- 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: music
Weekly Links 07.31–08.06
- Is This the First Rap Song? (1946)
- New Writing Shed Desire: A Detachable Studio on Rails
- Donald Trump Indicted for Conspiring to Defraud the United States
- Twitter is now listed as ‘X’ in the iOS App Store
- 8BitDo’s first mechanical keyboard is a love letter to the NES
- OnePlus’ Keyboard 81 Pro is a Keychron with a twist
- Keychron’s Lemokey L3 is a premium keyboard aimed squarely at gamers
- Nintendo’s next-gen console could come as soon as 2024
- Elon Musk says he’s going to talk to Tim Cook about adjusting the Apple tax
- Microsoft leaked its internal tool that enables secret Windows 11 features
- LG 27GR95QE-B review: ushering in a new age for gaming monitors
- Brave Search launches its own privacy-preserving image and video search
- IRS to offer paperless tax filing and returns in 2024
- Google can now alert you when your private contact info appears online
- Apple may be testing an M3 Mac Mini
- Kyle Dubas becomes Penguins GM, along with role as team president
- Erik Karlsson to Penguins in 3-team trade with Sharks, Canadiens
- Penguins hit a home run by picking up Erik Karlsson
- NHL trade grades: Penguins swing big with Karlsson deal
- Trade Grades: Input pouring in on Karlsson deal, but how do you rank it?
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 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 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 03.06–03.12
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is reportedly getting a major update soon
- Love Letters from Letterboxd
- Phony Stark Picks on the Wrong Guy, Attempting (and of Course Botching) an HR Exit Interview Live on Twitter
- Sony releases new PS5 update with Discord integration, 1440p improvements, and more
- How to use sleep tech to become an early bird
- Disney’s largely forgotten wartime shorts, ranked
- Vinyl overtakes CD sales for the first time since 1987
Weekly Links 02.20–02.26
- Introducing Day One on the Web
- The internet has broken gift giving
- Google Chrome’s latest version includes tools to address its memory hog problem
- The Supreme Court is deciding the future of the internet, and it acted like it
- The best PS5 SSDs
- The Most Iconic Song in Cartoon History
- 2023 Oscars Visual Effects Nominees Showcase
- You can now play the original Half-Life with beautiful beams of ray-traced light
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