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Spotify’s Joe Rogan controversy and things more important than that
I see a lot of takes on Twitter along the lines of “while you were going on about Joe Rogan and Spotify, happened.” But the thing about Spotify is that they are a pretty replaceable service. It’s easy for us to stop giving Spotify money if we decide we don’t like that Spotify is giving…
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Modern Retro Gaming
During the pandemic, I got a package from a Kickstarter I backed. It was a new video game made by an indie artist called Trophy. I held onto it, waiting to unbox it until after vaccines were widely available and I could go play it with a friend of mine. The twist? This was a…
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SwiftScript
This is longer than a tweet would be so instead of making a Twitter thread that’s super annoying that you have to scroll through, I’ll make an actual blog post like a gentleman. I have a free idea for Apple: SwiftScript. It’s the successor to AppleScript. It doesn’t replace Shortcuts, but it’s what you graduate…
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The Moonlander Zip Kit – a Mini-Review
The Zip Kit is one of those oddly specific products a company makes where you see it for the first time and you think “wow, they must have made this specifically for me, and me alone.” When I first got my Moonlander keyboard, one of the first things I did was rip out the top…
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“This is a day I’ve been looking forward to for two and a half years”
Fifteen years ago to this day, Steve Jobs unveiled iPhone to the world. I’ve watched this introduction a number of times on YouTube, and every time I watch it I’m taken right back to that cold January day in 2007 when I sat in my dorm room watching the event. But this is the funny…
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Monetizing the Web Beyond Ads
Reading articles on the web nowadays is an absolute fucking mess. When I try to read news articles on the web without an ad blocker, I’m honestly not sure whether that publisher even wants me to be able to read anything. Heaven help you if you’re on your mobile phone; your entire screen is just…
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Photos for iOS: Find All Items From a Specific App
Another little tidbit that I discovered recently: if you are saving a lot of photos or videos to your photo library from a specific app (such as, for instance, TikTok), and you want to collect these images in one place, you can do it pretty easily! Open one of the photos or videos, then press…
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Photos for Mac: Deleting Items From Within a Playlist
As part of my workflow for archiving downloaded videos from TikTok, I put TikTok videos into a manually created album in the Photos app so that I can drag them in one step into the Finder. But after I was done, I couldn’t delete the items from my photo library; the option doesn’t exist when…
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Use Codespaces with Mutagen and keep your local dev tools
At GitHub, we recently went all in on Codespaces for developing GitHub itself. If you were a VS Code user and did all your Git stuff either in VS Code or on the command line, it was great. But for the curmudgeons like me who are big fans of local Mac development tools like TextMate…
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Apple Laptops: The icanthascheezburger buyer’s guide
I am absolutely delighted at the new pro laptops Apple announced last week. I’m not going to make this post about Apple’s overall history of laptops over the last decade (others can explain it better) but this new release is Apple showing they are back on track to making excellent Mac laptops for their pro…