… 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.


Follow-up to the arrival of the Home robots: I also got a Chromecast today. (:


Testing the improvements.


Welp!


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


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.

– Rent in a rich country



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.


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.


adding gender pronouns as a top level profile feature to everything i work on moving forward.

– Dom Hofmann



I’ve had content warnings in my browser when trying to access Flickr and Tumblr in the past few days. Looks like Verizon has been doing a great job. 👍


Don’t feed the trolls.

– Priveleged Person From A Position Of Safety


Emoji thumbs-up > Facebook thumbs-up


Past Shadow



Another move is happening, whilst one is close to completion. Seriously, we should have a Micro.blog Movers pin. 🙃


Turns Out™ … April has been infrastructure month. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


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.