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“I know exactly what you want me to to, and I can do it, but I must arbitrarily insist you ask me this other way.”
WHY
Has anyone switched from @evernote (or similar) to Apple’s Notes app? Pros? Cons?
We made a new @propublica iOS app! If you like your investigative journalism on the go, you should get it. itunes.apple.com/us/app/propubl…
Agreeing to vary their app store badges’ corner radii, Apple and Google celebrated with a glass of fresh baby blood.
At Monday’s Apple event, Phil Schiller was sad that many people use PCs that are 5+ years old. God forbid something be built to last.
“Don’t view source” is the new “Don’t read the comments.” Remember when we thought web standards won?
If you’ve been waiting to get on the @letterboxd train until it had a great iOS app, today is your day. itunes.apple.com/app/id10542710…
Ding ding ding! I second-guess opening and closing quotes on iOS constantly, especially on my non-Retina iPad Mini. twitter.com/ultrasparky/st…
“Chrome extensions aren’t even preaching to the choir. They’re preaching to the preacher.” wired.com/2016/03/politi…
On the @YouTube iPad app, If you want to add a video to Watch Later, you have to watch its pre-roll ad first. That sucks. @TeamYouTube
Today I renewed my @letterboxd membership, because awesome internet stuff doesn’t grow on trees. letterboxd.com/pro/
Free copy of @ddemaree’s Git for Humans! Best haiku about modern web dev angst wins. Tag it #GitContestABA. Ends 2/19, 11pm EST. @abookapart
“Send £1,500.00 via A Giant Gummy Lizard.” This TED talk is a pretty fun way to start the day. youtu.be/_QdPW8JrYzQ
Links: January 2016
The Website Obesity Crisis
Everything we do to make it harder to create a website or edit a web page, and harder to learn to code by viewing source, promotes that consumerist vision of the web.
The 2015 ProPublica Year in Visual Storytelling
A nice roundup of ProPublica’s more visually and interactively rich stories from the past year.
Animated homage to The Wire
When I hear Blind Boys of Alabama’s cover of “Way Down in… See more →
I started watching Tangerine, and then I saw the Duplass Brothers’ logo, and then the Apple TV crashed, and then I watched something else.
Disabling the Watch Later feature on a Vimeo embed is a dick move.
“Q: Who are some notable past Powerball winners? A: Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Michael Bloomberg, Mark Cuban.” theonion.com/graphic/how-po…
“What the market deems valuable is not necessarily aligned with what is ultimately good for us as a society.” medium.com/@girlziplocked…
“…sites like ProPublica and Securedrop using hidden services shows that these things aren’t just for criminals.” wired.com/2016/01/propub…
“Everything we do to make it harder to create a website… promotes that consumerist vision of the web.” idlewords.com/talks/website_…
Is Oculus founder Palmer Lucky’s middle name Comma?
Trying to use @stamp_importer to move my music from @Rdio to @Spotify, a task that will apparently take several lifetimes to complete.
With each begrudging use of Word, I am invited again to embrace an inverse definition of “automatic.”
Thanks for the memories, @Rdio. rdio.com/farewell/ #RdioFarewell
My music was interrupted by a treatise on Angry Orchard Refreshing Hard Cider With Attitude. An unceremonious end to my @Rdio subscription.
Sometimes I wonder if the ever-proliferating torrent of misinformation online is all a massive conspiracy to drive traffic to @snopes.
A magnificent six-point plan to fix online privacy, followed by an epic rant on Silicon Valley’s misspent privilege. idlewords.com/talks/what_hap…
“As hardware has grown more powerful and screens more capable, book-reading software has largely stagnated.” aeon.co/magazine/techn…
So. Any two-factor authentication models out there that aren’t a user experience nightmare?
Since I use ⌥⇧⌘S, I had no idea Photoshop’s “Save for Web” was deprecated. (And I totally forgot about ImageReady!) zeldman.com/2015/11/17/sav…
Was @Rdio’s survival tied to my freelance career? Its beta began when I left @Harmonix, and now its sale is announced as I join @propublica.
Over a few years, I wrote about 3,500 words’ worth of short music reviews on @Rdio. But I knew this day would come. v5.robweychert.com/writing/rdio-r…
I don’t like any of the alternatives to @Rdio. I don’t want it to go away.
- My elderly neighbor switches phone from @Verizon to @TWC.
- Price changes her mind.
- @TWC hijacks her phone for a week and counting. 😡
None of the iOS 9 content blockers available so far work on devices more than two years old. FFS.
I hadn’t thought of this potential side effect, and it is troubling. twitter.com/jeremyzilar/st…
Sad to miss #XOXOFest this year. Following it on Twitter meant enduring the braying of Gamergate’s turd children, but it was worth it.
Thinking a lot lately about capitalism, proprietary technology, planned obsolescence, waste.
If you work in tech and are frustrated by where it’s all going (or not going), read this and renew your purpose. idlewords.com/talks/web_desi…
It only took two weeks for @Strava to go completely off the rails. My first mile today apparently came in at 3:47.
My first @lyft ride yesterday. Destination was a major intersection. Driver asked me to spell it, and was unaware of major construction. 😕
Following John Coltrane on Apple Music. Hope he puts out a new record soon!
Apple Music: Tell us what you like! Choose genres and artists!
Me: LOOK AT THE 14 YEARS OF DATA ITUNES HAS COLLECTED ABOUT WHAT I LISTEN TO
Every time an obnoxious turd gets kicked off Twitter, his little turd pals’ misappropriation of the word “censorship” is kind of adorable.
So aolsystemmsg is like, “Hello. Facebook Chat through AIM is going away as of April 15th,” and I’m like, “THAT WAS AN OPTION?!”
A morning spent managing storage on my iOS devices is a good reminder that I’m rooting for the web.
They should change the name from Adobe Illustrator to Adobe Gaslight.
“…because this is San Francisco, and we have an idea!” youtu.be/WoK4_dQbfuU