- 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
Category: Uncategorized
Weekly Links 05.15–05.21
- How to create an iCloud Shared Photo Library in iOS 16
- The Horror of Vintage Dutch Safety Posters
- How A24 Took Over Hollywood
- Japan’s Evaporated People
- Windows 11 users can now link their iPhones and use iMessage from a PC
- 1Password is launching passkey management next month
- iPhones will be able to speak in your voice with 15 minutes of training
- Why 2.4GHz Wi-Fi is both the savior and the scourge of the smart home
- Lego is releasing an incredible 3,981-piece Batcave from Batman Returns
- Framework Laptop 13 review: problems fixed, for a price
- Google might delete your Gmail account if you haven’t logged in for two years
- Pocket is getting a redesigned iOS app
- Belkin’s Wemo Smart Plug Mini V2 has a security problem that won’t be fixed
- Elon Musk says ‘get off your work-from-home bullshit’ — What an idiot.
- Tracking Blocked Scripts
- A Few Apps & Tips for Using ChatGPT to Boost Your Creativity and Productivity
- Carbon Capture: A New Way to Measure Your Website’s Carbon Emissions
- Cross-Posting
- Add Opacity to an Existing Color
- If you’re looking to have nested DOM elements all participate on the same CSS grid, you’ve got Subgrid, but that just inherits grid lines.
display: contents;can help put the elements on the same parent grid. - Interesting Ways to Use Hazel on macOS
- Futurama season 11 will premiere on July 24th
- Apple TV finally gets multiview for live sports
- Disney’s Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser is shutting down
- Disney will remove over 50 shows from Disney Plus and Hulu this month
- This is Instagram’s new Twitter competitor
- Getting started with View Transitions on multi-page apps
- Early Days Examples of View Transitions
- Josh’s Must-Have Productivity Apps
Weekly Links 05.08–05.14
- Lego’s Tales of the Space Age set is now available for $49.99
- Discord’s username changes have gamers rising up concerns
- Gateway 14 review: it’s blue!
- Will Google announce a Nest Hub update at I/O?
- Peridot review: Niantic’s pet game is a next-gen Tamagotchi
- Matt Birchler’s Must-Have Productivity Apps
- ☠️ WordPress to Twitter
- Google drops waitlist for AI chatbot Bard and announces oodles of new features
- Google’s new Home app is now rolling out to everyone
- Disney will bring Hulu content into Disney Plus and raise its ad-free prices
- WiZ’s motion sensing smart lights can now monitor your home
- The Whimsical Fellowship, Wes Anderson’s Lord of the Rings
Weekly Links 05.01–05.07
- The Galactic Menagerie, Wes Anderson’s Star Wars
- The future of streaming is free ad-supported TV and movies
- These are the FAST services you need to know about
- The best part of FAST TV is the choice it takes away
- Forget ad-supported streaming — here come the ad-supported TVs
- The Verge’s favorite Stream Deck hacks
- How a cleaning app tricked me into taking care of myself
- Hollywood writers to strike over low wages caused by streaming boom
- Netflix Condemns WGA Strike For Putting Future Show Cancellations Behind Schedule
- The Kidnappers Foil, the Most Remade Movie in History
- You Can Register Domain Names in iOS’s iCloud Settings
- 9 wild Disney conspiracy theories that will never die
- Nanoleaf Essentials Matter smart lights review: A better bulb
- Using Arc Boosts to identify bots in Elk
- Microsoft is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge, and IT admins are angry
- AMD makes Ryzen 7840U official, claims it can beat Apple M2
- The new Pokémon Trading Card Game app is finally launching this June
- Google is replacing Chrome’s misleading lock icon
- Discord is making all users pick a new username
- A Collection of Sci-Fi Movie Logos
- The Browser Company Is Building a Swift Development Toolchain for Windows
- ‘Nice Twitter Handle You Have There. Would Be a Real Shame if Something Happened to It.’
- Microsoft Teams is getting animated backgrounds for your meetings
- The Google Home app is finally getting garage door controls
Weekly Links 04.24–04.30
- Apple’s App Store can stay closed, but developers can link to outside payments, says appeals court
- Disneyland dragon catches fire during Fantasmic show
- WiZ smart lights are now Matter compatible
- Apple’s Weather chaos is restarting the weather app market — ForecastAdvisor
- Microsoft’s Phone Link app is now available for iOS so you can use iMessage from a PC
- Disney sues Florida for ‘government retaliation’ in escalating feud
- Pirating the Oscars 2023: The Final Curtain Call
- Apple’s Journaling App and Day One
- Microsoft is done with major Windows 10 updates
- Dallas Cowboys get Deuce Vaughn, son of team scout, in 6th round of NFL draft
Weekly Links 04.17–04.23
- Apple’s new savings account lets Card users grow their Daily Cash
- WB announces a Harry Potter Quidditch multiplayer game
- Google brings Matter support to its Nest Thermostat
- Panic says it’s sold more than 50,000 Playdate handhelds
- Prime Video adds new Dialogue Boost feature to make voices easier to hear
- Galaxy Quest, the best Star Trek movie, could be getting a TV series
- Apple’s HomePod and HomePod Mini can now listen for smoke alarms and send you an alert
- Netflix is shutting down its original DVD business after 25 years — I have fond memories of getting DVDs in the mail from Netflix.
