- Always Worth a Look: the AIGA’s Best Book Covers of the Year
- Striking Vintage Calculators
- Why Thread is Matter’s biggest problem right now
- Red Dead Redemption rerelease comes to Switch and PS4 August 17th
- Ikea actually got a decent grade for its sustainable shipping goals
- Zoom wants its remote work company to come back to the office
- Apple Music launches a Discovery Station to help you find new songs
- Sony is now streaming PS5 games at 4K over the internet in public beta
- The $219 WiiM Pro Plus brings your hi-fi setup into the streaming age
- The first PCIe Gen 5 drives are here and fast, but do you have a need for speed?
- Slack’s redesign: new DM and Activity sections and more features in the messaging app
- Threads is getting some useful new features
- You can now verify your Threads profile on Mastodon
- Disney is ‘actively exploring’ ways to crack down on password sharing
- Disney Plus and Hulu are about to get even more expensive
- Lego’s new $200 Concorde is a fantastic homage to the supersonic passenger jet
- Quake II is getting the remaster treatment
- Microsoft shuts down Cortana app on Windows 11
- Apple’s old iTunes Movie Trailers app is still here but not for long
- Is this the PS5 Slim?
Tag: design
Weekly Links 07.10–07.16
- Naz Hamid — Midlife Malaise Part II
- Design Notes on the Alphabet
- The Wellington Family
- The Ambient Sounds of Japan’s Jazz Kissas (Listening Cafes)
- Jon Hicks — A new logo for Thunderbird
- Jeremy Keith — Permission
- Chris Coyier — Sass Features in CSS
- Barbenheimer
- Why Do American Diners Look That Way?
- Instruction Manuals for 6000+ Lego Sets, Courtesy of the Internet Archive
- Instagram’s Threads surpasses 100 million users
- The Twitter bot tracking Elon Musk’s private jet resurfaces on Threads
- Something odd is happening when you try and search Twitter for Threads links
- Bear 2 for Mac and iOS is here, with tables, GIFs, and more
- Democrats call on DOJ to investigate tax sites for sharing financial information with Meta
- Disney Plus will start streaming Cinderella in 4K in August
- Apple’s iOS 17 is a lot of little updates that make a big impact
- This is a quietly big year for the Apple TV and tvOS
- The Mac sure is starting to look like the iPhone
- Here’s a reminder to make your Venmo transactions private, courtesy of Clarence Thomas
- Disney CEO Bob Iger will stay for at least two more years
- Telly starts shipping its free ad-supported 55-inch TVs
- Meet Microsoft Office’s new default font: Aptos
- UK investigation places Adobe’s $20 billion Figma deal in peril
- SAG-AFTRA goes on strike at midnight tonight
- Hollywood studios proposed AI contract that would give them likeness rights ‘for the rest of eternity’
- The unions of Hollywood are trying to save it from itself
- LG plans to expand ads and subscriptions across its TV and appliances
- Republicans defend Elon Musk in FTC’s Twitter probe
- Reddit removed your chat history from before 2023
- Those new M3-equipped iMacs may come in October
Weekly Links 07.03–07.09
- Spielberg, Scorsese, and Anderson have swooped in to save Turner Classic Movies
- Apple may be planning a new, more independent Mac display
- Jsaux’s ultimate RGB dock stretches to fit Steam Deck, ROG Ally, and more
- TweetDeck is falling apart after Twitter’s rate-limiting fiasco
- Tweets aren’t showing up in Google results as often because of changes at Twitter
- Street Photographer Captures Perfectly Timed Scenes
- Wes Anderson’s Imperfect Moments
- “I Created Clippy”
- The Winners of the 2023 Drone Photo Awards
- Patric Hornqvist retires after 15 years in the NHL
- Instagram’s Threads app is available now for iPhone and Android
- Instagram Threads: why Meta is competing with Twitter
- Instagram head: a Threads feed for just people you follow is ‘on the list’
- Threads profiles can’t be deleted without removing your entire Instagram account
- Twitter warns it could sue Meta over ‘copycat’ Threads app
- Reddit demands moderators remove NSFW labels, or else
- Go ahead, check a bag
- The case against self-closing tags in HTML
- Duck & Cover: Ukrainian Book Fair Poster
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 05.01–05.07
- 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 04.17–04.23
- 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 01.09–01.15
- Penguins make pit stop in Montreal on way home from road trip to show support for Kris Letang
- Simple Type Co. and Grandsans
- Pokémon Squishmallows to be released in February following Walmart confusion — My kids love Pokémon and Squishmallows, but I’m guessing there would be a fight over who gets the Pikachu one.
- Visiting Super Nintendo World felt like being inside a Mario game
- Disney’s Magical Companion debuts at CES with some help from Amazon
- MSI says Afterburner isn’t abandoned, despite its developer’s doubts
- England just made gigabit internet a legal requirement for new homes
- Adactio — Five websites
- Your desk is probably too tall for you — here’s how to fix it
- Marvel Snap PvP mode drops very soon
- 2023 Golden Globes: the complete list of winners
- Top 10 Title Sequences of 2022
- HTML with Superpowers: The Guidebook
- Some third-party Twitter apps appear to be broken
- The End May Be Nigh for Third-Party Twitter Clients
- State of the Twitterverse
Weekly Links 01.02–01.08
- Dave Rupert — Vibe Check №24
- Senators nod to fan Ryan Reynolds with Deadpool mask
- Microsites in Drupal
- Farewell to 3G
- Bring back personal blogging
- Winners of the 2022 BigPicture Natural World Photography Competition
- Hugh Jackman begs Oscar voters not to honor Ryan Reynolds before Deadpool 3
- FIFA 23 players find Ryan Reynolds Easter eggs in the commentary
- The biggest new movies coming out in 2023
- Polygon’s 50 most anticipated games of 2023
- NHL All-Star Game 2023: Rosters, schedule, how to watch
- NHL All-Star snubs and names to know for next year
- SwitchBot’s new hub will support Matter
- Nanoleaf’s new light switches will learn when you need them
- Nanoleaf’s new lighting kits sync up with the action on your TV
- Drop’s desktop computer speakers are tempting me to ditch the headset
- Looney Tunes and The Flintstones are the latest victims of the HBO Max purge
- More than 200 million Twitter users’ email addresses leaked by hackers
- The PS5 shortage is over, says PlayStation boss
- The Winners of the 2022 Close-Up Photographer of the Year Awards
- Lego’s The Great Wave Off Kanagawa
- How Spider-Verse Is Leading the Shift Away from “The Pixar Look”
- The Best Movie Posters of 2022
- You Suck at Cooking
- In Perfect Unison
Podcasts
- Syntax — 546: Code Styles × Readable Rules and Petty Preferences
- Syntax — 551: “Serverless” Databases
- Whiskey Web and Whatnot — Advent of Whiskey: Holiday Trivia, Food History, and YAML
- Whiskey Web and Whatnot — Advent of Whiskey: More Holiday Trivia and Tech Interviews
- Whiskey Web and Whatnot — Advent of Whiskey: Holiday Trivia Continued and Web Developer Tools
- Whiskey Web and Whatnot — Advent of Whiskey: Holiday Treats, Final Holiday Trivia, and Quantum Computing
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