- Dave Rupert — Vibe Check №28
- Self Harmony
- Walt Disney’s Mid-Century Business Strategy Charts
- Very Minimalist Movie Posters
- Criterion’s Jackie Chan box set is the hottest Blu-ray buy of the fall
- Amazon Pharmacy simplifies insulin savings with automatic coupons
- It’s time to rethink our relationships with streaming services
- X seemed to throttle some competitors and news sites for more than a week
- TweetDeck is officially becoming a paid service
- Apple moved the end call button again in iOS 17
- Today I learned you can easily pause the Windows Task Manager to stop apps moving around
- NHL 24 trailer reveals gameplay overhaul, cover athlete, battle pass
- Special counsel obtained ‘some volume’ of DMs from Donald Trump’s Twitter account
- Netflix’s Scott Pilgrim anime brings the gang together in first trailer
- Threads gets retweets — sorry, reposts — in the reverse-chronological feed
- Elon Musk says (yet again) that X will stop letting you block users
- X breaks Twitter images and links posted prior to December 2014
Tag: movies
Weekly Links 07.24–07.30
- Wes Anderson Talks Up Some of His Favorite Movies in a Parisian Video Store
- Amazing Commercial Featuring the French National Football Team
- Cypress Hill’s Tiny Desk Concert
- Dave Rupert — Liquid Death
- Dave Rupert — My dad recliner
- Twitter is being rebranded as X
- RIP Twitter’s iconic bird logo
- Twitter removed half its HQ sign — then the police arrived
- Threads is rolling out its Following feed
- You can’t just leave Threads in the Following feed
- Greta Gerwig’s Barbie breaks records with $155 million US opening
- No, Ubisoft won’t delete your game-filled accounts, it claims
- Looking back at the original Google Chromecast, which just turned 10
- AMD ‘Zenbleed’ bug can be exploited to leak passwords from Ryzen CPUs
- The Arc browser is now available for all iOS and Mac users to download
- The Futurama crew touches down in Fortnite
- Oh my god, WD-40 is available in a Tide pen
- Verizon and AT&T are charging a new fee to customers on older plans
- The Verge staff chats about our favorite backpacks, slings, and bags
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 06.26–07.02
- Microsoft wants to move Windows fully to the cloud
- Nanoleaf’s latest smart lights are designed to amplify entertainment
- Apple says proposed UK law ‘poses a serious threat’ to end-to-end encryption
- How NASA Writes Space-Proof Code
- Microsoft wanted to acquire Square Enix as part of plan for mobile Game Pass
- Sony’s confidential PlayStation secrets just spilled because of a Sharpie
- Plex lays off more than 20 percent of its staff
- Microsoft CEO says he wants to end Xbox exclusives but blames Sony
- Reddit is telling protesting mods their communities ‘will not’ stay private
- How Reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history
- Reddit will remove mods of private communities unless they reopen
- 1Password now lets you manage family accounts in its apps
- YouTube tests disabling videos for people using ad blockers
- How Google Reader died — and why the web misses it more than ever
- Twitter has started blocking unregistered users from viewing tweets
- Elon Musk puts a reading paywall on Twitter
- Lego Stop-Motion Recreation of Iconic Scenes From The Shining
- The Radical Theology of Mr. Rogers
- How Wes Anderson Uses Miniatures to Create His Distinctive Worlds
- Behind the Scenes of Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City
- The Missing Bill Murray Scene From Asteroid City
Weekly Links 06.19–06.25
- The Next Phase of Eleventy: Return of the Side Project
- Visual Editing Comes To The Headless CMS
- Municipal broadband is breaking Big Telecom’s hold on the internet
- The FCC wants to regulate broadband data caps again
- Jeremy Keith — Button types
- Pollution from gas stoves can be worse than secondhand smoke
- Reddit removed moderators behind the latest protests before restoring a few of them
- What we’re learning from the Reddit blackout
- Reddit is about to get a little less accessible
- Reddit pressures mods to end the blackout as they find new ways to protest
- DPReview isn’t being shut down thanks to new ownership
- Super Mario RPG is getting a remake for Nintendo Switch
- Opera launches revamped browser equipped with an AI sidekick
- Adobe XD is on life support ahead of Figma acquisition
- Five AI tools creators should know
- The FTC’s case against Microsoft could turn into Xbox vs. PlayStation
- Sony’s PlayStation chief privately said Microsoft’s Activision deal wasn’t about Xbox exclusives
- Bethesda’s Indiana Jones game is exclusive to Xbox and PC
- Microsoft acquired Bethesda after hearing Starfield would be exclusive to PlayStation
- Across the Spider-Verse’s animators allegedly worked under unsustainable conditions
- Secret Invasion studio under fire for AI art says ‘no artists’ jobs’ were lost
- Chris Coyier — sizes=auto is a great idea
Weekly Links 06.12–06.18
- PHOTO TOUR: New Indiana Jones Den of Destiny Prop Gallery & Bar at Hollywood Studios
- Apple MacBook Air 15-inch review: Apple’s Big Air era
- Star Wars Outlaws gameplay looks like Grand Theft Auto: Tatooine
- Forgetting How to Be Yourself
- Vintage Analog Photo Booths
- Western Digital NAS drives flash three-year ‘warning’ in Synology DSM
- Microsoft has been temporarily restrained from buying Activision Blizzard, judge rules
- Google Home launches its new smart home automation script editor
- Before She Was Famous: Demo Tape of Madonna Performing With Her Post-Punk Band
- Dave Rupert — Vibe Check №27
- Plotter, Sunsama, and Notion: A Simple Hybrid Productivity System
- How We Created our Master Resource Database
- Jeff Abbott’s Must-Have Productivity Apps
- Mike Schmitz’s Must-Have Productivity Apps
- Jermey Keith — Add view transitions to your website
- Dave Rupert — A guy telling peanut butter jokes for 12 minutes
- Dave Rupert — Markdown images are an anti-pattern
- Dave Rupert — My double standards about JS framework compilers
- The Best Illusions of 2023 Contest
- Sony starts testing cloud streaming PS5 games
- Nvidia’s RTX 4060 will be available to order on June 29th
- Apollo Remastered
- It’s not just you: Steam suddenly looks nice
- The New Rubik’s Cube World Record Is Just 3.13 Seconds
- The Supreme Court Just Made This Gerrymandered Map Illegal
- Daring Fireball: Apple’s Game Porting Toolkit Is Already Showing Results
- Chris Coyier — margin-trim as a best practice?
