- 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
Tag: LEGO
Weekly Links 04.10–04.16
- 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
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 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 01.02–01.08
- 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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