MidRange

By Ernie Smith

Hot takes in 30 minutes or less. A newsletter with an unforgiving deadline, written by Ernie Smith—who’s best known for another newsletter, Tedium.

Three times a week (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday). Hope I hit the 30-minute deadline. ⏲

Previous issues

Editor’s Note

#195 Apr 26, 2022

The Path to Ridiculousness 📺

#194 Apr 25, 2022

Lightning Sputters ⚡️

#193 Apr 21, 2022

#192

Apr 19, 2022

New Slang 💬 – Taking a quick look at the world’s greatest FOIA request, an 83-page document listing the FBI’s attem
#191

Apr 18, 2022

A Belated Modern Embrace 🕹 – For decades, I wasn’t really much of a modern gamer at all. But now, I’m dipping my toes into a new a
#190

Apr 14, 2022

Should Elon Musk Buy Twitter? 🪺 – Taking on the question that’s been on every Twitter user’s mind this morning.Sponsored: Today’s issue
#189

Apr 12, 2022

Bad Subliminal Work 🍨 – The new Baskin-Robbins logo falls into the trap of trying to aim for a new demographic while not prop
#188

Apr 11, 2022

The Room to Speak Up 💬 – Lost in our recent debates on free speech is the context around what created the circumstances for yo
#187

Apr 7, 2022

The Cult of Corporatism 👔 – Two hit shows on Apple TV+ have a hell of a lot to say about corporate culture right now, and it feel
#186

Apr 5, 2022

Your Way Or The Highway 🍔️ – You might have heard Burger King is getting sued over the size of its burger patties. If you’re at al
#185

Apr 4, 2022

The Centralizer’s Lament 😥️ – The guy who helped created Twitter, Jack Dorsey, seems to be regretting his work around that these da
#184

Mar 31, 2022

Mark One Off ✅ – No, it’s not the world’s biggest deal that Google Docs now supports Markdown. But it certainly feels
#183

Mar 29, 2022

How Fast Is Too Fast? 💻 – Over the last decade, solid-state drive technology has improved to the point that it’s now significan
#182

Mar 28, 2022

Remove the Screen 💻 – The fad of removing monitors from MacBook screens to use them as a de facto desktop machine seems a l
#181

Mar 24, 2022

Dial Up the Nostalgia ☎️ – Old landlines are starting to gain a bit of old-school nostalgia, per the New York Times. The reason?
#180

Mar 22, 2022

An !important Distinction ⚠️ – A co-creator of CSS comes out of the woodwork to explain that the !important tag is being used incorr
#179

Mar 21, 2022

A Senseless World – A reporter’s tragic death in a nightclub shooting over the weekend—at a paper I used to work at—has l
#178

Mar 17, 2022

A Difference of Opinion 🧐 – Just to clarify, I do respect what Substack has created. My challenge is that I want to see what that
#177

Mar 15, 2022

Vanced and Vanquished 📺 – Google’s problem with YouTube Vanced reflects the fact that first-party mobile apps don’t allow for e
#176

Mar 14, 2022

Domain Transfer 🔗 – How a small personal gesture gave me a different perspective on the Russian sanctions.Sponsored: Toda

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