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July 2024 ³

I went to Death Valley to experience 129 degrees   11 Jul 2024
Google’s greenhouse gas emissions jump 48% in five years   3 Jul 2024
Critical flaws in CocoaPods expose iOS and macOS apps to supply chain attacks   2 Jul 2024

June 2024 ⁸

TSA reports another record setting day of travel   25 Jun 2024
That time Boehner was troubled by unseemly GOP behavior   23 Jun 2024
TikTok makes its First Amendment case   21 Jun 2024
You can finally use iCloud with macOS virtual machines   20 Jun 2024
watchOS 11 supports automatic nap detection   17 Jun 2024
Microsoft recalls Recall   14 Jun 2024
Elon Musk is livid about new OpenAI/Apple deal   11 Jun 2024
Apple to release a dedicated Passwords app   6 Jun 2024

May 2024 ¹⁶

The team behind Halide launched a video app called Kino   30 May 2024
Jury finds Trump guilty on all counts in hush money trial   30 May 2024
Meta’s shift away from the ‘daily active users’ metric   29 May 2024
Exploit allows iOS apps to use animated icons   27 May 2024
White v. Samsung   26 May 2024
TikTok is now reporting on political influence campaigns   25 May 2024
TSA reports record number of passengers in a single day   25 May 2024
Daily cannabis use overtakes alcohol in the U.S.   24 May 2024
U.S. sues Ticketmaster and owner Live Nation   23 May 2024
Apple Music 100 Best Albums   22 May 2024
Cynthia Bowman joins Apple after departing BofA   22 May 2024
Hawaiʻi awarded $916 million over ineffective Plavix   21 May 2024
Microsoft Surface performance claims are meaningless   21 May 2024
The forged Apple employee badge   18 May 2024
Delta is changing its logo after Adobe threatened it   18 May 2024
Increased battery lifespan in the iPhone 15   14 May 2024

January 2024 ¹

NASA's botched moon launch   10 Jan 2024

December 2023 ¹

Apple announces contingent pricing for subscriptions   16 Dec 2023

May 2023 ¹

Save the male chicks   2 May 2023

April 2023 ⁴

Twitter is complying with more government demands under Elon Musk   29 Apr 2023
Tim Cook on shaping the future of Apple   20 Apr 2023
Make Something Wonderful   7 Apr 2023
The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every modern copy of macOS   5 Apr 2023

March 2023 ⁹

White House won’t pay for Twitter verification   31 Mar 2023
Twitter recommendation algorithm is now open-source   31 Mar 2023
The country’s oldest public bank   31 Mar 2023
Trump Indictment   30 Mar 2023
Intel founder Gordon Moore has passed away   26 Mar 2023
Steve Jobs saved a long-time Mac developer from an early death   24 Mar 2023
DPReview.com to close   21 Mar 2023
Feds arrest alleged BreachForums owner linked to FBI hacks   18 Mar 2023
Pedometer++ v5.0: A Passion for the Wilderness   2 Mar 2023

February 2023 ⁹

National Legal and Policy Center wants Cook and Gore off Apple board   24 Feb 2023
GoDaddy says a multi-year breach hijacked customer websites and accounts   17 Feb 2023
Susan Wojcicki stepping back from YouTube CEO role   17 Feb 2023
The maze is in the mouse   16 Feb 2023
Former Minister for Foreign Affairs in Sweden is joining an Apple advisory board   16 Feb 2023
Proposals but no consensus on curbing water shortages in Colorado River basin   14 Feb 2023
Kareem’s thinking on LeBron breaking his NBA scoring record   11 Feb 2023
Texting after hanging   11 Feb 2023
Jupiter has 92 moons   6 Feb 2023

January 2023 ⁴

A visionary on a motorcycle   31 Jan 2023
Rihanna’s Road to Halftime   30 Jan 2023
Our little universes   29 Jan 2023
HomePod is back   20 Jan 2023

December 2022 ²

A look at the time Tucker Carlson asked Hunter Biden for a favor   4 Dec 2022
House Democrats pick top leadership that includes zero white men   2 Dec 2022

November 2022 ¹³

Josh Centers is moving on from TidBITS   14 Nov 2022
v1.6.0 of Quattle now available   13 Nov 2022
Elon’s Twitter is in the Sh*tter   7 Nov 2022
Lock Screen Widgets in iOS 16   5 Nov 2022
WidgetBundle improvements in iOS 16.1   5 Nov 2022
Apple kills long-time event archive on YouTube   5 Nov 2022
What a week it has been   4 Nov 2022
Welcome to hell, Elon   3 Nov 2022
How John Deere built its own cellular network for its factory   3 Nov 2022
iPhone 14 Pro Camera Review: A Small Step, A Huge Leap   3 Nov 2022
Elon Musk could cut half of Twitter’s workforce   2 Nov 2022
Twitter cancels Chirp developer conference   2 Nov 2022
Elon Musk will let you pay $8 to be a verified ‘lord’ on Twitter   1 Nov 2022

