter may be going away