Tag: Drop

• NHL Rank: Top-100 player predictions for the 2023-24 season — Malkin snubbed again.
• NHL Rank reaction: Biggest snubs, Bedard’s next spot, more
• Comedy and Tragedy (kottke.org)
• macOS Sonoma: 50 New Features and Changes Worth Checking Out (MacRumors)
• Enjoying creative work outside the Creative Cloud. (Airbag Industries)
• I’m done. (Airbag Industries)
• The 50 Greatest Music Videos of All Time, Ranked (kottke.org)
• The New York Skyscraper That Almost Fell Over (kottke.org)
• Arc Usage Update (Chris Coyier)
• Weeknotes 23:33 (Jeff Bridgforth)
• Weeknotes 23:34 (Jeff Bridgforth)
• How Far Does $1 From 1999 Go Today? (PerThirtySix, via kottke.org)
• How Large Before It Goes In? (kottke.org)
• FitVids has a web component now (Dave Rupert)
• Style Scoped (Chris Coyier)
• Build on 1Password for Visual Studio Code at Hacktoberfest! (1Password)
• Great story about going to see Galaxy Quest in an empty theater near the end of its run (kottke.org)
• While Ikea was refurbishing a building for a new store in London, they covered it with scaffolding that looks like a giant, blue Ikea bag (kottke.org)
• event.target.closest (Jeremy Keith)
• Styling External Links with Attribute Selectors (CSS { In Real Life })
• Crawlers (Jeremy Keith)
• Jason Snell Reviews the iPhones 15 Pro (Daring Fireball)
• Burger King Botched the Curling on an Apostrophe in a TV Commercial and I Am Very Much Here to Shit on Them for Doing So (Daring Fireball)
• Martin Scorsese Breaks Down His Most Iconic Films (kottke.org)

News

• Best Buy is axing physical DVD and Blu-ray business in this depressing digital world
• Comcast will begin multi-gig symmetrical internet roll out on non-fiber cable — I’ve been wondering lately how the cable internet companies are going to compete with fiber that is cheaper with much faster upload speeds than cable.
• Apple’s new video reactions are making therapy incredibly awkward
• X accused of illegally firing employee who criticized Elon’s return-to-work plan
• AMD’s Anti-Lag feature is getting gamers banned from Counter-Strike 2
• Apple’s cheaper Vision Pro follow-up still won’t be cheap
• Minecraft has sold over 300 million copies
• Spider-Man 2 review: twice the spider-men, twice the emo fun
• NHL 24’s new controls are a flashy mess
• Disney brought Robin Williams’ Genie back for a new short, without AI
• Stack Overflow lays off over 100 people as the AI coding boom continues
• LinkedIn lays off hundreds of employees for the second time this year
• About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off
• Analogue is making a 4K Nintendo 64
• Biden campaign joins Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform
• Intel Core i9-14900K review: a refresh in name and nature
• Drop’s latest keyboard is equipped with a hot-swappable top case
• Ecobee launches a smart video doorbell and new features for its thermostats
• Ecobee Smart Doorbell Camera review: bigger view, fewer notifications
• Elgato’s new $279.99 Prompter is an all-in-one teleprompter and extra monitor
• Apple announces entry-level Apple Pencil with USB-C charging
• PS5 cloud streaming details: launch dates and bandwidth requirements
• X to start charging new users $1 per year in two countries
• Get ready to see a lot more product ads in YouTube videos
• 13 states will join the IRS direct income tax filing pilot in 2024
• PSA: it’s time to update WinRAR due to a big security vulnerability
• Marc-Andre Fleury leads Minnesota Wild past Montreal Canadiens
• Here comes another Netflix price hike
• Microsoft tests support for hearing aids in Windows 11
• Nomad’s Hydro Flask Tracker lets you put an Apple AirTag on your water bottle
• Google Meet adds skin-smoothing beauty effects for video calls
• Discord is going to give out warnings instead of permanent bans
• Cities: Skylines 2 is bigger and better in the best ways
• OpenAI is expanding availability of DALL-E 3 inside ChatGPT
• The Problem With Jon Stewart ending over AI and China coverage
• Slack is retiring its status account on X
• Blue checks on X are ‘superspreaders’ of Israel-Hamas war misinformation
• Elon Musk rants about work from home folks again on Tesla earnings call — “Musk called remote work ‘morally wrong’ and argued it’s unfair to those who can’t have the option, like food delivery workers”. I think it’s morally wrong for Musk to be a billionaire because it’s unfair for me to not have the option to be a billionaire.
• Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses: a turning point
• Brave downloads a VPN service whether you want it or not
• Meta will now let you stop Instagram from tracking you across the web