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8 short rules for being a creator

Just 8 short and simple rules for being a creator.

Elon Musk and Twitter

Elon Musk, in a letter to Twitter chairman Bret Taylor and filed with the SEC expressed his interest in buying 100% of Twitter.

Marco Arment on redesigning Overcast

Overcast's latest update brings the largest redesign in its nearly-eight-year history, plus many of the most frequently requested features and lots of under-the-hood improvements.

Apple: "An update on AirTag and unwanted tracking"

Apple Newsroom's update on AirTags and malicious tracking: Every AirTag has a unique serial number, and paired AirTags are associated with an Apple ID.

Open source developer corrupts widely-used libraries, affecting tons of projects

A developer appears to have purposefully corrupted a pair of open-source libraries on GitHub and software registry npm: "faker.js" and "colors.js" that thousands of users depend on, rendering any project that contains these libraries useless.

Judge orders Apple to allow external payment options for App Store by December 9th, denying stay

Eight Things Apple Could Do to Prove It Actually Cares about App Store Users

When you spend money in Apple's App Store, the company generally takes a 30 percent cut, one that adds up to an estimated $19 billion per year.

Drew Devault: "In praise of PostgreSQL"

Drew Devault: After 25 years of persistence, and a better logo design, Postgres stands today as one of the most significant pillars of profound achievement in free software, alongside the likes of Linux and Firefox.

Fish and Brewis

Fish and Brewis is a favourite traditional dish from Newfoundland (my home province), it’s a dish that combines Fish, Potatoes, pork, Hardtack, onions, butter and salt.

Careful with WiFi names on your iPhone.

A few weeks ago, Schou and his not-for-profit group, Secret Club, which reverse-engineers software for research purposes, found that if an iPhone connected to a network with the SSiD name…

Setup an nginx proxy for docker-compose

Let's get started on a nice way to proxy docker containers with let's encrypt and nginx

Is Heroku Still Relevant?

Heroku has long been held up as the gold-standard platform as a service (PaaS) for software developers to easily deploy their code without having to worry about the underlying infrastructure, while others see it as akin to a magical fallen civilization with a limited future.

Switching from Google Analytics to Plausible.

I've been using Google Analytics for years but decided to try new tools. But I just wanted to move onto a new Analytics tool that was faster and more private. What I eventually ended up choosing was Plausible.  Plausible is a powerful yet simple analytics platform. The simplicity is what got me happy about it.

The Mess at Medium

Last week, a partnerships manager at Medium working with the White House found that there was a strange problem with the platform...

Clubhouse Is Recording Your Conversations. That's Not Even Its Worst Privacy Problem

Clubhouse was sort of perfectly made for the pandemic. People aren't going out, and they're desperately searching for social connections and entertainment.

Philly Cheese Steak Sandwiches

Philly Cheese Steak Sandwiches in your slow cooker are exactly what you want

Google killing Tilt Brush VR painting app but…

Tilt Brush, Google’s virtual reality painting application, has collaborated with amazing creators over the years, many of whom were part of our Artist in Residence Program.

Apple is astonishingly confident in its new M1 Mac processors

Apple’s big Mac event delivered three new computers — a new MacBook Air, a new entry-level 13-inch MacBook Pro, and a new Mac mini.

Why you can no longer install Fortnite on iOS

Fortnite disappeared from the App Store last month as part of developer Epic Games’ big legal and regulatory showdown with Apple, but the battle royale hit was not gone entirely — at least not for a little while.

Poor Man's Lobster

Poor man's lobster is an interesting dish, and a tasty one.