- Chris Coyier — Google Passkeys
- Chris Coyier — New File Here
- Chris Coyier — Two Things That are Not Great About OKLCH
- The Verge’s favorite travel gear
- The 2023 Father’s Day Gift Guide
- Reducing Complexity in Front End Development
- Google Domains is shutting down, and its assets are going to Squarespace — I got burned again. You really can’t depend on Google to keep any of their services running.
- Apple Mac Studio (2023) review: the M2 Ultra rips
Smart home
The Verge published several smart home articles this week.
- What is a smart home, and do you need one?
- Apple Home, Google Home, or Amazon Alexa? How to pick the right smart home platform for you
- From brilliant to basic, here are our smart home setups
- Google Home: How to start a smart home
- Apple Home: How to start a smart home
- Home Assistant: How to start a smart home
- Smart home security: your questions answered
There was a lot of drama at Reddit this week.
- More than 6,000 subreddits have gone dark to protest Reddit’s API changes
- Reddit starts crashing as subreddit blackout keeps growing
- Reddit communities with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely
- Apollo’s developer on Reddit’s new API changes, and why users revolted
- Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts
- Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: Reddit ‘was never designed to support third-party apps’
- Reddit says it won’t force subreddits back open (but will it?)
- Reddit CEO Steve Huffman isn’t backing down: our full interview
- Here’s the note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if they don’t reopen
- Three of the biggest Reddit communities now only feature John Oliver posts
Weekly Links 06.05–06.11
- Why Does Jack Nicholson Repeatedly Break the Fourth Wall in The Shining?
- Major Reddit communities will go dark to protest threat to third-party apps
- Apollo for Reddit is shutting down
- Reddit’s users and moderators are revolting against its CEO
- 1Password users can now preview passwordless sign-on technology
- The 2023 Food Photographer of the Year Awards
- WordPress has a new AI tool that will write blog posts for you
- Jeremy Keith — Reaction
- Instagram’s upcoming Twitter competitor shown in leaked screenshots
- Marvel Snap adds a competitive ladder with new Conquest mode
- Star Wars: Outlaws is a new open-world Star Wars game from Ubisoft
Apple WWDC news
- Apple’s new 15-inch MacBook Air is the ‘world’s thinnest’
- Apple’s iOS 17 is official with better autocorrect and StandBy
- Apple’s new journaling app turns your iPhone into a digital diary
- Apple is changing the ‘Hey Siri’ trigger phrase to just ‘Siri’ in iOS 17
- Apple’s iPadOS 17 adds personalized lock screen and interactive widgets
- Apple announces macOS Sonoma with game mode and support for desktop widgets
- Apple announces widgets will return to watchOS 10 at WWDC
- FaceTime is coming to Apple TV with tvOS 17
- Standby is a new iOS 17 feature for your iPhone that could be great for Apple Home users
- Apple Vision Pro is Apple’s new $3,499 AR headset
- Apple upgrades WebKit, adds new features to Safari
- Apple announces visionOS, the operating system for its Vision Pro headset
- Apple News Plus is getting crossword puzzles with iOS 17
- For better or worse, Apple is avoiding the AI hype train
- With iOS 17, Apple lets you share AirTags with friends and family
- iPadOS 17 finally supports external USB webcams and cameras
- Apple’s new Proton-like tool can run Windows games on a Mac
- Apple’s Journal app needs to read the room
- Apple’s 15-inch MacBook Air is a perfect response to slowing Mac revenue
- Apple TVs with tvOS 17 will get native VPN support
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 05.08–05.14
- Lego’s Tales of the Space Age set is now available for $49.99
- Discord’s username changes have gamers rising up concerns
- Gateway 14 review: it’s blue!
- Will Google announce a Nest Hub update at I/O?
- Peridot review: Niantic’s pet game is a next-gen Tamagotchi
- Matt Birchler’s Must-Have Productivity Apps
- ☠️ WordPress to Twitter
- Google drops waitlist for AI chatbot Bard and announces oodles of new features
- Google’s new Home app is now rolling out to everyone
- Disney will bring Hulu content into Disney Plus and raise its ad-free prices
- WiZ’s motion sensing smart lights can now monitor your home
- The Whimsical Fellowship, Wes Anderson’s Lord of the Rings