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Steph Ango on Mastodon: oops I missed the outage, I was too busy writing in Obsidian The internet broke again. Cloudflare had a wobble, taking down a massive chunk of the web, and everyone panicked. Unless you were working locally. Then you probably didn't even notice until you

Lee Peterson on iPhone photography. With an iPhone I have a choice of lenses, it’s blends in more, I have filters I can use in real time and I can edit on the device itself if I want to edit there and then. I completely agree with this. The

One of my favourite writers, Craig Mod in his Ridgeline Newsletter: The modern smartphone, laden with the corporate ecosystem pulsing underneath its screen, robs us of this feeling, conspires to keep us from “true” fullness. The swiping, the news cycles, the screaming, the idiocy — if anything destroys a muse, it’

Serial EU moaner John Gruber, responding to a measured approach from Nick Heer: I suspect there are going to be a lot of Europeans who buy a new M5 MacBook Pro and wind up charging it with inexpensive low-watt power adapters meant for things like phones, and wind up with

Nick Hilton commenting on Steven Bartlet and posted to LinkedIn: Content being interesting and provocative is more valuable, to creators, than it being accurate or instructional. We’ve known for a long time, stupid headlines get clicks, and this is an extension of that for the video centric world we

Curtis McHale in Productivity as a Fetish edition of their newsletter 3 Threads: Many of the people touting their system actually have a team behind them getting most of the work done. Their only job is to show you the productivity system, not sit in the morass of expectations that

Social platforms, ones that allow people to communicate, share ideas and find common ground, can be a net benefit — but its the platform part thats the issue

Manuel Moreale writing about their inability to Score Books: I suck at this. I genuinely don’t know how to rate things on a scale, which is why the vast majority of the books I rate are either 4 or 4.5. I can’t score things. Not books, not

In news that will surprise absolutely no one, Athena Chapekis reports for Pew Research that Google users are less likely to click on links when an AI summary appears in the results: Google users who encounter an AI summary are less likely to click on links to other websites than