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Seven years in and we’re ten minutes to midnight on the Grues Day Clock.

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Sometimes I wear my Infocom T-Shirt to company meetings, just to see if any of my people are out there, or if we’re all likely to be eaten by a grue.

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I still remember the day when Nate Weiner invited me to join the Product Meetings at Pocket. It was the first time I’d worked in an organization where engineering was given a seat at that table and a voice in this conversation; it meant the world to me.

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* Eats cookie for breakfast
* Enters cookie into meal tracker
* Sobs at cookie calorie cost
* Eats other cookie

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We have released Pocket 8.0.5 for iOS. One of the biggest changes is that you can now install the iPad app on M1 macs.

To make room for this new experience, we have removed the original Pocket macOS app from sale.

I have a lot of warm feelings for our original macOS app: I was the sole maintainer for seven years, and it offered me a regular respite from the world of touch-based operating systems—menus, windows, and processes, oh my. It had an eleven year run, and its users loved it. 🫗

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Game Porting Toolkit analysis by Digital Foundry suggests the M1 Max is in line with a GTX 1060 or RTX 2060 from 4-7 years ago. This represents what a game dev who does the absolute minimum will get, which is... not great. Supposedly the 1.0.2 update improved performance not reflected here. youtube.com/watch?v=jTsc_UvlT3

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There was a time in the last few decades where I would have held my emotions in check until after I’d read the opinions. I believe in the rule of law, after all. But this current court has been so blatantly obvious in its political agenda that I no longer can maintain the suspension of disbelief required to read the majority’s opinion as anything else other than a post-hoc attempt to rationalize a specific ideological objective.

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SCOTUS is on a roll.

In addition to continuing to treat poor students as piggy banks, they also decided that web creatives can deny services to LGBTQIA customers.

This case should never even have been granted cert: it’s a fake case with imaginary facts—the plaintiff never even had a queer customer.

Does this mean a web host might soon make the same argument for why it can’t host a queer website? I’m sure we’ll find out.

usatoday.com/story/news/politi

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The sheer willful blindness of this latest SCOTUS ruling … 🤥

Ignoring race in college admissions helps no one, and only serves to further entrench the status quo. (Spoiler: the status quo is _not_ racial equality).

wsj.com/articles/supreme-court

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Sigh. Half a dozen sirs and misters on my way to the office, and then the discovery that SCOTUS has finally trashed affirmative action.

Today might be one of those days where I spend a lot of time with my feelings.

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The ambiguity of the term “gender-affirming care” has already been leveraged for panic (with kids, gender-affirming care is a therapist), but Fox won’t accept even beneficial ambiguity when straight out lies will work panic better. 😩

them.us/story/fox-news-is-alte

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Hanneke

Look I don't know who needs to hear this but it's a lot of people: putting a gray and white chequerboard pattern behind your image doesn't make it transparent.

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Pocket surfaced this brief interview with Emily Short for me this morning. nme.com/features/gaming-featur

I’m such a mega-huge nerd fan of hers. 🥰 Her procedurally generated guidebook, Annals of the Parrigues, was a huge inspiration to a chat-as-game project I was working on five years ago (and would still like to get back to). It’s so much fun to see the her here, fashion-photography style.

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"Emily Short is an incredible badass and here are some glamour shots of her in a fierce Baba Yaga suit" should be an article in every rock magazine tbh, she's worked so hard & I'm so fuckin proud of her

nme.com/features/gaming-featur

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I was pretty disappointed when @bass_rock told me that adding new and different types of timelines looks to be a pain. That seems like an obvious point for extensibility.

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I think there’s a lot that be done to address the user-facing impact of these issues at the client level through thoughtful UX (especially multi-modal interfaces). Onboarding and discovery, in particular, are so bad out of the box that almost any improvements will be meaningful improvements.

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The closest one can get to the benefits of a true nomadic mastodon identity is to spin up a single-user instance. I think this is funny.

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Of course, these are all social graph problems at heart. Path—my all time favorite social network—was all ablut tiny communities of besties and/or families; LinkedIn is self-selecting professional relationships (effectively instance-based); Facebook and Instagram are basically just the whole of humanity, a few of which you’ve favorited; Google Plus (as well as I remember it), was very forward about allowing you to create different “circles,” but we all balked at the overhead of it all.

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So, obviously, just don’t do large instances at all, right? But then we’re back to the discoverability, administrative, and operational problems. (All of which can be pitched as features, if you look at them from the right angle).

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Also, caching is a _thing_, if you want to grow a large instance.

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