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05/20/2021 #49
🖼 Cropped Out
: How concerns about bias led Twitter to drop its machine-learning algorithms for automatically cropping photos. 05/18/2021 #48
⏱ A Superhuman Wait
: Writing down my feelings about a startup that decided to admit me to their exclusive service four years after I actually cared. Note: If you don’t want a writer to mock your exclusivity in their newsletter, don’t make them wait four years. 05/17/2021 #47
🔥 Flamin’ Hot Embellishment
: A story about the guy who invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos, currently being made into a film, in fact might largely be false—and the subject of at least one other famous Hollywood movie might have done the same thing. 05/13/2021 #46
🤡 Remote Control Takes
: Pondering why there seems to be a sudden rush of bad takes on why people need to go back to the office after more than a year in the remote-work wilderness. 05/11/2021 #45
📺 Don’t Make Lorne Mad
: Elon Musk’s appearance on SNL, seen in light of the artists that SNL has banned over the years, is a reminder that orthodoxy reigns supreme on the sketch show. 05/10/2021 #44
🚗 Road Writing 101
: How innovation has made the process of writing in a moving vehicle a lot less painful than it was just a few years ago (he writes as he’s in a moving vehicle). 05/06/2021 #43
🧲 Open MagSafe
: How I accidentally learned that the Linux-based PinePhone is compatible with the iPhone’s fancy MagSafe wallets right out of the box. 05/04/2021 #42
📲 First-Mover Advantage
: The problem with the mobile ecosystem, being stress-tested by Epic vs. Apple, is highlighted by the fact that Clubhouse isn’t a Progressive Web App, when it honestly could be. 05/03/2021 #41
💿 Kings Of Consistency
: The reason why Kings of Convenience hit so unexpectedly hard with its new single last week might be because consistency is a huge asset in the streaming era. 04/29/2021 #40
🐿 Squirrel Story
: How I got attacked by a squirrel when I was in college—and why I absolutely deserved it. 04/27/2021 #39
🕳 Gopher Hole
: A recent saga involving the Linux kernel reflects the way that open-source communities are built around trust—and breaking that trust is a big no-no. 04/26/2021 #38
🦫 Beavers Destroy The Internet
: Pondering why beavers would dare use their natural skills to damage something as important as the internet for hundreds of people. 04/22/2021 #37
🍎 The Cupertino Shakedown
: Why the leak-friendly Apple press really needs to think hard about their next moves as a ransomware attack threatens to turn into an extortive motherlode of leaks. 04/20/2021 #36
💾 30 Seconds of Ubuntu
: Why a fleeting moment in a buzzy movie makes me think 2021 is the year of Linux on the desktop. 04/19/2021 #35
🌱 The Hissing Of Mowing Lawns
: My not-really-that-hard-fought battle against the tyranny of the lawn opens up a new front in Las Vegas. 04/15/2021 #34
🛍 Not-So-Mysterious Ways
: COVID-19’s devastating impact on mainstream retail ultimately rewarded good business practices and harshly punished bad ones. 04/13/2021 #33
🍽 Golden Slumbers
: Nearly a year after writing about the pandemic’s impact on the buffet, I consider the issue again—after noticing that a Golden Corral location near my house permanently closed. 04/12/2021 #32
📼 Living On Rented Time
: The death of Family Video, the last notable major video rental chain in the U.S., reflects how COVID-19 destroyed even businesses that survived prior disruptions. 04/08/2021 #31