- The Next Phase of Eleventy: Return of the Side Project
- Visual Editing Comes To The Headless CMS
- Municipal broadband is breaking Big Telecom’s hold on the internet
- The FCC wants to regulate broadband data caps again
- Jeremy Keith — Button types
- Pollution from gas stoves can be worse than secondhand smoke
- Reddit removed moderators behind the latest protests before restoring a few of them
- What we’re learning from the Reddit blackout
- Reddit is about to get a little less accessible
- Reddit pressures mods to end the blackout as they find new ways to protest
- DPReview isn’t being shut down thanks to new ownership
- Super Mario RPG is getting a remake for Nintendo Switch
- Opera launches revamped browser equipped with an AI sidekick
- Adobe XD is on life support ahead of Figma acquisition
- Five AI tools creators should know
- The FTC’s case against Microsoft could turn into Xbox vs. PlayStation
- Sony’s PlayStation chief privately said Microsoft’s Activision deal wasn’t about Xbox exclusives
- Bethesda’s Indiana Jones game is exclusive to Xbox and PC
- Microsoft acquired Bethesda after hearing Starfield would be exclusive to PlayStation
- Across the Spider-Verse’s animators allegedly worked under unsustainable conditions
- Secret Invasion studio under fire for AI art says ‘no artists’ jobs’ were lost
- Chris Coyier — sizes=auto is a great idea
Month: June 2023
Weekly Links 06.12–06.18
- PHOTO TOUR: New Indiana Jones Den of Destiny Prop Gallery & Bar at Hollywood Studios
- Apple MacBook Air 15-inch review: Apple’s Big Air era
- Star Wars Outlaws gameplay looks like Grand Theft Auto: Tatooine
- Forgetting How to Be Yourself
- Vintage Analog Photo Booths
- Western Digital NAS drives flash three-year ‘warning’ in Synology DSM
- Microsoft has been temporarily restrained from buying Activision Blizzard, judge rules
- Google Home launches its new smart home automation script editor
- Before She Was Famous: Demo Tape of Madonna Performing With Her Post-Punk Band
- Dave Rupert — Vibe Check №27
- Plotter, Sunsama, and Notion: A Simple Hybrid Productivity System
- How We Created our Master Resource Database
- Jeff Abbott’s Must-Have Productivity Apps
- Mike Schmitz’s Must-Have Productivity Apps
- Jermey Keith — Add view transitions to your website
- Dave Rupert — A guy telling peanut butter jokes for 12 minutes
- Dave Rupert — Markdown images are an anti-pattern
- Dave Rupert — My double standards about JS framework compilers
- The Best Illusions of 2023 Contest
- Sony starts testing cloud streaming PS5 games
- Nvidia’s RTX 4060 will be available to order on June 29th
- Apollo Remastered
- It’s not just you: Steam suddenly looks nice
- The New Rubik’s Cube World Record Is Just 3.13 Seconds
- The Supreme Court Just Made This Gerrymandered Map Illegal
- Daring Fireball: Apple’s Game Porting Toolkit Is Already Showing Results
- Chris Coyier — margin-trim as a best practice?
- Chris Coyier — Google Passkeys
- Chris Coyier — New File Here
- Chris Coyier — Two Things That are Not Great About OKLCH
- The Verge’s favorite travel gear
- The 2023 Father’s Day Gift Guide
- Reducing Complexity in Front End Development
- Google Domains is shutting down, and its assets are going to Squarespace — I got burned again. You really can’t depend on Google to keep any of their services running.
- Apple Mac Studio (2023) review: the M2 Ultra rips
Smart home
The Verge published several smart home articles this week.
- What is a smart home, and do you need one?
- Apple Home, Google Home, or Amazon Alexa? How to pick the right smart home platform for you
- From brilliant to basic, here are our smart home setups
- Google Home: How to start a smart home
- Apple Home: How to start a smart home
- Home Assistant: How to start a smart home
- Smart home security: your questions answered
There was a lot of drama at Reddit this week.
- More than 6,000 subreddits have gone dark to protest Reddit’s API changes
- Reddit starts crashing as subreddit blackout keeps growing
- Reddit communities with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely
- Apollo’s developer on Reddit’s new API changes, and why users revolted
- Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts
- Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: Reddit ‘was never designed to support third-party apps’
- Reddit says it won’t force subreddits back open (but will it?)
