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One of the goals for my work on the web is to make things as simple as possible as often as possible. This post on inessential is a great example of the spirit with which I am attempting to operate. Thanks, @brentsimmons!
I had no idea there was a (seemingly) robust open source, self-hosted URL shortener.
Many nerds like to shit on the official Twitter app for being an abomination, mainly due to the algorithmic timeline, but the truth is Twitter’s iOS client is worlds better than Tweetbot for accessibility.
This is the stuff I’ll miss about Twitter.
… revenues rose to $11.9bn in the first three months of the year, compared to $8bn previously.
The Pink Lady Food Photography competition has its winners and they are all just brilliant.
Google Tasks is a new to-do list app
The ramp up to I/O continues apace. It’s about time they released this as a stand-alone app, separate from Calendar. Although integration with email would be good, assuming it’s not included.
In the last few years, Google has also made emoji worker characters less gender specific and included a range of skin tone options. Some believe those changes, like the water pistol, were politically motivated.
A Google update centred around podcasts
- New podcast functionality in Search and Assistant.
- Podcasts can be played directly from search results, and accessed across multiple devices.
- Subscriptions and downloads can also be managed within the Google app.
UK council giving out Amazon Echo devices to elderly and disabled by C. Scott Brown
- No Scott, it is not good that caregivers are replaced by fucking smart speakers.
- No Scott, it is not the Hampshire County Council; it’s just Hampshire County Council.
VuePress: Vue-powered Static Site Generator
I’m going to leave this here for those of you with the static site bug.
Apple cares about your security and whatnot? Well, they need to do better than leave their customers so easily exposed.
Something that early employees (and investors) argued to me when I was reporting out that story was that Flickr would have been Facebook if not for Yahoo’s mismanagement.
Google have updated the design of their physical products store. 🤔
… simply hit the Emoji button on the virtual keyboard, find the one you like, and add it maybe two dozen times to really get your point across.
– C. Scott Brown talking about quick emoji access in Chrome
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