It saw an incredible rate of evolution, being revised every nine months or so for its entire run
– Stephen Hackett on the 20th anniversary of the iMac G3
Or what Mac users now call the good old days.
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Accessible is a fortnightly podcast about accessibility in tech.
– Accessible, from Steven Aquino and Timothy Buck
I love it when a new podcast is published specifically with a different idea, especially within tech.
🎙️
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No, nothing is changing. Same app you know and love, same team working on it but now with more resources than ever before.
– shifty jelly; The Next Chapter
If nothing else, this is something to hold them against.
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Why would you give a dishonest opinion?
Lol. Let’s all pretend that the world of US and UK politics aren’t what they are, shall we.
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Students at a high school in Dearborn will be evaluated by teachers before prom. If their dresses aren’t appropriate, they’ll be given a Modesty Poncho.
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… Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus owners have a variety of ways to keep their content close.
– Justin Denison announcing new 128GB and 256GB Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus models
Giving your early adopters a kick in the teeth is an interesting strategy. Nice work, Samsung.
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The United States has accepted only 11 Syrian refugees this year.
– Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani outlines the US contribution to the murder of the Syrian populace
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Rising property prices have made it harder for millions of people to buy a home and the number of households renting privately has reached a 30-year high, according to the English Housing Survey.
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Grief is an unpredictable companion.
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I can plug it directly into my MacBook Pro, no dongle.
– Colin Devroe reviews the Pixel 2
I agree with a lot of this and have found a number of other delightful features. This is Android at its best on a phone.
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at the very least, there will be a chronological timeline
– Dom Hofmann is building the successor to Vine and there are open forums for it.
A resurgence of chronological feeds would be awesome.
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adding gender pronouns as a top level profile feature to everything i work on moving forward.
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Don’t feed the trolls.
– Priveleged Person From A Position Of Safety
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Emoji thumbs-up > Facebook thumbs-up
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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.
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It works fine for me.
– Apple Defenders
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… revenues rose to $11.9bn in the first three months of the year, compared to $8bn previously.
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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.
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I’m a fan.
No. You are not. Rather you are aware of the subject in question, have maybe even been exposed to it and maybe even liked it but that does not mean that you are “a fan”.
It’s OK, you can just say:
I’ve read/heard/seen/been to that.
Nothing bad will happen. 👍
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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.
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… 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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Wherever the beam landed, there was a sound like wind blowing through leaves.
– A government report on the farm in China that breeds six billion cockroaches a year.
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Kottke’s post about the health of blogging has (predictably) fared well on my tl. My favourite part:
When I log into Facebook, I see Facebook. When I visit your blog, I see you.
– Kari
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… because my content belongs to me, gosh dang it.
– Cheri Baker, from “What is This?”
This is a great way of representing the IndieWeb aspect of your online identity.
(Cheri on Micro.blog: @cheri)
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Move Fast and Break You
– Literally Mark Zuckerberg
