Marry Me Chicken
This creamy chicken dish is amily-friendly, and always a crowd-pleaser! All you need to make this wonderful dish are just a few ingredients and half an hour from your time.
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Bard: Google’s Conversational AI Chat
“We’ve been working on an experimental conversational AI service, powered by LaMDA, that we’re calling Bard”
Back to the SSR
When servers were in Swiss basements, all they had to serve was static HTML. Maybe, if you were lucky, you got an image.
Picking a self-hosted Feed Reader
I used to use Google Reader back in the day then from Google Reader I moved to Feedly like a lot of other people did, but I decided a few months back to look into a self-hosted solution and Miniflux won out.
Anker Soundcore VR P10 Wireless Gaming Earbuds
I’m a fan of VR, especially the meta quest 2 and pro, so when I was sent a pair of these to test out, I jumped at it.
Microsoft shutting down AltSpaceVR on March 10th
AltspaceVR, a social VR platform founded in 2013 and acquired by Microsoft in 2017, has just announced that it will be closing permanently.
TikTok’s Secret ‘Heating’ Button Can Let Their Employees Make Anyone Go Viral
For years, TikTok has describedits powerful For You Page as a personalized feed ranked by an algorithm that predicts your interests based on your behavior in the app.
Twitterrific: End of an Era
Twitterrific has been discontinued.
AI art tools Stable Diffusion and Midjourney targeted with copyright lawsuit
A trio of artists have launched a lawsuit against Stability AI and Midjourney, creators of AI art generators Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, and artist portfolio platform DeviantArt, which recently created its own AI art generator, DreamUp.
Craig Hockenberry on “ The Shit Show” that is Twitter
What bothers me about Twitterrific’s final day is that it was not dignified. There was no advance notice for its creators, customers just got a weird error, and no one is explaining what’s going on. We had no chance to thank customers who have been with us for over a decade. Instead, it’s just another scene in their ongoing shit show.
Watch out for these Fake 16 Terabyte Portable SSD Drives on Amazon
If you see a 16 terabyte portable SSD on Amazon for $100 or less, don't buy it. Such a drive would cost thousands of dollars. These are nothing more than a scam, and don't work well at all. We bought one and got a glorified 64GB hard drive.
Twitter Intentionally Ends Third-Party App Developer Access to Its APIs
Late yesterday, The Information reported that it had seen internal Twitter Slack communications confirming that the company had intentionally cut off third-party Twitter app access to its APIs. The shut-down, which happened Thursday night US time, hasn’t affected all apps and services that use the API but instead appears targeted at the most popular third-party Twitter clients.
Google’s Stadia Controller is getting Bluetooth support
Google is launching its final Stadia game today and is promising to release a tool next week to enable Bluetooth connections on its Stadia Controller. The last Stadia game to launch on the service is Worm Game, a test game that was technically available on Stadia before Stadia launched publicly in November 2019. Developers at Google have decided to release the game just before the streaming service disappears next week.
Eddie Cue on Apple's year of original content
“2022 was a groundbreaking year for entertainment. At some point over the past year, you probably discovered a new app, a new song, a new TV show or movie, or game. An experience that made you laugh, taught you something new, or helped you see the world in a new way — and moved you to share it with others.”
Pommes Aligot (Cheesy Mashed Potatoes)
Pommes Aligot is a slightly different take on mashed potatoes, this thick, stretchy, unbelievably rich dish from Aubrac, a once-volcanic region in south-central France. If you've never seen aligot before, imagine the perfect fusion of mashed potatoes with fondue, and you'll have just the right idea
Apple Shuts Down Popular Weather App 'Dark Sky'
The calendar has turned to January 1 and Apple has shut down popular weather app Dark Sky. The popular weather app had already been removed from the App Store in September and it stopped functioning for existing users starting today.
Twitter’s landlord in San Francisco is suing the company for not paying rent.
The landlord, which owns the Hartford Building that houses Twitter’s headquarters, claims the company owes $136,250 in unpaid rent. It allegedly notified Twitter on December 16th that it would default on its lease if it doesn’t receive payment, but Twitter never complied.
Twitter “abruptly” bans all links to Instagram, Mastodon, and other competitors
The platform will still allow the paid promotion of these banned social platforms, however.
Twitter Shutting Down Revue
From January 18, 2023, it will no longer be possible to access your Revue account. On that date, Revue will shut down and all data will be deleted.
