Tag: California

• When to use map() vs. forEach() (Matt Smith)
• Fastest Rubik’s Cube Solve Ever (kottke.org)
• Colin Jost & Michael Che give each other jokes to tell on SNL’s Weekend Update (kottke.org)
• NYC Restaurant Interior or Black & White Drawing? (kottke.org)
• Biking Is Therapy (kottke.org)
• [This website] is a repurposed smartphone running on solar power (kottke.org)
• Bring That Beat Back (Naz Hamid)
• Opinionated vs. Flexible Software (Naz Hamid)
• Moving from Notion to Obsidian (Dave Rupert)
• Vibe Check №38 (Dave Rupert)
• Obsidian Miscellany (Tyler Sticka)
• Weeknote #1949 (Robb Knight)
• Weeknotes 25:20 (Jeff Bridgforth)
• Star Wars Outlaws is better than you think it is (Polygon)
• SVG to CSS Shape Converter (CSS-Tricks)
• How I Manage My Read Later List (Marcel Wichmann)
• Work styles and ADHD (Go Make Things)
• The magic developer wand (Go Make Things)
• The Last of Us writers break down the season 2 ending and 4 other big changes (Polygon)

News

• Sesame Street’s next season will stream on Netflix
• 23andMe and its user data will soon belong to a pharmaceutical giant
• GitHub’s new AI coding agent can fix bugs for you
• Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open-source
• Microsoft’s Edit on Windows is a new command-line text editor
• Trump signs the Take It Down Act into law
• Nearly half of streaming subscriptions are for plans with ads — I wonder how many of these ad-supported subscriptions are ones bundled with other services. For example, I get ad-supported Hulu included with my phone plan. I rarely watch anything on Hulu (because of the ads), and if it wasn’t free, then I wouldn’t bother with it at all.
• Elgato is letting you stick a Stream Deck on anything
• Fender’s free new recording app lets you simulate its iconic amps and pedals
• Google’s Gemini AI is coming to Chrome
• The FDA is making it more difficult for Americans to get vaccinated for covid
• Fortnite is finally back on US iPhones — “If you get the app from the App Store, it will be a small initial download, and after you actually open the app, it will download the rest of the game. For a colleague, that additional download was 12.95GB.” 😳
• Energy efficiency rollbacks could cost Americans $43 billion in higher utility bills
• OpenAI is buying Jony Ive’s AI hardware company
• PlayStation Stars burns out — PlayStation Stars was a frustrating rewards program (as are most rewards programs now). As a casual gamer, every time I would get close to having enough points for the one reward with any value (a $5 gift card), my points would expire. I often feel like it would be better for a company to have no reward program at all than to have one that is frustrating to use.
• Apple is making a five-part documentary on Martin Scorsese
• Netflix’s new OceanGate documentary makes things seem so much worse
• Verizon wants to wait longer before unlocking your phone
• Anthropic’s Claude 4 AI models are better at coding and reasoning
• Nvidia’s RTX 5060 review debacle should be a wake-up call for gamers and reviewers
• Mozilla is shutting down Pocket — I’ve used Pocket for years. Last year I shopped around for a new read it later app as I was somewhat unhappy with Pocket. I initially decided on Omnivore before deciding to go back to Pocket. I thought I dodged a bullet as Omnivore shut down a few months later, but it looks like my decision to stick with Pocket finally caught up with me.
• Senate Republicans vote to revoke California’s right to set its own tailpipe pollution rules
• Trump threatens Apple with a 25 percent iPhone tariff
• I bet you haven’t seen a first-person shooter quite like this
• Fujifilm’s half-frame camera ditches modern features for retro fun