- 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
Tag: Twitter
Weekly Links 07.03–07.09
- 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
Weekly Links 06.26–07.02
- 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
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 05.08–05.14
- Lego’s Tales of the Space Age set is now available for $49.99
- Discord’s username changes have gamers rising up concerns
- Gateway 14 review: it’s blue!
- Will Google announce a Nest Hub update at I/O?
- Peridot review: Niantic’s pet game is a next-gen Tamagotchi
- Matt Birchler’s Must-Have Productivity Apps
- ☠️ WordPress to Twitter
- Google drops waitlist for AI chatbot Bard and announces oodles of new features
- Google’s new Home app is now rolling out to everyone
- Disney will bring Hulu content into Disney Plus and raise its ad-free prices
- WiZ’s motion sensing smart lights can now monitor your home
- The Whimsical Fellowship, Wes Anderson’s Lord of the Rings
Weekly Links 05.01–05.07
- The Galactic Menagerie, Wes Anderson’s Star Wars
- The future of streaming is free ad-supported TV and movies
- These are the FAST services you need to know about
- The best part of FAST TV is the choice it takes away
- Forget ad-supported streaming — here come the ad-supported TVs
- The Verge’s favorite Stream Deck hacks
- How a cleaning app tricked me into taking care of myself
- Hollywood writers to strike over low wages caused by streaming boom
- Netflix Condemns WGA Strike For Putting Future Show Cancellations Behind Schedule
- The Kidnappers Foil, the Most Remade Movie in History
- You Can Register Domain Names in iOS’s iCloud Settings
- 9 wild Disney conspiracy theories that will never die
- Nanoleaf Essentials Matter smart lights review: A better bulb
- Using Arc Boosts to identify bots in Elk
- Microsoft is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge, and IT admins are angry
- AMD makes Ryzen 7840U official, claims it can beat Apple M2
- The new Pokémon Trading Card Game app is finally launching this June
- Google is replacing Chrome’s misleading lock icon
- Discord is making all users pick a new username
- A Collection of Sci-Fi Movie Logos
- The Browser Company Is Building a Swift Development Toolchain for Windows
- ‘Nice Twitter Handle You Have There. Would Be a Real Shame if Something Happened to It.’
- Microsoft Teams is getting animated backgrounds for your meetings
- The Google Home app is finally getting garage door controls
Weekly Links 04.17–04.23
- Apple’s new savings account lets Card users grow their Daily Cash
- WB announces a Harry Potter Quidditch multiplayer game
- Google brings Matter support to its Nest Thermostat
- Panic says it’s sold more than 50,000 Playdate handhelds
- Prime Video adds new Dialogue Boost feature to make voices easier to hear
- Galaxy Quest, the best Star Trek movie, could be getting a TV series
- Apple’s HomePod and HomePod Mini can now listen for smoke alarms and send you an alert
- Netflix is shutting down its original DVD business after 25 years — I have fond memories of getting DVDs in the mail from Netflix.
- Netflix is out of the DVD business because streaming won – now, can Netflix still win?
- Netflix delays its password-sharing crackdown to sometime before July
- AI Drake just set an impossible legal trap for Google
- Sonic The Hedgehog can actually spin in Lego’s new sets
- Voicemod now available on Mac with real-time AI voice changing and soundboards
- Elon Musk threatens to sue Microsoft
- Elon Musk removes Twitter’s ‘government-funded media’ labels after outlets flee the platform
- Disaster alert accounts are preparing for a world after Twitter
- Pocket City 2 is a mobile SimCity but better
- Apple is reportedly developing its own journaling app for the iPhone
- The Fictional Brands Archive
- How the Legendary Chuck Jones Became a Great Artist
- Wes Anderson’s Staged Re-Creations of Out of Sight, Armageddon, and The Truman Show for the 1999 MTV Movie Awards
- The End of Computer Magazines in America
- AMD is quietly arming an entire new wave of Steam Deck competitors
Weekly Links 04.10–04.16
- Google cuts off third-party smart displays as Assistant support dwindles
- The end is nigh for gas-powered cars
- AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D: your next gaming CPU
- Substack launches its Twitter-like Notes just days after Twitter throttled Substack links
- Google TV’s live guide is getting crammed full of over 800 free channels
- Ikea expands services to include home interior design offerings
- The best mechanical gaming keyboards for 2023 — I just placed an order for a Keychron V1 (specifically to use for gaming), so I was happy to see it on this list.
- LinkedIn gets a free verified badge that lets you prove where you work
- NPR becomes first major news organization to leave Twitter
- PBS also stops tweeting after being hit with ‘government-funded media’ label
- Harry Potter is getting a 10-year-long TV series on Max
- Chipotle plans to ditch gas grills at 100 new locations
- Amazon offers free access to its AI coding assistant to undercut Microsoft
- The perfect Lego Nintendo Game Boy doesn’t exist…
- InsideSticker
- Sharks’ Karlsson first defenseman to hit 100 points since 1992
- Islanders claim final playoff spot; Penguins’ 16-year streak ends
- Thank you Penguins, for 16 years of playoff memories
- Where it went off the rails for Ron Hextall and the Penguins
- Penguins fire president of ops Brian Burke, GM Ron Hextall
- Where it went off the rails for Ron Hextall and the Penguins
- What’s next for Penguins after Ron Hextall, Brian Burke fired?
- Penguins offer land use to church in ‘restorative justice’ move
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