Tag: Duolingo

• Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Huge Mistake (kottke.org)
• Wes Anderson Is Museum Bound (kottke.org)
• Astronomy Photographer of the Year for 2024 (kottke.org)
• The Williamsburg Bridge Riders (kottke.org)
• Frozen food delivery service Schwan’s will shutter in November (kottke.org)
• “Presidential polls are no more reliable than they were a century ago” (kottke.org)
• Kodak and the Invention of Popular Photography (kottke.org)
• Why Old Sports Photos Often Have a Blue Haze (kottke.org)
• Danny Boyle’s ’28 Years Later’, a $75 Million Feature Film, Was Shot Using iPhone 15 Pro Max (Daring Fireball)
• Juli Clover Limited Her iPhone 15 Pro Max to the 80 Percent Charging Limit for an Entire Year (Daring Fireball)
• Hidden Pref to Restore Slow-Motion Dock Minimizing on MacOS (Daring Fireball)
• The Modern CLI Renaissance (Frontend Masters Boost)
• Oracle, it’s time to free JavaScript. (Frontend Masters Boost)
• Media Diet (Chris Coyier)
• The accessibility of emoji (Go Make Things)
• Coping with technology FOMO (Go Make Things)
• Hire HTML and CSS people (Robin Rendle)
• Faith Gong: Some Labor Day meditations (Addison Independent)
• I just crossed $1 million on GitHub Sponsors. 💰🎉 (Caleb Porzio)
• Definitions Lists in Markdown (Geoff Graham)
• Aggregating My Distributed Self (CSS-Tricks)
• Catching Up On The WordPress 🚫 WP Engine Sitch (CSS-Tricks)
• If WordPress is to survive, Matt Mullenweg must be removed (Josh Collinsworth)
• Alfred vs. Raycast: my constant debate (Josh Collinsworth)

News

• You can get an at-home flu ‘shot’ starting next year
• Google TV Streamer review: bigger, better, best
• Google TV gets a big upgrade
• X will let people you’ve blocked see your posts
• Logitech’s MX Creative Console is a Stream Deck for Photoshop and Premiere Pro
• Marvel’s new Thunderbolts trailer is armed to the teeth
• How gymnast Jordan Chiles’ medal hopes came down to four seconds
• The Verge’s favorite home office keepsakes
• Mozilla’s brand update gives its old T-Rex logo a fresh new look
• Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops
• Horizon Zero Dawn is getting a remaster for PlayStation 5 and PC
• Ghost of Yotei is the next entry in Sucker Punch’s Ghosts series — I’m very excited for this game, Ghost of Tsushima is one of my favorites!
• Sony’s pearlescent new PS5 colors will jazz up your gaming station
• Duolingo now offers a portable piano for its music course
• Raycast’s Mac launcher is coming soon to iOS and Windows
• I played the PS5 Pro, and it’s clearly better
• PlayStation 5 Pro hands-on: I want it, but I don’t need it
• Here’s how much Disney Plus will charge to share your password
• WP Engine is banned from WordPress.org — Lots of drama in the WordPress community this week.
• California’s new law forces digital stores to admit you’re just licensing content, not buying it
• LG smart TVs have started displaying ads when idle
• The Last of Us’ new season 2 trailer puts Joel and Ellie through the wringer
• John Wick: Ballerina passes the torch to a tiny dancer in first trailer
• Zillow will now show climate risks for property listings in the US
• The new EufyCam S3 Pro promises impressive night vision
• Steam will let you sue Valve now — “Disney recently attempted to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit after a woman died following an allergic reaction at one of its Walt Disney World resorts.“ Just about every article I’ve read that talks about the Disney thing seems to word it deceptively. A more accurate wording for the last part of that sentence would be “at a 3rd party restaurant located on the Walt Disney World resort property”.
• CNN will start locking some articles behind a paywall
• Nintendo’s shiny new museum needs more dirt
• The messy WordPress drama, explained
• Marvel and DC lose ‘Super Hero’ trademarks