Hip-Hop at Fifty: An Elegy
A generation is still dying younger than it should—this time, of “natural causes.”
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Bluesky is my favorite Twitter clone yet
Right now, it’s really fun to hang out on Bluesky.
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The next Forza will help blind players race by listening to “beeps and boops”
Forza Motorsport gets some impressive accessibility features.
Early History of HTML - 1990 to 1992
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Should we trust Apple with mental health data?
What the default settings on the Apple Watch tell us about the move.
There’s no website like the Internet Movie Cars Database: interview with Antoine Potten
Interview with IMCDb.org’s longtime owner and operator to learn what makes this community-supported, car-focused database so unique in 2023
A Tweet Before Dying
The revolutionary internet is over, and we don’t have much to show for it. A new start is out there, somewhere.
How to ask for help on IRC - RJ's Notes
How to ask for help properly on IRC so that you get responses faster. Also relevant to forums and mailing lists
» Manifesto Early Retirement Extreme: — a combination of simple living, anticonsumerism, DIY ethics, self-reliance, resilience, and applied capitalism
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Hands on: Apple's savings account for Apple Card owners
After an announcement months ago, Apple Savings is available for Apple Card users to transfer Daily Cash rewards into a high-yield savings account. Here's how to get started.
How to Store Dotfiles - A Bare Git Repository | Atlassian Git Tutorial
It's time to find a better way to store your dotfiles. Learn why you should start using a bare Git repository instead.
Teen welcomes gamers to his second CoMo Retro Games Con
The CoMo Retro Game Con will take place Saturday, with hundreds revisiting their old Atari and Nintendo game days.
Markdown to Bike conversion - BrettTerpstra.com
I’m liking outlining in Jesse Grossjean’s latest app, Bike , for my outlining needs. It’s a simple outliner that can save the content of its outlines to Bike files, OPML documents, or plain text. And
Thousands fled to Mastodon after Musk bought Twitter. Are they still ‘tooting’?
The decentralized social network has seen user numbers drop in recent months, but tech-savvy users remain passionate
Schedule a text message on iPhone, iPad, and Mac
In this blog post I walk through how to get scheduled send for Messages.app, or "schedule a text message to send later on iPhone", with no third-party apps required!
Vivaldi 6.0: Organize tabs with the new Workspaces and personalize your browser with Custom Icons. | Vivaldi Browser
Work or play, separate tabs into different workspaces for more focus, and overhaul the browser’s look totally in Vivaldi’s new exciting update. Get it now on your desktop for a more personal and…
Weekly Musings 203
Welcome to this edition of Weekly Musings, where each Wednesday I share some thoughts about what's caught my interest in the last seven d...
Fantastical’s iOS 14 Widgets
Link to: https://www.macstories.net/reviews/fantastical-debuts-powerful-versatile-widgets-alongside-scribble-for-ipad/
The General Who Loved Blimps Too Much
He was the Air Force’s spy chief. Then he went straight to a firm selling spy gear. Now he’s in trouble.
#DEVDiscuss: Rethinking the Modern Web
Hey Devs, happy Friday 🦥💚 As always, it's been an eventful week in the tech industry. We've got a...
More about the App Store GPL Enforcement — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software
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The best mechanical keyboards for gaming
Smash the competition with these amazing boards.
Apollo: A Powerful, Modern Reddit Client for iOS
Reddit is one of those spaces on the Internet that I’ve historically stayed mostly away from. Due to my role at MacStories, however, and a thriving Apple subreddit, I’ve been there more in the past year than all prior years combined. During that time I’ve tried all the best iOS Reddit clients in an attempt
Bear 2 will have a new price only for new customers
Here’s a TL;DR of what’s changing when Bear 2 ships. But we definitely recommend you read the whole post:
Existing Bear Pro customers keep the current price as long as you stay subscribed ($1.49/month or $14.99/year USD). Yes, even if you subscribe between now and when Bear 2 ships
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The Privacy-Minded Social Network at the Center of the Classified-Document Leak
A young National Guardsman posted hundreds of secret government files to a private Discord group. Then they sat there for months unnoticed.
The Post-Platform Internet
We don't know where to go online now.
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Newton Protest in “Make Something Wonderful”
Thoughts on the mention of the Newton Protest in Steve Jobs’ “Make Something Wonderful.”
The transformation of the word geek
pIn Liar’s Poker, his 1989 seminal account of trading, Michael Lewis has a chapter called “From Geek to Man.” Here’s what he says about “geeks”: “A geek is a circus performer who bites the heads off live chickens and snakes. Or so says the red American Heritage Dictionary.” When Lewis arrived at Salomon Brothers in […]/p