Notes from my week.
- Attended the virtual axe-con accessibility conference.
- St. Patrick’s Day! 🇮🇪 🍀
- We bought new LEGO storage from IKEA, so much of the weekend was spent sorting LEGO bricks. We are going to try out having them organized by color.
Links
- CSS-Tricks is joining DigitalOcean! — That’s some big news! Congratulations to Chris and everyone else who make CSS-Tricks such a great resource.
- CD sales just rose for the first time in almost two decades
- Russia bans Instagram as promised, blocking access for 80 million users
- Apple’s new iPhone SE is a modern phone stuck in yesterday’s design
- A Stream Deck Mini is the perfect little Zoom controller
- iOS 15.4 now live as Universal Control comes to iPads and Macs
- Twitter rolls back its decision to force you into the out-of-order timeline
- National wastewater monitoring system only has buy-in from a handful of states
- Intel’s AMD bug find proves that Spectre is still looming over us
- SNL on Amazon Go’s Grab-and-Go Shopping Experience
- Netflix is testing ways to end password sharing and push viewers to pay extra
- Why Netflix is starting to crack down on password sharing
- ‘Scott, You Don’t Understand’
- Google Domains is finally out of beta after more than seven years
- Apple iPad Air (2022) review: it’s the nice one
- Washington Capitals’ Alex Ovechkin passes Jaromir Jagr for third on NHL career goals list
- Why It’s Almost Impossible to Lose Anything in Japan
- Brilliant Slowed Down 80s Pop Hits by Alvin & the Chipmunks
- GTAV’s improved next-gen load times make the game so much faster
- GTA Online’s next-gen version is prettier and easier to get into
- The original Winamp skin is selling as an NFT
- Google Home app gets much-needed redesign with interactive buttons
- Mike Myers returns to multi-character comedy in his Netflix show The Pentaverate
- MGM is now part of Amazon
- Apple Mac Studio review: finally
- Apple Studio Display review: nothing to see here
- Lego’s new Back to the Future set finally does the DeLorean right
- A Demo of Pockit, a Tiny, Powerful, Modular Computer
- Apple’s latest watchOS update includes a recovery mode, of sorts
- Microsoft says Windows 11 File Explorer ads were ‘not intended to be published externally’
- Vimeo is telling creators to suddenly pay thousands of dollars — or leave the platform
- Ms. Marvel’s first trailer teases a cosmic take on Kamala Khan
- Universal Control is Apple’s most impressive new feature in years
- How WordPress and Tumblr are keeping the internet weird
- How Galaxy Quest’s Thermian Aliens Were Created
- ESPN gets updated with support for Apple’s SharePlay feature
- Watch 14 minutes of gameplay from Hogwarts Legacy, the upcoming Harry Potter RPG
- Microsoft Edge now automatically generates image labels for screen readers
- Logitech G413 TKL SE review: you get what you pay for
Podcasts
- ShopTalk Show — 506: 15m vs 30 Day Fix, Using Prisma, Infrastructure as Code, and Kirby CMS
- Syntax — 436: Wes and Scott React to the State of JS
- Syntax — 438: Part 2 of Wes and Scott React to the State of JS
Reading
- Continued Atomic Habits
Watched
- NHL: Penguins-Predators
- Station Eleven
- NHL: Penguins-Blues
- Lilo & Stitch
- Spider-Man: No Way Home
- NHL: Penguins-Coyotes
Played
- Horizon Zero Dawn (PS4/PS5)
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (PC, Steam)