438 posts tagged ‘Technology’
Atlassian Acquires Loom
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Atlassian (via Hacker News): Loom is an asynchronous (async) video messaging tool that helps users communicate through instantly shareable videos. Today, almost 5 million Loom videos are created every month by their 200,000 passionate customers. […] As Atlassian consolidates Loom into its platform, engineers will soon be able to visually log issues in Jira, leaders […]
Relative Time Labels
Nikita Prokopov: Why is nobody excited about these “yesterday”/“2 days ago”/“a week ago” labels?Because they pretend to speak human language, but they actually don’t. For a human, yesterday is “at the day before”, “between 0am..11:59pm the day before today”.No human uses “less that 24 hours” as the definition of “yesterday”. Computers, unfortunately, do. Add here […]
iPhone SE 4 Rumors
Marko Zivkovic: The iPhone SE 4, known internally under the codename Ghost, is expected to receive a new design derived almost entirely from the base model iPhone 14.[…]As far as the chassis is concerned, two major changes are expected – an Action button and a USB-C port.[…]As for the back of the device, the next […]
Kaleidoscope 4.2
Christopher Atlan (tweet): In the window title bar you’ll see a new element that gives you more detail about the task. You’ll see how many conflicts you still need to resolve in that file.[…]The window has a new area between the title bar and the Path Bar. We call it Context Shelf. […] In the […]
FCC Plans to Reinstate Network Neutrality
Jess Weatherbed (Hacker News): The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced plans to reinstate landmark net neutrality rules meant to guarantee fair access to the internet and its information, five years after they were repealed by then-president Donald Trump in 2018.Previous net neutrality rules adopted in 2015 classified broadband service under public utility rules […]
No Counter-Strike 2 for Mac
Tim Hardwick (Hacker News): Valve on Monday said it has no plans for a macOS version of the recently released game Counter-Strike 2, the follow-up title replacing the hugely popular FPS Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.[…]Last month’s release of Counter-Strike 2 forced a 26GB update for everyone with CS:GO, including Mac users, but after installation those on […]
Burger King’s Botched Apostrophe Curling
John Gruber: The various “smart quotes” algorithms you get while typing aren’t smart enough to make this contextual distinction — even very good ones — so you need to do it by hand. Here’s how to type them manually[…] Mac Windows Linux Open single quote: ‘ Option-] Alt-0-1-4-5 Use ASCII Close single quote: ’ Shift-Option-] Alt-0-1-4-6 Use ASCII Open […]
Dischler Testimony on AdWords Fraud
Adi Robertson: As the second week of the US v. Google antitrust trial gets underway, the Department of Justice is focusing on the real moneymaker behind Google Search: ads. It alleges that Google’s dominance lets it raise prices for advertisers with few repercussions — a claim backed up by Google ads executive Jerry Dischler on […]