May 20, 2019
Reading List
Don’t expect your car’s safety technology to save you - The Verge
What if ADAS is just for convenience?
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Career Advice No One Gave Me: Give a Lot of Notice When You Quit
What Modern Humans Can Learn From Ancient Software | WIRED
Retrocomputing is about more than nostalgic nerdery. It’s also a way to keep your tech in perspective.
Micro.blog
On Re-reading A Book — Dino’s Journal 📖
A heavy influence on why I write down so many notes, and with so much detail in them, is this idea that if you have to re-read a source t...
UIKeyCommand — Part 3: macOS Catalyst Menu Items
Color-code emails in Mail on Mac - Apple Support
In Mail on your Mac, manually or automatically change the colour of certain emails so they’re easier to spot.
My job is to remember | The Outline
How will the stories we tell ourselves about who we are change when there’s a lifetime of photographic evidence?
The Decentralized Internet Is Here, With Some Glitches | WIRED
Privacy advocates and venture capitalists want to circumvent the tech giants with apps using encrypted data stored on networks of computers.
Donald Trump Built a National Debt So Big (Even Before the Pandemic) That It’ll Weigh Down the Economy for Years — ProPublica
The “King of Debt” promised to reduce the national debt — then his tax cuts made it surge. Add in the pandemic, and he oversaw the third-biggest deficit increase of any president.
The 18 greatest Apple stores of all time | iMore
Brick-and-mortar.
Twitter will let media publishers charge per article starting in May - The Verge
Elon Musk calls it a ‘win-win for both media orgs and the public.’ We’ll see.
Game Bytes · April 2023 | The GitHub Blog
Game Bytes is our monthly series taking a peek at the world of gamedev on GitHub—featuring game engine updates, game jam details, open source games, mods, maps, and more. Game on!
Celebrating The First Year of the Mobile Phone Museum | Mobile Phone Museum
Looking ahead to 2023, in addition to continuing to develop the educational arm of the charity, we aim to grow the collection further with a goal of rea...
Why is ‘Juice Jacking’ Suddenly Back in the News? – Krebs on Security
KrebsOnSecurity received a nice bump in traffic this week thanks to tweets from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) about "juice jacking," a term first coined here in 2011 to describe a potential threat…
Hiding Files on MacOS | ☯︎ Li
Hiding files on a Mac can be a simple and effective way to safeguard your information, and here are the step-by-step instructions to achieve that. The fas...
Software recommendations | ☯︎ Li
I was recently asked about some software recommendations for a newly setup system to maintain the optimal state of the machine throughout its lifetime and po...
Uses | ☯︎ Li
This page contains the list of technologies I use, both hardware & software. I have a single machine, Macbook Air M1, 2020 with specs as follows: ...
Cheap DNA Testing Is Giving Some Insurers Even More Ways To Deny Coverage [UPDATED] | Techdirt
[Update: after this post was published, Eric Heath of AncestryDNA emailed us with concerns about the post’s content, considering the recent update to the site’s terms of service. As Hea…
Sequel 2.0: An iPhone and iPad Media Tracker That Strikes an Elegant Balance Between Form and Function - MacStories
Too often, media tracking apps feel like work. There’s too much effort involved in adding and browsing items, which makes them feel more like task managers than an inviting place that helps you decide how you want to spend your precious free time. Apps in this category seem to take one of a couple of
Stink Studios’ rebrand pays homage to pre-emoji Webdings typefaces
Teaming up with Erkin Karamemet of Dinamo, the studio recalls the bare-bones aesthetics of the early internet for its new identity.
The 15 Best LGBTQ+ Movies to Stream on Prime Video | Them
From boarding school dramas to bisexual disaster comedies, the gang’s all here.
Mastering Mona
I won’t spend more than $250 on a new smartphone - The Verge
Hear me out.
Star YouTuber iJustine Opens Up About Thrombosis, Assistive Technology, Disability, And Advocating For Your Health
Ezarik, best known on the internet as iJustine, is a megastar tech YouTuber with over 7 million subscribers. (She also has another 1.8 and 1.6 million more on Twitter and Instagram, respectively.) A year ago, she made waves by sharing her experience battling thoracic outlet syndrome.
Evolving Usernames on Discord
Discord usernames are changing to remove four-digit discriminators. Display Names are being added so how you appear to other users stays the same. Read on for more info.
Apple brings Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro to iPad - Apple
Apps introduce powerful features designed for iPad to deliver the ultimate mobile studio for video and music creators.
Create an iOS Scriptable widget to show backyard bird visitors
How to create an iOS Scriptable widget that displays the bird visitors in your backyard.