https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
Daring Fireball: Markdown
daring fireballmarkdown
https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax
Daring Fireball: Markdown Syntax Documentation
daring fireballmarkdownsyntaxdocumentation
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2019/08/29/netnewswire-5
Daring Fireball: NetNewsWire 5.0
Link to: https://inessential.com/2019/08/26/netnewswire_5_0_now_available
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https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/04/16/app-store-reviews-are-busted
Daring Fireball: App Store Reviews Are Busted
Link to: https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/04/13/app-store-reviews-are-busted.html
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https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/05/26/ivory-for-mac
Daring Fireball: Ivory for Mac
Link to: https://tapbots.com/ivory/mac/
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https://daringfireball.net/2020/02/tot
Daring Fireball: Tot
Iconfactory’s delightful new notepad app for Mac and iOS.
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https://daringfireball.net/linked/2021/02/17/carlson-webcams
Daring Fireball: Jeff Carlson on Why Webcams Suck
Link to: https://reincubate.com/support/how-to/why-are-webcams-bad/#razer-kiyo
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https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/02/04/fantastical-viticci
Daring Fireball: Federico Viticci's Review of the New Fantastical
Link to: https://www.macstories.net/reviews/the-new-fantastical-review/
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https://daringfireball.net/2026/03/hazeover
Daring Fireball: HazeOver — Mac Utility for Highlighting the Frontmost Window
What HazeOver does is highlight the active window by dimming all background windows. That’s it. But it does this simple task with aplomb, and it makes a...
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https://daringfireball.net/
Daring Fireball
Commentary on Apple, technology, design, politics, and more.
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https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball
Daring Fireball (@daringfireball@mastodon.social) - Mastodon
3.07K Posts, 2 Following, 15.9K Followers · Auto-posted links to new posts at Daring Fireball. Feel free to comment with replies.
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https://daringfireball.net/2026/04/another_day_has_come
Daring Fireball: Another Day Has Come
If you agree that Apple itself was It’s hard to imagine a more orderly, confidence-inspiring, exciting-but-not-at-all-surprising, this-feels-right way to do...
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https://daringfireball.net/2012/08/pixel_perfect
Daring Fireball: Pixel Perfect
Regarding the 15-inch MacBook Pro With Retina Display.
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https://daringfireball.net/linked/2008/may
Daring Fireball Linked List: May 2008
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https://daringfireball.net/2026/01/lets_call_a_murder_a_murder
Daring Fireball: Let’s Call a Murder a Murder
Caitlin Callenson’s courage in the face of insane danger is just remarkable.
daring fireballcallmurder
https://daringfireball.net/2026/02/sometimes_hidden_setting_phone_app
Daring Fireball: A Sometimes-Hidden Setting Controls What Happens When You Tap a Call in the iOS 26...
Apple’s solution to this dilemma — to show the “Tap Recents to Call” in Settings if, and only if, Unified is the current view option in the Phone app — is...
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https://daringfireball.net/2009/11/iphone_web_apps_alternative
Daring Fireball: iPhone Web Apps as an Alternative to the App Store
I think it would be good for everyone — Apple, developers, and iPhone users — if unrestricted web apps became a serious alternative to the restricted App...
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https://daringfireball.net/linked/2019/august
Daring Fireball Linked List: August 2019
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https://daringfireball.net/linked/2004/july
Daring Fireball Linked List: July 2004
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https://daringfireball.net/2017/12/marzipan
Daring Fireball: Marzipan
In short, Apple’s goal should be to make it easier for developers to create good Mac apps, and easier for Mac and iOS app siblings to share code. Apple’s goal...
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https://daringfireball.net/2004/02/send_now_defense
Daring Fireball: Mailsmith ‘Send Now’ Menu Key Defense
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https://daringfireball.net/2017/12/side_button_to_confirm_payments_on_iphone_x
Daring Fireball: Pressing the Side Button to Confirm Payments on iPhone X
People naturally expect everything they do on an iPhone to be done on screen.