October 2022 ²⁰

Objective-C   31 Oct 2022
How to Grow a 2,560-Pound Pumpkin   31 Oct 2022
Taylor Swift achieves her 11th No. 1 album   31 Oct 2022
White House invites dozens of nations for ransomware summit   31 Oct 2022
Minimum Viable Centralization   31 Oct 2022
Live Activities in iOS 16.1   28 Oct 2022
Ali Abdaal’s AI Twitter thread   28 Oct 2022
Elon Musk acquires Twitter and fires top executives   28 Oct 2022
Podcast app Pocket Casts goes open source   26 Oct 2022
Poor, less white US neighborhoods get worst internet deals   21 Oct 2022
Elon Musk plans to cut 75% of Twitter workforce   20 Oct 2022
New York City’s Answer to Its Rat Problem: Asking You to Take the Trash Out Later   19 Oct 2022
Magic, utility, and redesigning Material.io   19 Oct 2022
Sound   19 Oct 2022
This Week in Google: 681   16 Oct 2022
Kara Swisher’s last Code Conference   12 Oct 2022
The new Pixel 7’s ‘Guided Frame’ feature   12 Oct 2022
An Oral History of Apple’s Infinite Loop   12 Oct 2022
Remembering Steve Jobs   12 Oct 2022
The Steve Jobs Archive   11 Oct 2022

May 2022 ⁴

The music lives on   10 May 2022
Activity Monitor in macOS is wrong about energy usage of Apple silicon   4 May 2022
Menorah bongs and Talmudic toking: The secret history of Judaism and cannabis   4 May 2022
New Jersey's nation-leading bag ban set to take effect this week   2 May 2022

April 2022 ²⁶

Musk flips Twitter the bird   27 Apr 2022
Studio Display webcam complaints are fair, but the importance is being overblown   27 Apr 2022
The syntax of virtual performatives   26 Apr 2022
Elon Musk to acquire Twitter   26 Apr 2022
CNN+ is shutting down one month after launch   22 Apr 2022
GitHub can't be trusted. Or, how suspending Russian accounts deleted project history and pull requests   20 Apr 2022
Kmart nears extinction   16 Apr 2022
Elon Musk offers to buy Twitter in takeover attempt   14 Apr 2022
Cities ask Netflix, Hulu, streaming services to pay cable fees   13 Apr 2022
The future of Deliveries   12 Apr 2022
v1.5.5 of Quattle now available   12 Apr 2022
Elon Musk won’t join Twitter’s board after all   11 Apr 2022
Why your git email address matters   10 Apr 2022
Rethinking the term Sub-Saharan Africa   10 Apr 2022
Trump officials failed to provide accounting of foreign gifts   10 Apr 2022
Muzzling the defense   9 Apr 2022
The launch event for Windows 95   9 Apr 2022
A new wide variant of San Francisco font?   9 Apr 2022
iCloud+ custom email domains should be better   7 Apr 2022
Windows 3.1 turns 30   6 Apr 2022
Apple announces WWDC 2022   5 Apr 2022
Suddenly, Tesla’s Elon Musk is Twitter’s biggest stakeholder   4 Apr 2022
German man got COVID jab 87 times   2 Apr 2022
Infinite Mac: an instant-booting Quadra in your browser   2 Apr 2022
Microsoft deletes tweet featuring an M1 iMac   1 Apr 2022
Facebook paid GOP firm to malign TikTok   1 Apr 2022

