Big monitors, QD OLED TVs, and E Ink cars, oh my

The daily online puzzle demands nothing of us except a few minutes of delighted concentration

The word game has gone from dozens of players to hundreds of thousands in a few months. It was created by a software engineer in Brooklyn for his partner.

A pleasant little daily brainteaser, Wordle is a simple, shareable word-guessing game that is gaining popularity on Twitter

Despite considering myself a cryptographer, I have not found myself particularly drawn to “crypto.” I don’t think I’ve ever actually said the words “get off my lawn,” but I’m much more likely to click on Pepperidge Farm Remembers flavored memes about how “crypto” used to mean “cryptography” than ...

Podcast ads start to act more like the web

Trying to move podcasts to web-like “industry standard advertising” is worse than violating the spirit of *If it ain’t broke don’t fix it* — this is breaking something that definitely works for something we know doesn’t.

I had so much great feedback on my big announcement yesterday. I just wanted to thank everyone for the kind words. You all sent me many lovely emails, tweets, comments, and other feedback. I’m trying to reply to it all of it, but I’m still working my way through. There were a few things that came... Continue reading →

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It's now possible to retweet someone's post and add your own video reaction using the camera with the new feature on Twitter for iOS.

a comprehensive analysis of the year's new malware!

One year after January 6th, we look back at our reporting on the militia movement.

This is a tricky one. On the one hand, the NightWatch Apple Watch stand is ridiculous. It’s an $85 hunk of plastic. No hunk of clear plastic should cost $85. And yet… I bought one in Ju…

I'm generally a fan of the Memories feature of Apple Photos, especially the inclusion of the widget starting in iOS 14. However, there are drawbacks. The biggest of which is that Photos can surface painful past moments.1 An extreme example is the attack on the Capitol last year. Here's Jim Newell at Slate: What was...

"This is one of those things that really hurts you, both in terms of pride and professionalism."

If you own a Stream Deck and want a better way for adding your shortcuts to it, give Shortcuts by SENTINELITE a try. I’ve only been playing with the plugin for a short time, but this is hands down the best way I’ve found for adding push-button convenience to Shortcuts on the Mac. I covered

In late December, for a few years now, I have tweeted out a big list of albums I enjoyed. On Thursday, I posted my picks for 2021, some of which were likely not a surprise for anyone who follows me on Last.fm. This spring, I reactivated my account there and began scrobbling again after years […]

File synchronization can be fun and painless if you don’t have to deal with corporate bullshit.

Tweetbot is releasing today version 6.8 of its app. In this update, the Twitter client is receiving its first big update in 2022.

The new EV will hit the roads in the US in 2023.

What’s happening?

Fom QD-OLED TVs to EVs to a hair-coloring gadget.

Adam McKay’s latest surface-level political satire fails both as a metaphor for climate change and as art.

In a year of grief, “comfort care” takes on new meanings. We’re wearing our dispossession on our sleeves.

What comes next.

Anecdotal lifesaving, meet Apple’s heartstring plucking ads

Along with Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises.

A common complaint these days is that our work tools and practices bias much too heavily towards constant collaboration. We’re all drowning in Slack pings...