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https://daringfireball.net/2020/06/working_the_refs_worked_facebook_and_trump
Daring Fireball: Working the Refs Worked: ‘How Facebook Wrote Its Rules to Accommodate Trump’
Joel Kaplan wanted Facebook to call the same number of fouls against both sides *no matter what fouls were actually committed*. And that’s exactly how Facebook...
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https://daringfireball.net/2004/11/linked_list_placement
Daring Fireball: On the Placement of Linked List Content
The Linked List is now published daily on the web.
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https://daringfireball.net/2007/07/os_x_ipod_nonsense
Daring Fireball: ‘OS X iPod’ Nonsense
Regarding claims that current iPods are based on ‘OS X’.
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https://daringfireball.net/preferences/
Daring Fireball: Display Preferences
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https://daringfireball.net/2010/09/nokia_next
Daring Fireball: What’s Next for Nokia?
It’s not that hardware isn’t important. But everything starts with the software platform.
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https://daringfireball.net/2002/10/listen
Daring Fireball: Listen
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https://daringfireball.net/2016/06/headlines_matter
Daring Fireball: Headlines Matter
Everyone knows what *clickbait* is, but even though we, collectively, are aware of it and presumably attempt to defend against it by not taking headlines at...
daring fireballheadlinesmatter
https://daringfireball.net/2010/11/masquerading_as_mobile_safari
Daring Fireball: Masquerading as Mobile Safari to Get Websites to Serve HTML5 Video to Safari on...
And a discussion of the politics surrounding the issue.
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https://daringfireball.net/2005/03/nyt_credibility
Daring Fireball: On the Credibility of The New York Times
The New York Times is certainly far from perfect, but their recent scandals — significant though they are — don’t reduce them to the level of Think Secret.
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https://daringfireball.net/2014/02/microsoft_past_and_future
Daring Fireball: Microsoft, Past and Future
Whatever course it takes, Microsoft’s future under Satya Nadella will not resemble its past.
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https://daringfireball.net/2011/09/compromise
Daring Fireball: Compromise
Apple and Microsoft have very different stances on compromise in UI design.
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https://daringfireball.net/feeds/
Daring Fireball: RSS Feeds
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https://daringfireball.net/linked/2016/08/05/macupdate-summer-mac-app-bundle
Daring Fireball: MacUpdate's Summer Mac App Bundle
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https://daringfireball.net/2026/01/pickle_smells_like_a_cult
Daring Fireball: Pickle Smells Like a Cult
The only way Pickle could sound *more* like a cult would be if their “employees” (are any of them actually getting paid?) all shaved their heads and wore Hare...
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https://daringfireball.net/2022/11/twitter_tumult
Daring Fireball: Twitter Tumult
If you had told me three weeks ago that Twitter, as a company, would today be embroiled in turmoil over a company-wide email from Elon Musk centered around the...
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https://daringfireball.net/2023/01/meanwhile_over_in_androidtown
Daring Fireball: Meanwhile, Over in Androidtown
Spending a few hours perusing the state of the art in Android Mastodon clients gives me the distinct impression that Android is forever stuck in its Window 3.x...
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https://daringfireball.net/2003/07/bang_for_your_buck
Daring Fireball: Bang for Your Buck
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https://daringfireball.net/2012/10/ipad_mini
Daring Fireball: The iPad Mini
Going non-retina is a particularly bitter pill for me, but I like the iPad Mini’s size and weight so much that I’m going to swallow it.
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https://daringfireball.net/linked/2014/january
Daring Fireball Linked List: January 2014
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https://daringfireball.net/2009/10/pound_the_quality
Daring Fireball: Pound the Quality
Is the App Store popular because the iPhone is great? Or is the iPhone great because the App Store is popular?
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https://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/september
Daring Fireball Linked List: September 2011
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https://daringfireball.net/2008/04/the_invisible_bit
Daring Fireball: The Invisible Bit
How to determine (and set) whether a file or folder is invisible in Mac OS X.