Jason Snell on Answering the burning questions about Apple’s reported App Store plans
What’s the world going to look like after this happens?
Garlic Butter Steak and Potatoes Skillet
If you like steak and potatoes then this dish is a must.
Microsoft sued by FTC over Activision Blizzard buyout
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is suing Microsoft over its planned $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, saying that the deal “would enable Microsoft to suppress competitors to its Xbox gaming consoles and its rapidly growing subscription content and cloud-gaming business.”
How Amazon Shopping Ads Are Disguised as Real Results
Amazon is the first app many of us think about to buy things online. But is it actually a good place to go shopping?
Elon Musk tries to blame ‘activists’ for his Twitter moderation council lie
Elon Musk is trying to explain why he let Donald Trump and others back onto Twitter, even after he promised that decision would be left up to a content moderation council made up of people with “widely diverse viewpoints.”
John Gruber: “Twitter Tumult”
If you had told me three weeks ago that Twitter, as a company, would today be embroiled in turmoil — perhaps outright existential crisis — over a company-wide email from Elon Musk centered around the phrase “extremely hardcore”
9 to 5 Mac: “How to take screenshots on your iPad using gestures with iPadOS 16”
What some people don’t know is that there are two other ways to take screenshots on the iPad without pressing any buttons.
Emergency SOS via satellite available today on the iPhone 14 lineup in the US and Canada
Every model in the iPhone 14 lineup — iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 14 Pro, and iPhone 14 Pro Max — can connect directly to a satellite through a combination of custom-designed components and deeply integrated software
Eli Lilly Stock Dipped after a Verified Twitter Imposter Claimed Insulin Would Now Be Free
Eli Lilly’s stock dipped Friday morning after someone paid $8 to verify a Twitter handle resembling that of the pharmaceutical giant and posted: “We are excited to announce insulin is free now.”
Air Fryer Ham And Cheese Biscuits
A simple 3 ingredient recipe that makes a nice appetizer.
Logitech G Cloud Gaming Handheld
The Logitech G Cloud Gaming Console is an Android-based handheld gaming console designed to stream games.
Twitter, cut in half
Eight days into Musk’s ownership of Twitter, many pundits have begun to predict that this is the beginning of the end.
Jony Ive on Life After Apple
“ One of the first employees hired by Ive was a full-time writer. (There are now more than 30 employees, many of whom worked with him at Apple.)”
The Steam Deck
Steam Deck is Valve's handheld gaming console is an interesting piece of hardware.
Remix Joining Shopify
Remix adoption is growing at an incredible rate, and we regularly have conversations with many smart, passionate folks in the industry who are creating amazing experiences with Remix. You’ll hear about them in the coming months. They love how Remix encourages progressive enhancement and leverages web standards to help them build fast, resilient websites.
Prioritise content over components
Visually, components are unique, flexible units to compose complete layouts. For content, they can trap reusable data into single-use decorations.
3 Ways Database as a Service Can Speed Applications
“Database as a Service (DBaaS) is often seen as a way to lift and shift the responsibility of on-premise databases, but it can also be a pathway to address frontend development challenges — such as web and application speed.”
Kent C. Dodds: The Web’s Next Transition
The web is made up of technologies that got their start over 25 years ago. HTTP, HTML, CSS, and JS were all first standardized in the mid-nineties.
Xbox Cloud Gaming is coming to the Meta Quest
Microsoft is bringing Xbox Cloud Gaming to Meta’s Quest VR platform. The two companies announced the partnership at Meta’s Connect event on Tuesday but didn’t announce a release date.
Meta Quest Pro
Meta Quest Pro is the first entry in our new high-end line of devices, and it’s packed with innovative features like high-res sensors for robust mixed reality experiences, crisp LCD displays for sharp visuals, a completely new and sleeker design, plus eye tracking and Natural Facial Expressions to help your avatar reflect you more naturally in VR.
This is Microsoft’s Xbox game streaming device
Microsoft’s head of Xbox, Phil Spencer, has just revealed the company’s dedicated Xbox game streaming device. Spencer published a photo of the device on Twitter, where you can see it sitting on top of his shelf in his Microsoft office space. It’s a small white box, that resembles the look of the Xbox Series S and will be dedicated to accessing Xbox games over the company’s Xbox Cloud Gaming service.