- 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
Tag: photography
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 01.23–01.29
- Twitter will stop forcing you onto its ‘For You’ timeline
- The third-party apps Twitter just killed made the site what it is today
- Drop Sense75 review: a $350 keyboard without $350 of quality
- Apple MacBook Pro 16 (2023) review: the core count grows
- Apple Mac Mini (2023) review: Mac Studio junior
- Sony’s DualSense Edge is a pro controller done (mostly) right
- Oscars 2023 nominations: everything, everywhere, all the noms
- Ivory 1.0 for iOS
- Dave Rupert — CSS Wishlist 2023
- LastPass owner GoTo shares more bad news about November’s security breach
- Windows 11’s File Explorer is getting a modern UI overhaul
- The Verge’s favorite desktop accessories
- The “Contagious Visual Blandness” of the Netflix Look
- The Minimalist Photography Awards for 2022
- Angry Miao’s quirky new keyboard saves space by using a touch panel for arrow keys
- 1982 TV News Report on Arcade Video Games
- Sunburn Photographic Printing
- This sick new desk from Steelcase costs almost $10,000 and might be worth it
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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