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https://daringfireball.net/2023/07/threads
Daring Fireball: Threads
Some initial thoughts and observations on Facebook’s much-anticipated Twitter rival.
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https://daringfireball.net/2016/02/san_bernardino_password_reset
Daring Fireball: On the San Bernardino Suspect’s Apple ID Password Reset
The key point is that you do not have to unlock an iPhone to have it back up to iCloud. But a locked iPhone *can’t* back up to iCloud if the associated Apple...
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https://daringfireball.net/linked/2022/august
Daring Fireball Linked List: August 2022
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https://daringfireball.net/2021/09/initial_details_on_ids_in_apple_wallet
Daring Fireball: Initial Details on Using Driver’s Licenses and State ID’s in Apple Wallet
Patience and focus are essential to winning a long game, but success can be rather thankless. Apple excels at thankless long games.
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https://daringfireball.net/2007/04/in_my_world
Daring Fireball: In My World
In my world, I look for proof and evidence. Maynor and Ellch’s supposed MacBook Wi-Fi exploit? *Still* unproven. Dino Dai Zovi’s winning exploit in the...
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https://daringfireball.net/2006/09/vapor_fumes
Daring Fireball: High on Vapor Fumes
No one does vaporware like Microsoft does vaporware.
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https://daringfireball.net/2015/02/dazzling_results
Daring Fireball: Dazzling Results
Apple is disrupting the conventional tenets of business even more than they are any particular product category in consumer electronics.
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https://daringfireball.net/2010/03/thoughts_regarding_windows_phone_7
Daring Fireball: Assorted Brief Observations and Thoughts Regarding Windows Phone 7
There’s an old saying that when you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. Microsoft found themselves in a hole the day Apple unveiled the iPhone, but...
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https://daringfireball.net/2017/01/making_sense_of_color_management
Daring Fireball: Craig Hockenberry’s ‘Making Sense of Color Management’
In this book, Craig tells us not just *what* to do, but *why*.
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https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/september
Daring Fireball Linked List: September 2023
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https://daringfireball.net/2011/09/to_the_future
Daring Fireball: All His Life Has He Looked Away, to the Future, to the Horizon. Never His Mind on...
It’s one thing to look at today’s Windows 8 on a tablet and say that it has a lot of potential. It’s another thing altogether to look at it and declare victory.
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https://daringfireball.net/2007/10/blue_in_the_face
Daring Fireball: Blue in the Face
Post-Leopard upgrade “blue screens” are apparently attributable to old versions of Unsanity’s Application Enhancer.
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https://daringfireball.net/2010/10/anthropomorphized_white_iphone_4
Daring Fireball: An Anthropomorphized White iPhone 4 Is Confronted Regarding Its Inability to Be...
The Great White Nope.
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https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/04/14/glider-is-back
Daring Fireball: Glider Is Back in the Mac App Store
Link to: https://bsky.app/profile/engineersneedart.com/post/3mjf3ldjbp22k
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https://daringfireball.net/2007/10/un_in_unsupported
Daring Fireball: The ‘Un’ in ‘Unsupported’
You can’t do unsupported things and expect to be supported for them just because you think these actions should be supported.
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https://daringfireball.net/2006/03/annals_of_journalism
Daring Fireball: The Annals of Journalism
Bryan Chaffin, editor of The Mac Observer: “I personally do *not* view Think Secret as a rumor site. I believe that they follow standard journalistic practices...
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https://daringfireball.net/2026/03/apple_enclaves_neo_camera_indicator
Daring Fireball: Apple Exclaves and the Secure Design of the MacBook Neo’s On-Screen Camera...
“What that means in practice is that even a kernel-level exploit would not be able to turn on the camera without the light appearing on screen.”
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https://daringfireball.net/2025/03/abc_shuts_down_fivethirtyeight
Daring Fireball: ABC Shuts Down FiveThirtyEight, and Pulls the Plug on Its Website
From the perspective of a company the size of Disney, it would cost veritable pennies to keep FiveThirtyEight’s website around forever. What a disgrace.
