- 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
2022 Year in Review Links
I never did get around to writing a “Year in Review” post, but I collected these links to other yearly reviews that I had planned to include in mine.
Continue reading 2022 Year in Review LinksWeekly 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
Weekly Links 03.13–03.19
- Oscars 2023 winners: Everything Everywhere All at Once did the thing many times over
- SodaStream is a bad deal, and modding your own is better
- The shift to EVs is slowly killing off AM radio — and that’s bad for emergency broadcasts
- Samsung caught faking zoom photos of the Moon
- Keychron Q1 Pro review: they actually pulled it off
- Microsoft Edge now has a Bing AI chatbot sidebar
- Carrot Weather update introduces snarky chatbot based on ChatGPT
- LinkedIn is adding AI tools for generating profile and job descriptions
- Belkin’s smart home brand Wemo is backing away from Matter
Weekly Links 03.06–03.12
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is reportedly getting a major update soon
- Love Letters from Letterboxd
- Phony Stark Picks on the Wrong Guy, Attempting (and of Course Botching) an HR Exit Interview Live on Twitter
- Sony releases new PS5 update with Discord integration, 1440p improvements, and more
- How to use sleep tech to become an early bird
- Disney’s largely forgotten wartime shorts, ranked
- Vinyl overtakes CD sales for the first time since 1987
Weekly Links 02.27–03.05
- Setting Up a New(ish) MacBook
- Warren Beatty and Warren Beatty as Dick Tracy Debate Warren’s Beatty’s ‘Dick Tracy’
- WSJ: ‘A Lab Leak in China Most Likely Origin of Covid Pandemic, Energy Department Says’
- The Last 55 Years of Best Cinematography Oscar Winners
- American Cars Are Getting Too Big For Parking Spaces
- New Ukrainian Postage Stamp Features Banksy Art and Says “FCK PTN”
- The best discard decks in Marvel Snap and how to play them
- Microsoft brings its new AI-powered Bing to the Windows 11 taskbar
- Microsoft’s Phone Link app now lets you use iMessage from your PC
- LastPass reveals attackers stole password vault data by hacking an employee’s home computer
- Google’s Chrome browser now squeezes more battery life out of MacBooks
- Dave Rupert — GameDev Journal №1: Otis’s Zelda-like
- A Native “Visually Hidden” in CSS? Yes Please!
- Tweetbot and Twitterrific Face the Cliff
- A Movie Trailer Editor Deconstructs Iconic Trailers
- Disney’s Haunted Mansion remake lives up to its name in new teaser trailer
- A GOP plan to ban TikTok nationwide advances out of committee
- Movies Anywhere is ending its movie sharing and Watch Together features