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DDaring Fireball Department of Commerce posted the thread [Sponsor] Glyphs 4 in Technology, Software, and Digital Culture.Glyphs 4 is here: a Mac-native app for creating fonts, lettering, icons, and pictograms. Draw with flexible strokes and efficiently...
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JTrackables: Totally free of charge, totally private, made by a small team of ex-Apple folks. (They might add a paid tier in the...
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JJohn Gruber posted the thread The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Larry Ellison in Technology, Software, and Digital Culture.The Onion: ★
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JCrackerjack new Mac app for creating and editing custom SF Symbols, from developer Amy Worrall: McKinley is Mac-assed out the wazoo...
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JJohn Gruber posted the thread Matt Birchler’s Folding iPhone Predictions in Technology, Software, and Digital Culture.Matt Birchler: Birchler has been using a Samsung Galaxy Fold8 — the new one that preemptively copied the folding iPhone’s aspect...
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JJohn Gruber posted the thread ★ And It’s True That I Stole Your Lighter, and It’s Also True That I Lost the Map in Technology, Software, and Digital Culture.Last week both Google and Apple updated their maps to accommodate Trump changing the United States Geological Survey’s recognized name...
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JJohn Gruber posted the thread Meta AI Has a Native Mac App Now, and It Seems Decent in Technology, Software, and Digital Culture.Zac Hall, writing for 9to5Mac on August 19: Passes the Settings window sniff test too — it actually has a Settings window. Meta...
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JJohn Gruber posted the thread WorkOS: How to Give an Agent a Task Instead of a Token in Technology, Software, and Digital Culture.My thanks to WorkOS for once again sponsoring Daring Fireball. Give an agent an access token and it spreads: into the context window...
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JJohn Gruber posted the thread Matt Haughey: ‘The Car Industry A/B Tested Selling a Car With and Without CarPlay and the Results Are Not Shocking’ in Technology, Software, and Digital Culture.Matt Haughey: It’s not a perfect test. It’s reasonable to argue that Honda has a better brand and reputation than Chevrolet, and is...
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JJohn Gruber posted the thread Trump Administration Launches Rip-Off Video Games at Arcade.gov in Technology, Software, and Digital Culture.A handful of Temu-style knockoffs of games like Flappy Bird, Snake (that’s the one where you round up border-crossing migrants), and...
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JJohn Gruber posted the thread Gurman on Schiller’s Departure and Ternus’s Goals for the App Store in Technology, Software, and Digital Culture.Mark Gurman, in his weekend Power On column at Bloomberg (gift link): I sure hope that’s not true, because that would be...
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JJohn Gruber posted the thread Dickover of the Week: Slashdot Put One in Their RSS Feed in Technology, Software, and Digital Culture.How does this even happen? Who is this for? What possible purpose could by served by injecting a “We value your privacy” dickover into...
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JJohn Gruber posted the thread Litterbox: Safari Extension for Viewing X Tweets in Technology, Software, and Digital Culture.In the wake of Nitter/XCancel’s demise, here’s a delightful new Safari extension from Zhenyi Tan (of And a Dinosaur fame): I love it...
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JJohn Gruber posted the thread Gloria Steinem’s Final Essay in Technology, Software, and Digital Culture.Gloria Steinem, in a posthumous essay for The New Yorker: ★
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JMarco Arment: ★