- Reddit CEO Steve Huffman isn’t backing down: our full interview
- Here’s the note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if they don’t reopen
- Three of the biggest Reddit communities now only feature John Oliver posts
Weekly Links 06.05–06.11
- Why Does Jack Nicholson Repeatedly Break the Fourth Wall in The Shining?
- Major Reddit communities will go dark to protest threat to third-party apps
- Apollo for Reddit is shutting down
- Reddit’s users and moderators are revolting against its CEO
- 1Password users can now preview passwordless sign-on technology
- The 2023 Food Photographer of the Year Awards
- WordPress has a new AI tool that will write blog posts for you
- Jeremy Keith — Reaction
- Instagram’s upcoming Twitter competitor shown in leaked screenshots
- Marvel Snap adds a competitive ladder with new Conquest mode
- Star Wars: Outlaws is a new open-world Star Wars game from Ubisoft
Apple WWDC news
- Apple’s new 15-inch MacBook Air is the ‘world’s thinnest’
- Apple’s iOS 17 is official with better autocorrect and StandBy
- Apple’s new journaling app turns your iPhone into a digital diary
- Apple is changing the ‘Hey Siri’ trigger phrase to just ‘Siri’ in iOS 17
- Apple’s iPadOS 17 adds personalized lock screen and interactive widgets
- Apple announces macOS Sonoma with game mode and support for desktop widgets
- Apple announces widgets will return to watchOS 10 at WWDC
- FaceTime is coming to Apple TV with tvOS 17
- Standby is a new iOS 17 feature for your iPhone that could be great for Apple Home users
- Apple Vision Pro is Apple’s new $3,499 AR headset
- Apple upgrades WebKit, adds new features to Safari
- Apple announces visionOS, the operating system for its Vision Pro headset
- Apple News Plus is getting crossword puzzles with iOS 17
- For better or worse, Apple is avoiding the AI hype train
- With iOS 17, Apple lets you share AirTags with friends and family
- iPadOS 17 finally supports external USB webcams and cameras
- Apple’s new Proton-like tool can run Windows games on a Mac
- Apple’s Journal app needs to read the room
- Apple’s 15-inch MacBook Air is a perfect response to slowing Mac revenue
- Apple TVs with tvOS 17 will get native VPN support
Weekly Links 05.29–06.04
- Mimestream review: this is the Mac app Gmail users need
- Windows 11 is adding a one-stop RGB lighting shop
- Netflix’s password-sharing crackdown is here — and it costs $7.99 per month
- Netflix might ruin password sharing for everyone
- Govee LED Strip Light M1 Matter review: A bright and colorful smart light that’s compatible with everything
- Opera is getting its own AI side panel to match Edge
- Windows 11 is getting a force quit option to close apps without the Task Manager
- Sony’s new Q handheld is official: 8-inch screen, streams PS5 games
- The Arc browser’s Boosts feature lets you change how any website looks
- Belkin’s fast-charging Apple Watch power bank might be witchcraft
- Walmart Onn Google TV box review: the best $20 deal in streaming
- Apple’s original cloud photo sync service shuts down this summer
- Wyze’s Cam Floodlight Pro lights up when it recognizes cars and people
- Google quietly ends support for decade-old Chromecast
- Windows 11 gets some useful widgets for CPU, memory, and GPU monitoring
- Sony’s small but mighty XB100 speaker is cheerful and very cheap
- The unsung heroes of the Apple Watch are its hidden band release buttons
- A developer says Reddit could charge him $20 million a year to keep his app working
- Telly dual-screen TV first look: it’s free and may be the future
- Web Roulette — A Swipeable Randomized Web Browser
- Fighting Fascism in America
- Is Ozempic an Anti-Addiction Drug?
- Going to High School in an Old Department Store
- The Immaculate Copy of the Declaration of Independence Found Hidden Behind a $4 Flea Market Painting
- The 100 Greatest Children’s Books of All Time
- Ze Frank on Slime Molds
- Penguins hire Kyle Dubas as President of Hockey Operations