306: Seemed Like A Good Idea at the Time - This American Life (podcast)
00:59:11 - A girl signs up for a class. A couple hires an accountant. A group of co-workers decides to pool their money and buy a couple of lottery tickets. In…
The buzziest indie album of the moment is a folder of files you can only get from a janky Geocities website. Drake is dropping new music on something called Krakenfiles.com. Chris Black wonders if the post-streaming era will look like Web 1.0.
It’s been almost 15 years since the last deadly plane crash on a U.S. airline. But near misses in U.S. aviation have grown 25% in the last decade. What's behind the rise in close calls?
Soulver 3 for iOS: Acqualia Software’s Unique Approach to Calculations Lands on the iPhone
Five years ago, Soulver 3, the sheet-based app that serves as a notepad for calculations, launched on the Mac with a long list of new features. In the years since, Acqualia Software launched an iPadOS version of the app and, today, an iOS version. As I said in my review of the Mac app: The
Emulators Will Change the App Store Forever - Wavelengths
[You should check out Pokémon Unbound if you haven’t.]
Every few years I switch to Android. I always tell myself the reason is that I just want a change, that...
The Ford Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund will be funding Erin Kissane and Darius Kazemi to study how prepared the Fediverse is to face the intrinsic and extrinsic risks that come with network growth.
WordPress.com Owner Buys Beeper, App That Enabled iMessage on Android
Automattic Inc., the internet company behind popular online blogging service WordPress.com, acquired the messaging app at the heart of a recent dispute with Apple Inc.
5 ways I’d like iOS 18 to improve the iPhone home screen
No intro, let’s just get into it!
More icons
It’s not the most important thing in the world, but I’d love to see iOS 18 bring with it the ability to create a tighter grid of icons on my iPhone’s home screen. Currently every iPhone from
This morning I had to renew my driver's license at the California Department of Motor Vehicles, a problematic task because I haven't legally changed my name or gender yet. This is not because I haven't wanted to change those for months, but I'm going through a divorce. And my lawyer told me to wait while [...]
I knew about Mastodon in a vague way a year ago. But it wasn't until Space Karen laid off half the staff at Twitter on November 3, 2022---when we all realized that the blue bird was indeed circling the drain---that I got serious about riding the pachyderm. I created my first account on the Fediverse [...]