- Netflix is out of the DVD business because streaming won – now, can Netflix still win?
- Netflix delays its password-sharing crackdown to sometime before July
- AI Drake just set an impossible legal trap for Google
- Sonic The Hedgehog can actually spin in Lego’s new sets
- Voicemod now available on Mac with real-time AI voice changing and soundboards
- Elon Musk threatens to sue Microsoft
- Elon Musk removes Twitter’s ‘government-funded media’ labels after outlets flee the platform
- Disaster alert accounts are preparing for a world after Twitter
- Pocket City 2 is a mobile SimCity but better
- Apple is reportedly developing its own journaling app for the iPhone
- The Fictional Brands Archive
- How the Legendary Chuck Jones Became a Great Artist
- Wes Anderson’s Staged Re-Creations of Out of Sight, Armageddon, and The Truman Show for the 1999 MTV Movie Awards
- The End of Computer Magazines in America
- AMD is quietly arming an entire new wave of Steam Deck competitors
Weekly Links 04.10–04.16
- Google cuts off third-party smart displays as Assistant support dwindles
- The end is nigh for gas-powered cars
- AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D: your next gaming CPU
- Substack launches its Twitter-like Notes just days after Twitter throttled Substack links
- Google TV’s live guide is getting crammed full of over 800 free channels
- Ikea expands services to include home interior design offerings
- The best mechanical gaming keyboards for 2023 — I just placed an order for a Keychron V1 (specifically to use for gaming), so I was happy to see it on this list.
- LinkedIn gets a free verified badge that lets you prove where you work
- NPR becomes first major news organization to leave Twitter
- PBS also stops tweeting after being hit with ‘government-funded media’ label
- Harry Potter is getting a 10-year-long TV series on Max
- Chipotle plans to ditch gas grills at 100 new locations
- Amazon offers free access to its AI coding assistant to undercut Microsoft
- The perfect Lego Nintendo Game Boy doesn’t exist…
- InsideSticker
- Sharks’ Karlsson first defenseman to hit 100 points since 1992
- Islanders claim final playoff spot; Penguins’ 16-year streak ends
- Thank you Penguins, for 16 years of playoff memories
- Where it went off the rails for Ron Hextall and the Penguins
- Penguins fire president of ops Brian Burke, GM Ron Hextall
- Where it went off the rails for Ron Hextall and the Penguins
- What’s next for Penguins after Ron Hextall, Brian Burke fired?
- Penguins offer land use to church in ‘restorative justice’ move
Weekly Links 04.03–04.09
- The Joy of Fortnite
- Microsoft Teams now has a green screen feature to make virtual backgrounds better
- Google Drive quietly introduced (then pulled) a file creation limit for all users
- Google Flights’ price guarantee could pay you back if your tickets get cheaper
- Harry Potter could be rebooted for the small screen
- Why do websites have so many pop-ups?
- Disney is in a land war with the state of Florida
- Song of the South’s racist legacy and Disney’s quiet reboot, explained
- How Tweetbot died (and lived again)
- Notion Quick Capture Hacks
- Why Lego Won
- Wikimapia — Putnam Hall — “Putnam Hall was the birthplace of the FatLan Lan Party.”
- Day One, Obsidian, and my months-long search for a private, personal place on the internet
- Announcing the GitHub Actions extension for VS Code
- Netlify Drop — Drag and drop websites.
- Journaling for Anxiety: How it Works and Why it Helps
- Microsoft Edge launches Workspaces test that lets you share browser tabs
- Counter-Strike 2 is getting Nvidia’s latency-reducing Reflex tech
- Microsoft’s rolling out Edge’s AI image generator to everyone
- 11 ways to power up your gaming on your PS5
- Twitter is now marking Substack links as unsafe
- The Best Clicky Switches For Your Keyboard
- The Best Mechanical Keyboard Switch for Typing!
- McDavid becomes 1st player in 27 years to surpass 150 points
- Penguins’ Sidney Crosby because 15th to 1,500 career points
- Meet the Oakland Guy Making Fun of Your Favorite California Punk Bands
Weekly Links 03.27–04.02
- iOS 16.4 is here, and it brings new emoji like a moose and goose to your iPhone
- Arc’s mobile browser is here — but it’s not trying to replace Safari and Chrome yet
- Apple Music Classical is now available from the App Store
- Amazon to flag ‘frequently returned’ products you maybe shouldn’t buy
- Hidden Systems is a book that could teach your kids how the internet works
- Finally, a Logitech name-brand headset for little school kids
- Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City
- Philips Hue’s Matter update has been delayed
- The Home Assistant SkyConnect is a combination Zigbee and Thread dongle for better smart home control
Weekly Links 03.20–03.26
- Fanatics replacing Adidas as the NHL’s official uniform partner
- Valve announces Counter-Strike 2, a free replacement for CS:GO
- The Internet Archive defends its digital library in court March 20th
- Microsoft’s Bing chatbot now lets you create images via OpenAI’s DALL-E
- Amazon is shutting down DPReview, the go-to camera reviews website
- You can now try Microsoft Loop, a Notion competitor with futuristic Office documents
- You might want to get your Mondo posters while you still can
- Roger Deakins Breaks Down His Most Iconic Films
- Amélie Was Actually a KGB Spy
- The Assassin’s Teapot
- The best video games of 2023 so far on Switch, PC, PS5, Xbox, and more