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Jason Kottke

Billie Eilish’s Tiny Desk Concert

During the pandemic, Billie Eilish did a Tiny Desk Concert at home amidst a very faithful recreation of the NPR office. Last week, Eilish played a proper set at the actual office. From the video’s description: Saudade is a Portuguese word that can be roughly defined as a...

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Jason Kottke

“Americans spend more years being unhealthy than people in any other country.”...

“Americans spend more years being unhealthy than people in any other country.” Among high income countries, the US has the highest rates of adults with multiple chronic conditions, shortest life expectancy at birth, highest rate of avoidable deaths, etc.

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John Gruber

Last Call for This Batch of DF T-Shirts and Hoodies

store.daringfireball.net/

Photo of a Daring Fireball logo t-shirt.

Update: The store is now closed. My sincere thanks to everyone who’s bought one (or in many cases, more than one).

Original post: Unsurprisingly given that I went a few years without selling DF-branded shirts, while I procrastinated on launching a modernized new store (long story short: Shopify is a killer platform — the new store now supports everything from Apple Pay to order tracking), response to this round of classic logo apparel has been great. Orders from last week started going out over the weekend, and hundreds more are shipping today.

It’s too late now to get an order in for Christmas, no matter where you live, but it’s not too late to place an order from this batch of shirts and hoodies. But, we’ll probably close the store to new orders tomorrow (Tuesday), so don’t wait.

Link: store.daringfireball.net/

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Jason Kottke

Isle of Tune: a web-based game where you build streetscapes that play...

Isle of Tune: a web-based game where you build streetscapes that play music when a car is driven on them — trees, house, and light poles all make different sounds. Big Star Guitar vibes.

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Jason Kottke

From an old version of the Wikipedia page for Warren G and...

From an old version of the Wikipedia page for Warren G and Nate Dogg’s Regulate, an extremely dry synopsis of the song. “Warren, unaware that Nate is surreptitiously observing the scene unfold, is in disbelief that he is being robbed.”

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Jason Kottke

Kottke Comments, Now With Faves

Hello, everyone. I just launched a few new features related to the comments here on kottke.org: 1. The ability to fave comments. This feature has been in test mode for the past few months, and I’m happy it’s finally getting a wider release. Only kottke.org members can fave ...

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Phase Change

Even when you try to make nice, smooth ice cubes in a freezer, sometimes one of them will shoot out a random ice spike, which physicists ascribe to kiki conservation.

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🔗 September 2023 – Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal

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Another one!

Photos from the hospital, Zoe's birthday, and a fat cat.

Daniel Pietzsch’s Photo Journal

September 2023

Photos from the hospital, Zoe's birthday, and a fat cat. (23 photos)

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John Gruber

CoverSutra Is Back

sophiestication.com/CoverSutra/?utm_source=df&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=df-sponsorship-dec2024

Another week with another outstanding indie developer whom I’m delighted to thank for sponsoring DF. This week, it’s Sophiestication Software promoting the return of CoverSutra — a previous hit from the “delicious” era of Mac apps that is now back and better than ever. Afte...

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John Gruber

Sponsorship Openings at Daring Fireball, End-of-Year and Q1 2025 Edition

daringfireball.net/feeds/sponsors/

After being sold out for months, the upcoming sponsorship schedule at DF is wide open at the moment — including the final week of the year. I know sponsors are sometimes hesitant to book weeks around major holidays, but, well, Daring Fireball is never “closed”. And traffic t...

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John Gruber

★ On the Accountability of Unnamed Public Relations Spokespeople

Robby Soave, writing at Reason, “Pete Hegseth’s Acceptance to West Point Is a Story”: Here’s what happened. On Wednesday, Hegseth posted on X that ProPublica — which he described as a “Left Wing hack group” — was planning to publish a bombshell report contradicting Hegse...

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Jason Kottke

Once again, The 2024 Kottke Holiday Gift Guide. If you’re shopping online,...

Once again, The 2024 Kottke Holiday Gift Guide. If you’re shopping online, especially from smaller retailers, getting your order in this weekend is probably a good idea for delivery before Xmas or the first day of Hanukkah.

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John Gruber

iGeneration Reports Apple Will Stop Selling Lightning-Port iPhones in the EU This Month

macrumors.com/2024/12/13/iphone-14-and-iphone-se-eu-report/

Joe Rossignol, MacRumors: Apple plans to stop selling the iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus, and third-generation iPhone SE in European Union countries later this month, to comply with a regulation that will soon require newly-sold smartphones with wired charging to be equipped ...

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John Gruber

MarkItDown: Python Tool for Converting Files and Office Documents to Markdown

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Nifty new convert-to-Markdown library from a small indie development shop named Microsoft: The MarkItDown library is a utility tool for converting various files to Markdown (e.g., for indexing, text analysis, etc.) It presently supports: PDF (.pdf) PowerPoint (.pptx) ...

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John Gruber

What’s New in MacOS 15.2 Sequoia

9to5mac.com/2024/12/11/whats-new-in-macos-15-2-here-are-apples-full-release-notes/

Ryan Christoffel, also at 9to5Mac: There are two key features that are part of iOS 18.2, but aren’t yet ready for the Mac: Genmoji Mail app redesign Genmoji are an especially unfortunate omission, as they’re available on both iPhone and iPad with iOS and iPadOS 18.2....

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John Gruber

What’s New in iOS 18.2

9to5mac.com/2024/12/11/ios-18-2-release-date-new-features/

Chance Miller has a good rundown for 9to5Mac:

The update includes major new Apple Intelligence features, upgrades to the Camera Control on iPhone 16, a redesign for the Mail app, and much more.

The new Apple Intelligence features lead the list, and certainly lead Apple’s marketing, but there’s quite a bit else new in 18.2 too.

Link: 9to5mac.com/2024/12/11/ios-18-2-release-date-new-features/

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John Gruber

★ Federico Viticci on Apple Intelligence, With ChatGPT, as a Breakthrough Automation Tool

Federico Viticci, writing at MacStories “Apple Intelligence in iOS 18.2: A Deep Dive into Working with Siri and ChatGPT, Together”: In testing the updated Writing Tools with ChatGPT integration, I’ve run into some limitations that I will cover below, but I also had two v...

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Aaron Cohen

Go Back Home, Your Mother Made You Waffles

Adam Sharp has curated the most flamboyant ways to tell someone to pound sand in other languages, and it’s delightful. There’s “go ski into a spruce” from Finland, in Brazil you tell someone to “go pick little coconuts,” while in Poland you say “go to the park and paint the ...

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Jason Kottke

“What would happen if you spent a nanosecond on the surface of...

What would happen if you spent a nanosecond on the surface of the sun? Would it warm you up, burn you to a cinder, or do nothing at all?”

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