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https://daringfireball.net/2007/06/platt
Daring Fireball: iPhone Doubter of the Year
There are iPhone doubters, and then there’s David Platt.
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https://daringfireball.net/2025/05/15_years_later_very_insightful_and_not_negative
Daring Fireball: 15 Years Later: ‘Very Insightful and Not Negative’
So, what would *you* do if Steve Jobs was quoted in a viral blog post saying, “We think «*Your Name Here*»’s post is very insightful and not negative”? I...
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https://daringfireball.net/2010/09/ipod_observations
Daring Fireball: Miscellaneous Observations Regarding the Gadgets That Were (and Were Not)...
Regarding the iPods Touch, Nano, and Classic.
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https://daringfireball.net/2026/04/norwegian_boating_licenses_and_generational_law
Daring Fireball: Norwegian Boating Licenses and Generational Law
My spitball idea for a generational law to keep more young people from ever starting a tobacco habit — and thus, nicotine addiction — would be through scaled...
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https://daringfireball.net/2004/05/writing_for_google
Daring Fireball: Writing for Google
Tips for writing articles that answer questions posed to search engines.
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https://daringfireball.net/linked/2016/12/29/on-bullshit
Daring Fireball: Harry Frankfurt's 'On Bullshit'
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https://daringfireball.net/2006/04/feed_me
Daring Fireball: Feed Me
About the members-only syndicated feeds at Daring Fireball.
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https://daringfireball.net/2006/05/good_journalism
Daring Fireball: Good Journalism
Regarding Associated Press reporter Dan Goodin’s story yesterday in which he takes an anecdote about one guy who got hit by the Oompa-Loompa Trojan horse a few...
daring fireballgoodjournalism
https://daringfireball.net/2011/03/nitro_ios_43
Daring Fireball: Why the Nitro JavaScript Engine Isn’t Available to Apps Outside Mobile Safari in...
That Nitro’s availability on iOS is limited to Mobile Safari today does not imply that it will always be limited to Mobile Safari.
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https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/04/13/memory-they-say
Daring Fireball: Memory, They Say, Is the First Thing to Go
Link to: https://daringfireball.net/2006/09/zoom_using_scroll_wheel
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https://daringfireball.net/2015/09/the_iphones_6s
Daring Fireball: The iPhones 6S
Storage capacities and battery life are unchanged from last year’s iPhones. Everything else — the materials it’s made from, the performance of its custom...
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https://daringfireball.net/2003/09/select_word_script_addenda
Daring Fireball: ‘Select Word’ Script Addenda
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https://daringfireball.net/2010/12/emotional_rescue
Daring Fireball: Emotional Rescue
To discount the emotional appeal of Apple’s products is to ignore the entire point of Apple’s products.
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https://daringfireball.net/linked/2021/july
Daring Fireball Linked List: July 2021
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https://daringfireball.net/2023/01/ice_cubes_app_store_limbo
Daring Fireball: App Store Rejection of the Week: Ice Cubes, a Splendid New Mastodon Client
We’re now on the cusp of a new frontier with Mastodon, and it’s Apple’s utterly clueless bureaucratic App Store reviewers who are doing their best to lock the...
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https://daringfireball.net/linked/2015/february
Daring Fireball Linked List: February 2015
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https://daringfireball.net/2011/12/rootkit_eh
Daring Fireball: Rootkit, Eh?
False equivalence in the Carrier IQ saga.
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https://daringfireball.net/2012/01/ibooks_author_file_format
Daring Fireball: On the Proprietary Nature of the iBooks Author File Format
The iBooks format isn’t different just for the sake of being different; it’s different for the sake of being better — not better in the future, after a W3C...
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https://daringfireball.net/2007/09/subpar
Daring Fireball: I’ll Show You ‘Subpar’
The New York Times’s Joe Nocera claims all smartphones suck.
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https://daringfireball.net/2021/05/the_2021_m1_ipad_pros
Daring Fireball: The 2021 M1 iPad Pros
Pound for pound and dollar for dollar, the best computing hardware on the planet. The elephant in the room is iPadOS.
