Posts Tagged in "Links"
Links is a place where I bookmark, sometimes summarize or have an opinion and share what others have posted.
There is no bar
There is no bar for the quality of a blog post. Allow me to be an example....
50 years of Atari
Commemorating the 50th anniversary of Atari, Benj Edwards interviewed founder Nolan Bushnell for How-To Geek...
Apple retail workers vote to unionize a store in Maryland
Workers at Appleâs Towson Town Center store in Maryland have voted to unionize, with 65 yeses and 33 nos. Around 110 employees were eligible to vote in the election....
Ryan Broderick on VR âReal Estateâ
There are plenty of ways to make money in the metaverse â custom avatars, cool maps, unique digital experiences, ad-supported livestreamed playthrough videos â but the folks trying to convince you to buy a digital mansion or a virtual yacht arenât going to be part of that new economy. ...
Lee Rob and The Story of Heroku
âHeroku made it easy for any developer to build and run applications in the cloud without managing their own infrastructure. Now 15 years later, it continues to inspire the next generation of developers. Why did Heroku become so popular? What can we learn from their incredible developer experience? How is Heroku shaping the next generation of serverless?â...
8 short rules for being a creator
Just 8 short and simple rules for being a creator....
Marco Arment on redesigning Overcast
Overcastâs 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: âAn update on AirTag and unwanted trackingâ
Apple Newsroomâs update on AirTags and malicious tracking: Every AirTag has a unique serial number, and paired AirTags are associated with an Apple ID....
Judge orders Apple to allow external payment options for App Store by December 9th, denying stay
Epic v. Apple judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers says Apple must comply with an order to let developers add links and buttons to external payment options, denying the companyâs motion for a stay....
Eight Things Apple Could Do to Prove It Actually Cares about App Store Users
When you spend money in Appleâs App Store, the company generally takes a 30 percent cut â one that adds up to an estimated $19 billion per year. ...
Facebook shouldnât be allowed to buy Giphy, says UK regulator
15 months ago, Facebook said it was buying the popular GIF search engine Giphy for about $400 million. Now the acquisition may be a bust, thanks to an antitrust probe by the UKâs Competition and Markets Authority. ...
Drew Devault: âIn praise of PostgreSQLâ
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. ...
Basecampâs crazy weekâŠ
First, Casey Newton broke the news on some controversy from Basecamp that happened due to a list: The controversy that embroiled enterprise software maker Basecamp this week began more than a decade ago, with a simple list of customers. ...
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....
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. Thatâs Not Even Its Worst Privacy Problem
Clubhouse was sort of perfectly made for the pandemic. People arenât going out, and theyâre desperately searching for social connections and entertainment. ...
Jeff Bezos Walks Through a One-Way Door, Opening a New Age for Amazon
Bloomberg: The walls of his highly compartmentalized empire have been crumbling for some time. Itâs becoming increasingly difficult to be Jeff Bezos (at least by Bezosâs standards). ...
Google killing Tilt Brush VR painting app butâŠ
Tilt Brush, Googleâs 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
Appleâs big Mac event delivered three new computers â 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 Gamesâ big legal and regulatory showdown with Apple, but the battle royale hit was not gone entirely â at least not for a little while. ...
Nintendo Switch overtakes SNES with more than 52 million sold
Nintendo had its strongest Switch quarter ever this holiday season, moving 10.81 million units to reach a total of 52.48 million sold as of the end of 2019....
The âTragicâ iPad
âSteve Jobs stepped onstage 10 years ago today to introduce the world to the iPad. It was, by his own admission, a third category of device that sits somewhere between a smartphone and a laptop. Jobs unveiled the iPad just days after the annual Consumer Electronics Show endedâŠâ...
Googleâs End of an Era
âLarry Page and Sergey Brin are stepping down from running Alphabet, leaving the company to Sundar Pichai. This likely signals the end of an era, when Google tried to solve a vast array of human problems under Alphabetâs broad umbrellaâbut pretty much failed to turn any of them into a profitable business.â...
John Gruber: 16-inch MacBook Pro First Impressions
Apple today is releasing its much-rumored new 16-inch MacBook Pro. It is full of good news....
How the heart became the centre of the Apple Watch
Earlier this year, Appleâs CEO Tim Cook commented on the importance of health to the company. In a statement that has been widely quoted, he said, âI believe, if you zoom out into the future, and you look back, and you ask the question, âWhat was Appleâs greatest contribution to mankind?â...
iPad Pro USB-C Hubs: The Best, Worst, and Weirdest Options
Chris Welch, writing for The Verge: The iPad Proâs single USB Type-C port is one of my main frustrations about an otherwise truly stellar piece of technology....
Panicâs Playdate
From the Playdate website: Hello. We made a brand new handheld gaming system. Itâs yellow. It fits in your pocket. Itâs got a beautiful black and white screen. Itâs not super cheap, but not super expensive. It includes brand new games from some amazing creators. Plus it has a crank....
Donât Fuck with a Nasa Engineer
Mark Rober: Someone stole a package from me. Police wouldnât do anything about it so I spent the last 6 months engineering up some vigilante justice. Revenge is a dish best served fabulously....
Microsoft Is Worth as Much as Apple. How Did That Happen?
Just a few years ago, Microsoft was seen as a lumbering has-been of the technology world. It was big and still quite profitable, but the company had lost its luster, failing or trailing in the markets of the future like mobile, search, online advertising and cloud computing....
Jason Snell on the New Ipad Pros: âa Computer, Not a Pcâ
Jason Snell, writing for Six Colors: With the iPad Pro and improvements to iOS and various iOS apps, I reached a point where I could do most or all of my required work on the road without bringing a Mac along....
Remembering Stan Lee
If Stan Lee revolutionized the comic book world in the 1960s, which he did, he left as big a stamp â maybe bigger â on the even wider pop culture landscape of today. Think of âSpider-Man,â the blockbuster movie franchise and Broadway spectacle....
Austin Mann: A Photographerâs Review of the iPad Pro
Austin Mann has published an excellent review of the new iPad Pro for photographers: I was working with Mavic Pro 2 in the black volcanic deserts of south Iceland. While sitting in the car (in the middle of the desert, in the middle of nowhere), I decided to offload my images and review them....
Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal
Harry McCracken, writing for Time: It was huge news among the small number of people who could be called computer nerds at the time â people like Paul Allen, who was working as a programmer for Honeywell in Boston....
IBMâs Acquisition of Canadian-founded Red Hat One of the Largest Ever
Open source software company Red Hat is being acquired by IBM for $34 billion USD. Depending on who you ask, it is either the second or third-largest tech acquisition of all time....
Steve Jobsâs first reaction to the Genius Bar: âThatâs so idiotic! It will never work!â
In 2000, when Apple hired Ron Johnson to create and run its first retail stores, Johnson got a crash course in working with Steve Jobs. Arguably the centerpiece of what became the Apple Store is the Genius Bar, one of Johnsonâs ideas....