Tag: travel

• 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

Reddit

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