March 2022 ²⁴

TikTok used by 16 per cent of British toddlers   31 Mar 2022
White House logs show 7-hour gap in Trump’s calls on Jan. 6   29 Mar 2022
Vladimir Putin stole a Super Bowl ring   28 Mar 2022
Apple’s CODA wins historic Oscar for Best Picture at the Academy Awards   28 Mar 2022
v1.5.4 of Quattle now available   26 Mar 2022
v1.5.3 of Quattle now available   24 Mar 2022
Stephen Wilhite, creator of the GIF, has died   23 Mar 2022
Apple TV app on Android TV & Google TV no longer lets users buy/rent movies   23 Mar 2022
SystemSix   20 Mar 2022
Apple’s M1 Ultra chip is good for you, but a problem for Intel, AMD, and Nvidia   18 Mar 2022
No, we shouldn’t make DST permanent   15 Mar 2022
DigitalOcean has acquired CSS-Tricks   15 Mar 2022
‘Pro’ has lost all meaning, and Apple knows it   14 Mar 2022
v1.5.2 of Quattle now available   12 Mar 2022
Apple's superlative-heavy event happened   9 Mar 2022
Hate for Putin   8 Mar 2022
A new speed milestone for Chrome   7 Mar 2022
Do journalists need to be brands?   7 Mar 2022
Apple Maps and Weather now say Crimea is part of Ukraine   5 Mar 2022
Dieter Bohn bids farewell   5 Mar 2022
Our Oligarch   5 Mar 2022
v1.5.1 of Quattle now available   3 Mar 2022
Apple announces Peek Performance event   3 Mar 2022
Apple on Russian invasion of Ukraine   2 Mar 2022

February 2022 ¹⁹

v1.5.0 of Quattle now available   22 Feb 2022
Here's to the crazy ones   22 Feb 2022
Trump's TRUTH Social launches   21 Feb 2022
Dates don't belong in permalinks   19 Feb 2022
Akamai to acquire Linode   15 Feb 2022
Nevada, casinos rescind mask mandates effective immediately   15 Feb 2022
Coinbase’s bouncing QR code Super Bowl ad   15 Feb 2022
Missouri prosecutor won't charge St. Louis Post-Dispatch journalist   14 Feb 2022
Actually the metaverse has always been a thing   10 Feb 2022
Open App Store principles   10 Feb 2022
Why I love this epic fail by Steve Jobs   9 Feb 2022
Why is Windows called Windows?   7 Feb 2022
Apple already fined again   7 Feb 2022
Distributing dating apps in the Netherlands   6 Feb 2022
Meta’s market value plunges by $230 billion in one day   3 Feb 2022
Trump’s words, and deeds, reveal depths of his drive to retain power   3 Feb 2022
PWAs are still out of App Library   1 Feb 2022
Cannabis can prevent COVID-19 infection   1 Feb 2022
Trump’s unusual habit of ripping up documents   1 Feb 2022

January 2022 ²¹

Further thoughts on the sale of Wordle   31 Jan 2022
The New York Times just purchased Wordle   31 Jan 2022
No, Apple did not crowdfund :focus-visible in Safari   31 Jan 2022
Rich CLI   31 Jan 2022
Why can’t Spotify edit Joe Rogan?   31 Jan 2022
YarnBuddy developer is making a game for kids   31 Jan 2022
App Store now supports unlisted apps   30 Jan 2022
Spotify (sort of) responds to controversy   30 Jan 2022
Coldest night of the year   30 Jan 2022
iOS 15.4 beta adds support for setting up custom email domains with iCloud Mail   29 Jan 2022
Joni Mitchell removes music from Spotify in protest of Joe Rogan’s podcast   29 Jan 2022
Apple should bring back Dashboard   29 Jan 2022
iPad turns 12 years old today   28 Jan 2022
Rise calendar app   28 Jan 2022
Reader theme variant   28 Jan 2022
Windows 3.1 remnants spotted in Windows 11   27 Jan 2022
Downstream #9: Little Crown Jewel   26 Jan 2022
MultiClock   25 Jan 2022
JWST reaches final orbit in space   25 Jan 2022
Anti-Semitic email rocks the silicon slopes   5 Jan 2022
v1.4.0 of Quattle now available   1 Jan 2022

December 2021 ²⁰

Rest in power, Betty White   31 Dec 2021
The gospel of Donald Trump Jr.   31 Dec 2021
Blackberry is finally end of life   30 Dec 2021
Stolen property is considered income   28 Dec 2021
California's epic snowstorms   28 Dec 2021
Autocorrect is broken   27 Dec 2021
v1.3.0 of Quattle now available   27 Dec 2021
NASA's Webb telescope launches   25 Dec 2021
Google's Santa Tracker   24 Dec 2021
(mac)OStalgia   21 Dec 2021
Amazon is shutting down Alexa Internet   21 Dec 2021
Analogue Pocket review   17 Dec 2021
H&R Block sues Jack Dorsey's Block   17 Dec 2021
Jekyll live reload shell script   17 Dec 2021
MacStories Selects 2021   13 Dec 2021
Redesigned Notepad for Windows 11   11 Dec 2021
Jeff Bezos has a really flat butt   11 Dec 2021
Very Peri   9 Dec 2021
In disbelief over battery life   7 Dec 2021
Facebook reverses Kyle Rittenhouse policy   1 Dec 2021

November 2021 ³

Apple silicon temperatures   17 Nov 2021
Apple announces Self Service Repair   17 Nov 2021
The network quality command in Monterey   15 Nov 2021

October 2021 ¹

macOS added new FaceTime indicators   14 Oct 2021

September 2021 ¹

Runaway corebrightnessd process   29 Sep 2021

June 2021 ²

Weather app for iPad   18 Jun 2021
New Technologies WWDC 2021   11 Jun 2021

April 2021 ⁵

Say hello to the new iMac   22 Apr 2021
The case of the top secret iPod   15 Apr 2021
Family sues after California man dies in taco eating contest   8 Apr 2021
'No Justice, No Peeps'   4 Apr 2021
The U.S. seems to be headed toward a meaningful recovery   4 Apr 2021

May 2020 ³

Sundar Pichai on managing Google through the pandemic   24 May 2020
Joe Rogan is moving to Spotify   19 May 2020
Could the numbers get better after states reopen?   5 May 2020

April 2020 ²⁵

Two spaces after a period is an error   26 Apr 2020
Why telling people they don't need masks backfired   24 Apr 2020
An oral history of the day everything changed   24 Apr 2020
420 (cannabis culture)   20 Apr 2020
'The Opening'   17 Apr 2020
Apple and Google partner on COVID-19 contact tracing technology   10 Apr 2020
Larry David, master of his quarantine   10 Apr 2020
Bill Gates saw this coming   9 Apr 2020
New Jersey added hospital census data to the COVID-19 dashboard   9 Apr 2020
NYC COVID-19 data is available on GitHub   9 Apr 2020
Unicode 14.0 delayed for 6 months   8 Apr 2020
The Coronation   8 Apr 2020
The worm is back   8 Apr 2020
Bernie Sanders exits the race   8 Apr 2020
COVID-19 vs cold vs flu vs allergies   7 Apr 2020
Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro now listed on Amazon   7 Apr 2020
The Apple designed face shield   7 Apr 2020
Let's all wear a mask   7 Apr 2020
Should you sanitize your groceries?   3 Apr 2020
Ten years of iPad   3 Apr 2020
The O'Brien memos addressing COVID-19   2 Apr 2020
Hardware microphone disconnect in Mac and iPad   2 Apr 2020
Block Island   2 Apr 2020
Reopening the economy is pointless when cities are under siege   2 Apr 2020
Apple lets Amazon Prime Video app offer in-app purchases   1 Apr 2020

March 2020 ¹²

Dark Sky has a new home   31 Mar 2020
New York was not designed for emptiness   31 Mar 2020
Leaked screenshots of Apple's CarKey feature   28 Mar 2020
Episode 470 of Back to Work   25 Mar 2020
New Jersey COVID-19 dashboard   24 Mar 2020
Pandemic Priorities   22 Mar 2020
Apple directing funds to COVID-19 relief efforts   19 Mar 2020
The Avenue   18 Mar 2020
Spread of the coronavirus emoji   17 Mar 2020
Microsoft announces change to its board of directors   17 Mar 2020
The Verge's review of the Mac Pro   8 Mar 2020
SXSW canceled over COVID-19 concerns   6 Mar 2020

February 2020 ⁸

Coronavirus impacts Apple's revenue guidance   17 Feb 2020
Inside Mark Zuckerberg's lost notebook   16 Feb 2020
MWC canceled due to coronavirus   14 Feb 2020
Taika Waititi on Apple keyboards   13 Feb 2020
Force close an app   13 Feb 2020
The design philosophy of Steve Jobs   7 Feb 2020
Fantastical 3 has been released   4 Feb 2020
Which emoji scissors close   2 Feb 2020

January 2020 ³

Samsung is up to old tricks   7 Jan 2020
Ricky Gervais just roasted Apple and Hollywood   5 Jan 2020
Creating link posts with Jekyll   3 Jan 2020

December 2019 ⁹

The iPhone 4 debacle   30 Dec 2019
Bourdain Confidential   27 Dec 2019
‘The Surprise’   25 Dec 2019
A desire to write (again)   20 Dec 2019
Really, Wawa?   19 Dec 2019
A thief took Facebook hard drives with payroll data   14 Dec 2019
Apple TV+ scores its first award nomination with ‘The Morning Show’   8 Dec 2019
Steve Jobs-signed floppy disk sold at auction for crazy high amount   6 Dec 2019
App Store best of 2019   2 Dec 2019