- 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
Tag: hockey
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
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 02.06–02.12
- Jaromir Jagr scores record 1,099th goal at almost 51
- Google announces ChatGPT rival Bard, with wider availability in ‘coming weeks’
- Microsoft announces new Bing and Edge browser powered by upgraded ChatGPT AI
- Microsoft’s ChatGPT-powered Bing is open for everyone to try starting today
- Elon Musk says bots with ‘good content’ can use Twitter’s API for free
- Twitter can now default to the ‘Following’ timeline on iOS and Android
- AMC is about to make paying for theater seats more like booking an airline ticket
- Samsung’s SmartThings Station is a smart home hub worth plugging in
- OnePlus’ first mechanical keyboard looks like a rebadged Keychron
- Drop’s latest Lord of the Rings keyboard wants us to give Mordor a chance
- Shift Happens celebrates 150 years of typewriters, keyboards, and the people who use them
- Analogue opens up final preorders for its beautiful takes on the Sega Genesis and SNES
- “2001: A Space Odyssey” Directed by George Lucas
- HBO’s Gritty Prestige TV Adaptation of Mario Kart
- Lord of the Rings comes to Lego with this massively detailed Rivendell set
- LeBron James Breaks Kareem’s All-Time NBA Scoring Record
- Disney removes Simpsons episode in Hong Kong that references Chinese labor camps
- Disney’s laying off 7,000 as streaming boom comes to an end
- 1Password is trying for zero passwords
- Cloudflare wants to help you set up your own Mastodon server in ‘minutes’
- Windows 11 will soon control your RGB lighting for PC gaming accessories
- Opera’s building ChatGPT into its sidebar
- CatGPT
- Penguins’ Sidney Crosby picks up 1st game misconduct of career
Weekly Links 01.30–02.05
- How to use the Apple HomePod’s temperature and humidity sensors
- Meanwhile, Over in Androidtown
- Zeldman — Twitter Blue
- Free access to the Twitter API is ending:
- FTC fines GoodRx $1.5 million for sending consumer health data to Google and Facebook
- It sounds like Google’s getting ready to compete with ChatGPT
- Dave Rupert — SOLVED! The Case of the Bing Ban Theory
- A remastered version of Myst is coming to iOS
- Alex Ovechkin, son share ‘special’ All-Star moment with Sidney Crosby
Weekly Links 01.16–01.22
- AI-Generated Stills From a Movie That Doesn’t Exist: Alejandro Jodorowsky’s 1976 Version of ‘Tron’
- The Trio of Apps That Will Replace iTunes for Windows: Apple Music, Apple TV, and Apple Devices
- Chris Coyier — Farewell, An Event Apart
- Manhattan mourns loss of The Little Grill co-owner Kenrick Waite
- Dave Rupert — I’m Shadow Banned by DuckDuckGo (and Bing)
- Dave Rupert — Updates on my Bing ban
- Dave Rupert — My Bing Webmaster Guidelines Compliance Report
- Vegas goalie Lehner files for bankruptcy, cites $50M debt — “Lehner’s debts also included missed payments for a collection of rare snakes he purchased for $1.2 million”
- Drone Dives the Full Height of the Burj Khalifa
- Keychron cuts the cord on one of our favorite mechanical keyboards
- Apple announces a Mac Mini with the M2 and M2 Pro
- Apple announces MacBook Pros with M2 Pro and M2 Max chips
- Wyze’s two new security cameras can be paired together for live multiview streaming
- The Google Home app’s new TV remote adds volume and play controls
- Neck exercises (neck-xercises) for gamers
- An obsessive gamer’s guide to chronic pain peripherals
- Four Failures of Productivity (and how to solve them)
- How to Get Back 7 Hours per Week
- How to Build a Journaling Habit that Lasts
- Bringing GitHub Actions to GitHub Mobile
- Why Tipping Is Impossible to Get Rid of in America
- Firefox found a way to keep ad-blockers working with Manifest V3
- Logitech’s new $69.99 webcam is a stylish alternative to its aging C920s
- What’s on your desk, Tom Warren?
- Apple is turning on the HomePod Mini’s secret temperature and humidity sensor
- Here’s how the HomePod Mini’s new bundle of features work
- Amazon is closing its AmazonSmile charity platform
- Reed Hastings is stepping down as Netflix’s co-CEO
- Netflix’s paid password sharing to roll out ‘more broadly’ in the coming months
- Microsoft has copied the best Windows audio app
- Three attributes for better web forms
- Penguins’ P.O. Joseph, Sens’ Mathieu Joseph leave ice together
- Twitter says it’s intentionally blocking apps like Tweetbot
- Twitter officially bans third-party clients with new developer rules
- Twitterrific: End of an Era
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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Weeknotes 12.20–12.26
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