Tag: The Lord of the Rings

• Wes Anderson’s Montblanc Commercial (kottke.org)
• The Gentle Librarian (kottke.org) — A device like the BOOX Palma has been feeling super compelling to me lately, but I’m not sure I would choose one over an iPad unless the price was a bit lower.
• Vibe Check №32 (Dave Rupert)
• A weighted vest (Dave Rupert)
• Klack — Satisfying sound with every keystroke — An app that produces mechanical keyboard sounds for your Mac 😆
• Weeknotes 25.04.24 (Hicks.design)
• On having no visual memory (Rachel Andrew)
• When your work disappears (Lynn Fisher) — Lynn is taking over oss.love from Netlify.
• Weeknotes 24:17 (Jeff Bridgforth)
• Europe Trip 2024 (Jeff Bridgforth)
• Upcoming custom element support in React (Piccalilli)
• Full text RSS is back (Piccalilli)
• Detect JavaScript Support in CSS (Ryan Mulligan)
• The full trailer for my Netflix series just dropped! (The Oatmeal)

News

• OpenAI and Stack Overflow partner to bring more technical knowledge into ChatGPT
• Stack Overflow is feeding programmers’ answers to AI, whether they like it or not
• Logitech’s Mouse Software Now Includes ChatGPT Support, Adds Janky ‘ai_overlay_tmp’ Directory to Users’ Home Folders — Also on Daring Fireball — Can we please stop adding AI to everything? Many people have suggested SteerMouse as an alternative to the Logitech software.
• Meta Threatens to Pull WhatsApp From India Over Encryption Battle
• Switch 2 will be revealed before April 2025, promises Nintendo
• ESPN is coming to the Disney Plus app
• Komoot is helping me get back on my bike after a long hiatus
• Apple adds a 13-inch iPad Air to the mix
• Apple announces new iPad Pros with OLED displays and thinnest design ever
• Apple announces its M4 chip
• The Magic Keyboard for iPad gets a bigger trackpad
• Apple quietly kills the old-school iPad and its headphone jack
• The iPad Air is now heavier than the iPad Pro
• TikTok sues the US government over ban — Predictable. Also on Daring Fireball.
• Amazon Prime Video ads are about to get more intrusive
• People sure are pressed about Apple’s crushing iPad commercial — Also on Daring Fireball.
• Walmart shopper data will soon feed targeted ads on Disney Plus and Hulu
• A Disney, Hulu, and Max streaming bundle is on the way
• Warner Bros. Discovery’s first new Lord of the Rings movie is due out in 2026
• Verizon and T-Mobile are trying to gobble up US Cellular
• EA is prototyping in-game ads even as we speak
• Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs
• Bungie’s classic sci-fi shooter Marathon is now free on Steam
• Amazon’s Matter Casting is shaping up so nicely, I want to use it everywhere
• Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile’s ‘unlimited’ plans just got a $10M slap on the wrist
• The DJI Pocket 3 is almost everything I wanted my iPhone camera to be
• The Gamma app brings PS1 emulation to the iPhone