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Hands on: Apple's savings account for Apple Card owners
After an announcement months ago, Apple Savings is available for Apple Card users to transfer Daily Cash rewards into a high-yield savings account. Here's how to get started.
How to Store Dotfiles - A Bare Git Repository | Atlassian Git Tutorial
It's time to find a better way to store your dotfiles. Learn why you should start using a bare Git repository instead.
Teen welcomes gamers to his second CoMo Retro Games Con
The CoMo Retro Game Con will take place Saturday, with hundreds revisiting their old Atari and Nintendo game days.
Markdown to Bike conversion - BrettTerpstra.com
I’m liking outlining in Jesse Grossjean’s latest app, Bike , for my outlining needs. It’s a simple outliner that can save the content of its outlines to Bike files, OPML documents, or plain text. And
Thousands fled to Mastodon after Musk bought Twitter. Are they still ‘tooting’?
The decentralized social network has seen user numbers drop in recent months, but tech-savvy users remain passionate
Schedule a text message on iPhone, iPad, and Mac
In this blog post I walk through how to get scheduled send for Messages.app, or "schedule a text message to send later on iPhone", with no third-party apps required!
Vivaldi 6.0: Organize tabs with the new Workspaces and personalize your browser with Custom Icons. | Vivaldi Browser
Work or play, separate tabs into different workspaces for more focus, and overhaul the browser’s look totally in Vivaldi’s new exciting update. Get it now on your desktop for a more personal and…
Weekly Musings 203
Welcome to this edition of Weekly Musings, where each Wednesday I share some thoughts about what's caught my interest in the last seven d...
Fantastical’s iOS 14 Widgets
Link to: https://www.macstories.net/reviews/fantastical-debuts-powerful-versatile-widgets-alongside-scribble-for-ipad/
The General Who Loved Blimps Too Much
He was the Air Force’s spy chief. Then he went straight to a firm selling spy gear. Now he’s in trouble.
#DEVDiscuss: Rethinking the Modern Web
Hey Devs, happy Friday 🦥💚 As always, it's been an eventful week in the tech industry. We've got a...
More about the App Store GPL Enforcement — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software
The best mechanical keyboards for gaming
Smash the competition with these amazing boards.
Apollo: A Powerful, Modern Reddit Client for iOS
Reddit is one of those spaces on the Internet that I’ve historically stayed mostly away from. Due to my role at MacStories, however, and a thriving Apple subreddit, I’ve been there more in the past year than all prior years combined. During that time I’ve tried all the best iOS Reddit clients in an attempt
Bear 2 will have a new price only for new customers
Here’s a TL;DR of what’s changing when Bear 2 ships. But we definitely recommend you read the whole post:
Existing Bear Pro customers keep the current price as long as you stay subscribed ($1.49/month or $14.99/year USD). Yes, even if you subscribe between now and when Bear 2 ships
After Bear
The Privacy-Minded Social Network at the Center of the Classified-Document Leak
A young National Guardsman posted hundreds of secret government files to a private Discord group. Then they sat there for months unnoticed.
The Post-Platform Internet
We don't know where to go online now.
reb00ted | Growing the Fediverse
Newton Protest in “Make Something Wonderful”
Thoughts on the mention of the Newton Protest in Steve Jobs’ “Make Something Wonderful.”
The transformation of the word geek
pIn Liar’s Poker, his 1989 seminal account of trading, Michael Lewis has a chapter called “From Geek to Man.” Here’s what he says about “geeks”: “A geek is a circus performer who bites the heads off live chickens and snakes. Or so says the red American Heritage Dictionary.” When Lewis arrived at Salomon Brothers in […]/p
Is Twitter finally dying?
Say goodbye to the old Twitter and hello to the new normal.
Are Pop Lyrics Getting More Repetitive?
Measuring repetition in song lyrics over time using a compression algorithm
Why using a keyboard phone in 2023 kind of rules
The $300 Unihertz Titan Pocket is an imperfect phone that just might be worth it.
News outlets, Twitter, and the fediverse
The news cycle is talking about NPR leaving Twitter. This is a good moment to look at a case study of Heise, a big German news outlet, and what joining Mastodon actually means in terms of numbers and engagement.
Kia EV6 GT review: the attainable, guilt-free supercar
Kia made a fun, attainable supercar but forgot to pump up the battery.
I forgot about the Titlecase API - BrettTerpstra.com
I made a little web service back in 2015 and somewhere in the following 7 years I forgot about it. I’ve been adding title-casing to various projects and plugins and keep writing new code for it…
Is Substack Notes a “Twitter clone”? We asked CEO Chris Best
Substack Notes just dropped. Can the startup survive this foray into social media?
NPR becomes first major news organization to leave Twitter
The decision comes a week after the social media platform began labeling the network as “US state-affiliated media.”