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Daring Fireball Valid
• John Gruber

WorkOS

workos.com/?utm_source=daringfireball&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=q12024

My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring last week at Daring Fireball. WorkOS is a modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. Start selling to enterprise customers with just a few lines of code. Ship complex features like SSO and SCIM (pronounced skim) provisioning in minutes instead of months.

Today, some of the fastest growing startups are already powered by WorkOS, including Perplexity, Vercel, and Webflow.

For SaaS apps that care deeply about design and user experience, WorkOS is the perfect fit. From high-quality documentation to self-serve onboarding for your customers, it removes all the unnecessary complexity for your engineering team.

Link: workos.com/?utm_source=daringfireball&utm_medium=display…

Lex Fridman Podcast Updates instantly via WebSub

#437 – Jordan Jonas: Survival, Hunting, Siberia, God, and Winning Alone Season 6

02:56:33
Jordan Jonas is a wilderness survival expert, explorer, hunter, guide, and winner of Alone Season 6, a show in which the task is to survive alone in the arctic wilderness longer than anyone else. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest competitors in the history on...

Daring Fireball Valid
• John Gruber

Biden Drops Out of Reelection Bid, Fully Endorses Kamala Harris

x.com/JoeBiden/status/1815080881981190320

Joe Biden, in a letter to the nation (same post, on Instagram): It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your President. And while it has been my intention to seek reelection, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand d...

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• Jason Kottke

Watch 1969’s Apollo 11 Moon Landing “Live!”

55 years ago today, on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon and went for a little walk. For the 16th year in a row, you can watch the original CBS News coverage of Walter Cronkite reporting on the Moon landing and the first Moon walk on a smal...

kottke.org Valid
• Jason Kottke

If elected, will Trump end democracy? He Will Try. “How high do...

If elected, will Trump end democracy? He Will Try. “How high do his odds of success have to be before you treat this as a genuine emergency? Is a 20 percent chance of losing our democracy too low? Is 30?”

kottke.org Valid
• Jason Kottke

The FCC has voted to more closely regulate prison telecom services, a...

The FCC has voted to more closely regulate prison telecom services, a move that will significantly cut the exorbitant fees that families pay to communicate with incarcerated people.

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Daring Fireball Valid
• John Gruber

★ Apple Strikes Deal With Taboola to Sell Ads for Apple News

Sara Fischer, reporting this week for Axios: Ad tech giant Taboola has struck a deal with Apple to power native advertising within the Apple News and Apple Stocks apps, Taboola founder and CEO Adam Singolda told Axios. The deal provides new validation for Taboola’s busin...

kottke.org Valid
• Jason Kottke

Christina’s World, the Windows XP Wallpaper Version

a version of Christina's World by Andrew Wyeth done in MS Paint

Cat Graffam combined their love of art and old technology to create a mashup of Andrew Wyeth’s Christina’s World and the Windows XP wallpaper, using MS Paint and a mouse. You can watch how they did it in this video:

Prints of the finished product are available. (via waxy)

Tags: Andrew Wyeth · art · Cat Graffam · remix · video · Windows

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Daring Fireball Valid
• John Gruber

Google Is Shutting Down Its URL Shortener, Breaking All Links

developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/

Sumit Chandel and Eldhose Mathokkil Babu, writing for the Google Developers blog: In 2018, we announced the deprecation and transition of Google URL Shortener to Firebase Dynamic Links because of the changes we’ve seen in how people find content on the internet, and the ...

Daring Fireball Valid
• John Gruber

Meta Won’t Bring Future Multimodal AI Models to EU

axios.com/2024/07/17/meta-future-multimodal-ai-models-eu

Ina Fried, reporting for Axios: “We will release a multimodal Llama model over the coming months, but not in the EU due to the unpredictable nature of the European regulatory environment,” Meta said in a statement to Axios. Apple similarly said last month that it won’t ...

Daring Fireball Valid
• John Gruber

Bug With Widely-Deployed Security Tool CrowdStrike Is Crashing Windows, Causing Widespred Outages Across Many Industries

theverge.com/2024/7/19/24201717/windows-bsod-crowdstrike-outage-issue

Tom Warren, The Verge: Thousands of Windows machines are experiencing a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) issue at boot today, impacting banks, airlines, TV broadcasters, supermarkets, and many more businesses worldwide. A faulty update from cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike ...

kottke.org Valid
• Jason Kottke

I had forgotten that Donald Glover got the name Childish Gambino from...

I had forgotten that Donald Glover got the name Childish Gambino from a Wu-Tang name generator.

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kottke.org Valid
• Jason Kottke

No one knows exactly when Neil Armstrong first set foot on the...

No one knows exactly when Neil Armstrong first set foot on the Moon — and we’ll likely never know for sure. “It wasn’t like an Olympic swim race where touching the wall stops the timer.”

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kottke.org Valid
• Edith Zimmerman

Diary Comics, March 30 & April 1

Here are a couple from this past Eastertime. (Previously.) Tags: diary comics 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

kottke.org Valid
• Jason Kottke

The editors of The Lancet Microbe on the origins of Covid-19. “SARS-CoV-2...

The editors of The Lancet Microbe on the origins of Covid-19. “SARS-CoV-2 is a natural virus that found its way into humans through mundane contact with infected wildlife that went on to cause the most consequential pandemic for over a century.”

kottke.org Valid
• Jason Kottke

Who Goes Nazi?

In 1934, Dorothy Thompson became the first American journalist to be expelled from Nazi Germany for writing critically & unfavorably about the regime and its leader, Adolf Hitler: He is formless, almost faceless, a man whose countenance is a caricature, a man whose fram...

kottke.org Valid
• Jason Kottke

The action in Octavia Butler’s novel The Parable of the Sower begins...

The action in Octavia Butler’s novel The Parable of the Sower begins on July 20, 2024 — that’s tomorrow. “Beginning in 2024, when society in the United States has grown unstable due to climate change, growing wealth inequality, and corporate greed…”

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kottke.org Valid
• Jason Kottke

Deadpan comic icon Bob Newhart has died at age 94. I was...

Deadpan comic icon Bob Newhart has died at age 94. I was a weekly viewer of Newhart in the 80s and, I’m just now realizing, followed in the footsteps of the titular character in being an NYC writer who moves to VT. 🫠

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Radiolab Updates instantly via WebSub
• storytelling, olympics, badminton

Lose Lose

31:32
To celebrate the imminent start of the Summer Olympic Games in Paris, France we have an episode originally reported in 2016. No matter what sport you play, the object of the game is to win. And that’s hard enough to do. But we found a match where four top athletes had to do ...

The Rewatchables

‘Notting Hill’ With Juliet Litman and Amanda Dobbins

01:08:41

The Ringer’s Juliet Litman and Amanda Dobbins are just two girls recording a podcast asking you to listen as they talk about the 1999 rom-com ‘Notting Hill’ starring Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts. Producer: Craig Horlbeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices