Link. Progress has been made despite the GOP.
Daily Archives: January 29, 2020
GOP “moderates”: “100% committed to acquitting the President no matter what”
Link. They are on trial. They will be found guilty.
Riding a 90s mountain bike: “It’s just that I’ve been coddled by modern bikes, whose designers have learned a lot in 30 years”
Link. Especially, I think, the last 10y.
“Aperture is, for me, the very model of how a modern MacOS app ought to behave”
Link. Bad start, but good when Cook killed it. Why I dislike Apple.
Aperture: an inside story.
Link. “The indiscriminate killing of features was a harbinger of things to come.” One of Apple’s greatest failures. Also my favorite Apple app.
“In 2019, we each spent $640 on digital subscriptions like streaming video and music services, cloud storage, dating apps and online productivity tools”
Link. Similar to coffee bill for most. My family is below this currently. Cable not included but we don’t do that.
Fantastical leaps cost to $40 a year
Link. Insane. No friggin way.
“likely causal detrimental role of prenatal alcohol exposure on cognitive outcomes”
Link. Women at risk for pregnancy can’t drink. This is depressing
So you think you can be a reality TV producer
Link. Stross delightful rant on broadcast TV and especially reality TV.
Lowe on Charles Lieber China scandal.
Link. He’ll have to plead.
Micro.blog adds blog hosted replies.
Link. Standards based AMAP.
PNG compression tools
Link. Preview mostly suffices.