Notes from my week.
Links
- We All Are Ukraine
- Catwoman vs. the White House
- You can now play Valve’s free 30-minute Portal spinoff, even if you don’t have a Steam Deck
- Watch Valve’s Gabe Newell deliver Steam Decks to mostly confused customers
- A ransomware group paid the price for backing Russia
- The best video doorbell camera to buy right now
- PSA: You can order a second round of free COVID tests starting next week
- EA is removing Russian teams from its FIFA and NHL games
- Epic Games is acquiring music platform Bandcamp
- CalDigit’s TS4 is the new king of Thunderbolt docks
- Futurama’s revival will feature the original voice of Bender after all
- Ukrainians Were Prepared to Defend Their Country: “Who Else But Us?”
- IE Down, Edge Up… Global Browser Usage Stats Are for Cocktail Parties and Conference Slides
- Valve ‘more than happy’ to help Microsoft bring PC Game Pass to Steam
- The 15 minute fix vs the 30 day fix
- Bullet Train’s first trailer is a warning about quiet cars
- Trailing Slashes on URLs: Contentious or Settled?
- How Tristan Jarry ‘flushed’ Pittsburgh Penguins’ playoff misfortune
- Watch The Verge’s Steam Deck review
- The impact of hockey’s Russian backlash, and what’s next
- Sony and Honda plan to make electric vehicles together
- Verizon Plus Play will bundle customer subscriptions for Netflix, Peloton, Disney Plus, and more
- Russian ‘fake news’ law could give offenders 15 years in prison
- Russia says it’s blocking Facebook in alarming new censorship push
- The Steam Deck’s FSR vividly shows why a Nintendo Switch Pro would rule
- The Nintendo Switch changed what I want from video games
- Five years on, Breath of the Wild’s open world is still unmatched
- Azio Cascade review: a surprisingly solid wireless mechanical keyboard
Podcasts
- ShopTalk Show — 504: Jim Nielsen Blogging, App Icons, Color, and Images
- Syntax — 435: This vs That × map vs reduce, forEach vs for in, and more!
- One Footer in the Grave — 6: Savoy cabbage and the kalettes
Reading
- Started Atomic Habits
Watched
- NHL: Penguins-Lightning
- The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
- The Incredibles
- NHL: Penguins-Hurricanes
- Drive My Car
- DuckTales
Played
- Horizon Zero Dawn (PS4/PS5)
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (PC, Steam)