- Why Star Wars Was Dubbed Into the Navajo Language (kottke.org)
- “I built a trading bot that buys stocks that are being bought by politicians. It is up 20% since it launched in May 2022.” (via kottke.org)
- Do You Say “Tennis Shoes”, “Gym Shoes”, or “Sneakers”? (kottke.org)
- Trump Wants Us to Know He Will Stop at Nothing in 2025 (via kottke.org)
- More Americans Say They’re in a Brain Fog. Long Covid Is a Factor. (via kottke.org)
- Winners of the 2023 Natural Landscape Photography Awards (kottke.org)
- Stop Using AI-Generated Images (CSS { In Real Life })
- Better Vue Application State Management with Vuex Modules (CSS { In Real Life })
- Using Flow Diagrams to Manage State in Complex Applications (CSS { In Real Life })
- Projects: Finally a home for my projects, side projects, and weird ideas (Dave Rupert)
- Weeknotes 23:38 (Jeff Bridgforth)
- Always Be Learning (LukeW)
- Until the Right Design Emerges… (LukeW)
- Happy Anniversary, xScope! (The Breakroom)
News
- The Screen Actors Guild’s strike-ending deal has entered its final step
- Meta Threads users can now stop their posts from showing on Instagram
- Threads finally lets you delete your account separately from Instagram
- Threads DMs may be coming, and they may be powered by Instagram
- Meta’s Threads tests hashtags and trending topics, sort of
- Nothing is bringing iMessage to its Android phone
- Anti-hate group claims X allows users ‘free reign’ to post hate speech
- Introducing Twenty Twenty-Four — The new WordPress theme for 2024
- Man arrested on suspicion of manslaughter in Adam Johnson’s death
- Gaming companies like Asus and Razer are finally making good keyboards
- Microsoft investigating Windows activation issues after closing a key loophole
- The incredible shrinking heat pump
- Microsoft rebrands Bing Chat to Copilot, to better compete with ChatGPT
- Microsoft Teams’ latest AI trick cleans and decorates your messy webcam background
- Verizon now offers an individual unlimited cloud storage option
- Windows is now an app for iPhones, iPads, Macs, and PCs
- Apple says iPhones will support RCS in 2024 — See also Daring Fireball
- The best note-taking apps for collecting your thoughts and data
- IBM pulls X ads as Elon Musk endorses white pride
- Apple pulls its ads from X after Musk’s antisemitic posts
- Most of ESPN’s accounts went dark after Disney dropped advertising on X
- Twitter’s decentralized offshoot Bluesky now has 2 million users
- Google Chrome changes that could limit ad blockers are coming next year
- Tumblr is betting big on going small
- Lofree Flow review: converting to the low-profile lifestyle
- The best noir movies to watch this Noirvember
- Microsoft makes custom Bluey Xbox for launch of Bluey: The Video Game
- Half-Life gets a big update for its 25th anniversary
- Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI
- Sony announces The Last of Us Part II remaster for PS5