Notes from my week.
- Registered for Notion’s Block by Block conference
- Continued working on my bragdoc.
- Fixed inline spell checking on my Mac, which was disabled when I briefly tried the Grammarly desktop app. (For the fix: Uninstalling “Grammarly for Mac” app breaks “Check Spelling While Typing”)
- Our church (Tallgrass) is merging with another church (The Well), so I’ve been helping to update the website with the temporary “Tallgrass at The Well” branding.
- Started working on our taxes. 💸
Links
- Netflix raises prices on all plans in US
- The trials and tribulations of turning a real camera into a webcam
- Wordle! and Wardle team up to donate proceeds from an unrelated app’s popularity spike
- How to pick a new monitor for working from home
- The Verge’s favorite tools to stay organized
- What Were the Hottest Front-End Tools in 2021?
- Minimator — A minimalist graphical editor.
- How to crack Wordle: 5-letter words to use first
- Bartender 4 Is a Must-Have App for Any MacBook Pro With a Notch
- Installing progressive web apps
- Freebie: Wayfinding Icon Sets (164 Icons, PNG, SVG, AI, EPS)
- Google changed the Assistant’s white noise sound, and many aren’t happy about it — We’ve noticed this week that the white noice on our Mini has been much more quiet.
- Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion
- Here’s everything Microsoft owns after the Activision Blizzard deal
- A guide to Microsoft’s Xbox game studios empire
- What the Activision Blizzard deal means for game devs and platforms
- With Activision, Microsoft is one gigantic step closer to game subscription dominance
- Daniel Radcliffe’s about to get real weird in Roku’s Al Yankovic biopic — “When my last movie UHF came out in 1989, I made a solemn vow to my fans that I would release a major motion picture every 33 years, like clockwork. I’m very happy to say we’re on schedule.” 😂
- COVIDTests.gov is live now, letting you order four free rapid tests
- White House says 400 million free N95 masks will be available at US pharmacies
- ‘Bob Saget’s Sublime, Filthy Comedy’
- The Moon Knight trailer puts Oscar Isaac’s Marvel hero in costume and in action
- Keychron Q2 review: Customizable keyboard addiction starts here
- AMD hides its claim that 4GB of VRAM is ‘not enough’ just as it launches a 4GB GPU
- Google will make free ‘legacy’ G Suite accounts pay for its office apps starting in July
- You can now make a Playdate game right in your browser
- Roku outage leads to frozen TVs and unresponsive devices — I wonder if this would happen if the TV was never connected to the internet. Maybe another reason to avoid these “smart” TVs (as though you have a choice).
- Windows 11 is getting a new Task Manager design
- Super Bowl 2022 won’t stream in 4K on NBC
- How to protect your PC from ransomware using Windows’ built-in protection
- 1Password has plans to get companies to actually use one password
- AirBuddy 2.5 for macOS adds better Bluetooth control for some non-Apple headphones
Podcasts
- ShopTalk Show — 498: Prepping for 500, Git Journey, Git Hooks, Parcel CSS, and some Healthy Picks
- Syntax — 423: CSS + JS Hacks We’re Fine With
- Syntax — 424: New Year, New You. What to Focus on in 2022.
Reading
- Finished Dark Age
Watched
- NHL: Penguins-Golden Knights
- NHL: Penguins-Senators
- Finished The Shrink Next Door
- Ron’s Gone Wrong
- NHL: Penguins-Blue Jackets
- Continued Bluey season 3
- Dune
- tick, tick…BOOM!
- NHL: Penguins-Jets
- NFL: AFC Divisional Playoffs — Chiefs-Bills
Played
- NHL 22 (PS5)
- Horizon Zero Dawn (PS4/PS5)
- Civilization VI (PC, Steam)
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (PC, Steam)