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🥚 Robin’s Viral Egg
: That impressive Robin Williams YouTube impression reflects a real shift in how people become famous in 2021: By ignoring the casting agents and going directly to the audience with a big idea. Still feels kind of icky, though, doesn’t it? 10/12/2021 #108
📲 Porting A Port
: An engineer wanted a USB-C port on his iPhone, so he hacked one in himself. It’s the ultimate manifestation of “if there’s a will, there’s a way.” 10/11/2021 #107
⛏ Your Plot Of Land
: If you care about freedom of speech on the internet, don’t expect Facebook, Twitter, or the law to give it to you. You have to build your free space and take it yourself. And that’s not as hard as it sounds. 10/07/2021 #106
🪛 Don’t Do This
: Computer companies are increasingly encouraging users not to open their devices … while still making it entirely possible to do so. This is actually a positive trend, and Valve’s Steam Deck is at the forefront. 10/05/2021 #105
🖥 Bring Back Personal Websites
: Facebook’s epic downtime on Monday is the best possible reminder we have that the native internet already does what Facebook promised us all. Let popular television actor Matthew Gray Gubler set the example for you. 10/04/2021 #104
🔗 Dead Link Department
: How a working link printed in an old newspaper got me thinking anew about the dead links that cover the internet. 09/30/2021 #103
🗞 More Thoughts on Ozy
: The problem with Ozy is that it existed to raise up one man’s career, and what helps raise profiles doesn’t convince people to click links. 09/28/2021 #102
💨 The Art of Puffery
: The website Ozy might have gotten a bit too bold with its claims of readership, as a New York Times column notes. For many site owners, large or small, it’s an understandable instinct best not acted upon. 09/27/2021 #101
🙏 Bless This Mess
: Why I spent the weekend cleaning my piles of junk by putting them into more intentional, somewhat organized piles. (Hint: I want to be creatively inspired.) 09/23/2021 #100
🔧 Staying the Course
: Perhaps the problem with the digital software we use (particularly of the software-as-a-service variety) is that there is no incentive to build things that continue to work well for long periods of time. 09/21/2021 #99
🌩 Thunder On The Surface
: Microsoft apparently is finally giving into all the complaining tech-heads and embracing Thunderbolt on its Surface line. Wonder if they fixed the security concerns. 09/09/2021 #97
🦴 Clues Blues
: Can we talk about how strange it is that, out of all the things original Blue’s Clues host Steve Burns could have talked to his audience about amid the show’s 25th anniversary, he chose student loans? 09/07/2021 #96
💾 Open To Interpretation
: There’s been a growing push by companies that produce open-source software to either modify the models or move away from them completely. How dangerous is this to the OSS ecosystem in the long run? 09/06/2021 #95
🗓 Let Us Have Our Holidays
: Ransomware attackers are specifically targeting long holiday weekends, like this one, to attack companies of all sizes. The result is that some people may be having to go in this weekend rather than enjoying a three-day break. 09/02/2021 #94
🍎 Small Concessions, Big Problem
: The series of concessions Apple has made over the past week feel like they’re bracing for a potentially even larger concession around the App Store. We should have never let it get to this point. 08/31/2021 #93
🪛 Make Louis Rossmann Famous
: The right-to-repair guru, already well-known on YouTube, has been gaining a reputation outside of the platform lately in part because he has been a willing voice for a budding movement. Right to repair needs him. 08/30/2021 #92
📰 The Paywall Dilemma
: News outlets are becoming more restrictive with their access than ever in an effort to make their paywalls stick, but it threatens to make misinformation far easier to access. A blogging pioneer has a great idea to potentially solve this problem. 08/26/2021 #91