- 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
Tag: security
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
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Continue reading Weekly Links 2021.06.05–2021.06.11An Event Apart: “The All-Powerful Front-End Developer”
Chris Coyier speaking at An Event Apart Seattle 2018 on April 3, 2018.
The internet is, without metaphor, just a bunch of servers tied together with wires. Without servers, we’d have no way to share our creations with the world. Yet in a bit of a paradox, servers are less essential to our work than they’ve ever been. We can now do things on the front end that used to require a back end. When we do need a back end, our front end skills can be put to work, giving us some surprisingly powerful new abilities. Join Chris on a whirlwind tour of the tools, tech, and code that puts more power than ever into our front-end hands.
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