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https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/04/24/xoxo-explore
Daring Fireball: XOXO Explore
Link to: https://xoxofest.com/blog/2026-launching-xoxo-explore/
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https://daringfireball.net/2002/08/unix_switchers
Daring Fireball: Unix Switchers
Tim O’Reilly comes to the point and says something regarding the people who are switching to Mac OS X: that it’s wildly popular with everyone except Mac OS 9...
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https://daringfireball.net/2024/07/att_data_breach_rcs_ios
Daring Fireball: The AT&T Data Breach Shows Why RCS Can’t Be Trusted and the Downside of Apple...
SMS wasn’t dying, but it was slowly fading away, and should have been left for things like automated “your table is ready” notifications from restaurants. RCS...
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https://daringfireball.net/2009/07/ffmpeg2theora
Daring Fireball: Creating Ogg Theora Files on Mac OS X With ffmpeg2theora
I spent some time trying to find the best easy way to create Ogg Theora files on Mac OS X, and I think ffmpeg2theora is it.
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https://daringfireball.net/2024/06/now_qualcomm_went_long
Daring Fireball: Now Qualcomm Went Long
The core genius at the heart of the original “Get a Mac” campaign is that while Long’s Mac character was likable, John Hodgman’s PC — ostensibly the foil — was...
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https://daringfireball.net/2025/01/meta_zuck_content_moderation_zig_zag
Daring Fireball: After Years of Moderation-Heavy Zagging, Zuckerberg Announces That Meta Is Going...
Don’t get distracted by blather. Let’s see what happens.
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https://daringfireball.net/2016/05/instagram_new_look
Daring Fireball: Instagram’s New Look
On Instagram’s new app icon and UI.
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https://daringfireball.net/2010/03/gif_h264_patents
Daring Fireball: GIF, H.264, and Patents
I bring this up not to say browsers should not support Ogg Theora — I’m just saying Ogg is a lot closer to being in GIF’s boat than H.264 is.
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https://daringfireball.net/2024/01/coming_to_grips_with_apples_seemingly_unshakable_sense_of_app_store_entitlement
Daring Fireball: Coming to Grips With Apple’s Seemingly Unshakable Sense of Entitlement to Its...
No matter what the sport, no matter what the letter of the rulebook says, it’s never a good idea to piss off the refs.
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https://daringfireball.net/2007/04/google_desktop_installer
Daring Fireball: A Quick, Possibly Incomplete Guide to What Gets Installed by the Google Desktop...
What gets installed with Google Desktop.
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https://daringfireball.net/2020/03/the_2020_macbook_air
Daring Fireball: The 2020 MacBook Air
Faster, cheaper, and now with a truly great keyboard.
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https://daringfireball.net/2021/04/three_find_my_products_are_months_away
Daring Fireball: Actually, Two of the Third-Party ‘Find My’ Products Announced Yesterday Are Months...
Neither Belkin’s wireless earbuds nor Chipolo’s One Spot tracker will be available until June, so why announce them now?
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https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/04/13/star-ratings-are-garbage
Daring Fireball: Star Ratings Are Garbage, and Hurt Uber and Lyft Drivers
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https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/may
Daring Fireball Linked List: May 2020
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https://daringfireball.net/2024/10/the_sordid_tale_of_rudy_giulianis_yankees_world_series_rings
Daring Fireball: The Sordid Tale of Rudy Giuliani’s Yankees World Series Rings
The real story is — shocker — a scandal. An embarrassment for the Yankees, but almost certainly a crime on Giuliani’s part.
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https://daringfireball.net/2009/11/the_yankees
Daring Fireball: The Yankees
Every team owner *says* they want to win. What I love about the Yankees and respect about the Steinbrenners is that they *mean* it, and act accordingly.
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https://daringfireball.net/2003/01/100_percent_cotton
Daring Fireball: 100 Percent Cotton
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https://daringfireball.net/linked/2019/april
Daring Fireball Linked List: April 2019
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