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meh.com/?utm_source=daringfireball&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fuckingamazon
I sold Woot to Amazon and they made it shitty. So I quit. Then I got bored.
I started A Mediocre Corporation with a few others from Woot. We just launched a classic daily deal site — only one thing for sale each day. Meh.
Oh, and since you seem to be into RSS, we put one together just for you, at meh.com/deals.rss. Of course you can also just go to meh.com.
Link: meh.com/?utm_source=daringfireball&utm_medium=rss&utm…
lawfaremedia.org/article/trump's-tiktok-executive-order-and-the-limits-of-executive-non-enforcement
developer.apple.com/documentation/ios-ipados-release-notes/ios-ipados-18_3-release-notes
npr.org/2025/01/20/nx-s1-5268701/trump-executive-order-tiktok-ban
support.apple.com/en-us/121596?cid=mc-ols-bytedance-article_121596-os_ui-12132024
Good takes on some unpleasant current events, and one of the best brief eulogies for Jimmy Carter I’ve heard.
theverge.com/2025/1/19/24347358/instagram-edits-capcut-video-app-tiktok-ban
Interesting selection of Martin Luther King Jr. quotes they’ve chosen for the homepage (PDF archive for posterity):
- “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically.”
- “You must decide to speak for yourself; nobody else can speak for you.”
- “We cannot preserve self without being concerned about preserving other selves.”
Read into those quotes what you will, given today’s other national significance. I think there’s an implied message here, but it’s subtle. I’ll pick a different quote from King, one that I believe better speaks to the current moment:
“The great majority of Americans are suspended between these opposing attitudes. They are uneasy with injustice but unwilling yet to pay a significant price to eradicate it.”
Link: apple.com/
workos.com/radar?utm_source=daringfireball&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=q12025
My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring last week at DF. Does your app get fake signups, throwaway emails, or users abusing your free tier? Or worse, bots attacks and brute force attempts?
WorkOS Radar can block all this and more. Their simple API gives you advanced device fingerprinting that can detect bad actors, bots, and suspicious behavior.
Your users trust you. Keep it that way. Check out WorkOS Radar today.
Link: workos.com/radar?utm_source=daringfireball&utm_medium=RSS…
theverge.com/2025/1/15/24344207/microsoft-bing-search-results-google-design-change-reversed
macrumors.com/2025/01/13/apple-smart-home-hub-launch-possibly-delayed/
Joanna Stern, in her weekly Tech Things newsletter for the WSJ:
Despite what my iPhone’s frequent notification summaries report, my husband isn’t messy, he isn’t sad and he definitely didn’t take out the garbage — because, again, I don’t have one. Wife? Yes. Husband? No.
As part of Apple Intelligence, the company rolled out these AI-powered summaries. Instead of scrolling through a mountain of missed alerts, you get little condensed summaries, grouped by app. Great concept, not quite “intelligent” execution.
techcrunch.com/2025/01/17/google-begins-requiring-javascript-for-google-search/
Parker Ortolani works near Grand Central and wrote a great post about the in-character Severance experience on Wednesday, replete with photos, both early in the day when the diorama was largely empty, and later in the day, when it was swarmed with fans and general onlookers because the actors and director Ben Stiller were there. Blogging at its best.
polygon.com/nintendo-switch-2/509821/nintendo-switch-2-joy-con-mouse-rumor-confirmed
Kyle Maclachlan, remembering his friend and longtime collaborator David Lynch, on Instagram:
What I saw in him was an enigmatic and intuitive man with a creative ocean bursting forth inside of him. He was in touch with something the rest of us wish we could get to.
Our friendship blossomed on Blue Velvet and then Twin Peaks and I always found him to be the most authentically alive person I’d ever met.
David was in tune with the universe and his own imagination on a level that seemed to be the best version of human. He was not interested in answers because he understood that questions are the drive that make us who we are. They are our breath.
Link: instagram.com/p/DE5pC5RyH29/?igsh=Mzc3ZTVlOWMwZA%3D%3D
Another fun promo for Severance season 2.
And a promo on Apple’s homepage featuring a computer made by another company. And a free in-universe book, The Lexington Letters, at Apple Books. (Update: Ah, the book came out in March 2022, as part of season 1. Still: fun! Apple Books does not make the publication date prominent.)
Link: severanceballoon.com/
rogerebert.com/tributes/have-a-great-day-david-lynch-1946-2025
defector.com/bob-uecker-was-just-the-best?giftLink=4e90dd98613fd68a7ca54975700e1c5a
