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By John Gruber
apple.com/newsroom/2024/07/apple-maps-on-the-web-launches-in-beta/
about.fb.com/news/2024/07/open-source-ai-is-the-path-forward/
404media.co/google-is-the-only-search-engine-that-works-on-reddit-now-thanks-to-ai-deal/
Daring Fireball
• Daring Fireball Department of Commerce
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.
So while I don’t think it’s good news that Apple is partnering with Taboola, I don’t expect it to make any discernible difference in the ad quality or frequency.
developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/
theverge.com/2024/7/19/24201717/windows-bsod-crowdstrike-outage-issue
I don’t post many affiliate links but here’s a great one: Amazon has second-gen AirPods Pro for just $169 for Prime Day, discounted a full third from the usual price of $249. AirPods Pro are not just my favorite earbuds ever, they’re one of my favorite products ever, full stop. Buy through this link and I’ll get rich.
SMS wasn’t dying, but it was slowly fading away, and should have been left for things like automated “your table is ready” notifications from restaurants. RCS is just going to give carrier-based messaging new legs that it shouldn’t have gotten.
Daring Fireball
• Daring Fireball Department of Commerce
workos.com/?utm_source=daringfireball&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=q12024
With WorkOS you can start selling to enterprises with just a few lines of code. It provides a complete User Management solution along with SSO, SCIM, and FGA. The APIs are modular and easy-to-use, allowing integrations to be completed 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.
One of the all-time great talk show guests.
apple.com/newsroom/2024/07/apple-introduces-homepod-mini-in-midnight/
macrumors.com/2024/07/15/apple-approves-first-retro-pc-emulator-ios/
Make them all say, as Trump himself did after a school shooting massacre in Iowa this year, that we “have to get over it, we have to move forward.”
krebsonsecurity.com/2024/07/hackers-steal-phone-sms-records-for-nearly-all-att-customers/
cnn.com/2024/07/12/business/att-customers-massive-breach/index.html
I’ve been a big fan of Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro since his term as our attorney general. He was absolutely fantastic in the aftermath of the 2020 election, when Trump attempted to steal Pennsylvania.
But as of this week he might be my favorite politician in the entire country. He accomplished what I had long ago given up hope of ever seeing: replacing PA’s fugly-as-sin license plates with a new design that’s among the best I’ve ever seen. Good typography, great colors, and a new slogan and icon that exemplify Pennsylvania’s role as the birthplace of the longest-standing democracy the world has ever seen: the Liberty Bell.
Bravo.
(Next job: Apply this same design language to our god-awful driver’s licenses.)
Update: Design credit for both the new plates and welcome signage goes to Robyn Kanner.
