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Texas is about to gerrymander five new house seats, and California is ready to retaliate. Gov. Gavin Newsom says that his state will also redraw its congressional maps to create five new districts, effectively fighting fire with fire. Laurel Rosenhall, who covers California’...

The provisionally named S/2025 U1 is so small it had gone unnoticed by probes and telescopes for the past 40 years.

Well, you would begin with Out of Office auto reply as a service. I’m on my hols this week so this is on my mind, and this is a free idea for anyone looking for a startup to keep them out of trouble. Out of Office is one of those weird email features that (a) has hyper usage...

On Thursday, JD Vance delivered a speech designed to reset the political battle over President Trump’s abysmally unpopular budget bill. But Vance’s speech devolved into a series of rants that seemed to ape Trump’s style. Vance lied about the bill’s h...

Gavin Newsom is taking the fight to Trump - by being Trumpy on social media. Why Joe thinks it can be really effective - and why Democrats shouldn't get bent out of shape about it. Also: You've probably heard about record numbers of Americans "ashamed" Trump is president - but why is it so much worse for Trump under the hood? Just how bad is the economic situation for Trump and MAGA? Plus, a listener question we've been excited to get to for a while...Track Trump's approval and look at some of the numbers Joe and Alex use every week here: https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approval-tracker
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We can build UI components with accessibility in mind. We can also document accessibility specifics alongside them, or review them for obvious barriers during development. All helpful and recommended. What about claiming conformance? In this post, I'll talk about how WCAG technically doesn't allow for that, and why I believe WCAG is right.

Fox (capitalization verbatim): Fox Corporation today announced the official launch of FOX One, a bold new streaming service that brings together the full portfolio of FOX’s News, Sports and Entertainment branded content — all in one place, both live and on demand. Avail...

Benjamin Mayo, 9to5Mac: Apple today announced that the monthly price of Apple TV+ is rising in the United States and some international markets. From today, the monthly subscription will cost $12.99, up from $9.99. Existing subscribers will see the price change 30 days ...

Finished reading: The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu. Very different than most modern fantasy, in pace and character viewpoints. Loved it. Truly epic. 📚

What I gave up, what I kept, and what's new. PLUS: How I'm using AI

Sean Hollister, reporting for The Verge back in February: Two weeks ago, we exclusively reported Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s remarks on how many pairs of Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses the company had recently sold and might theoretically sell: 1 million pairs in 2024, with t...

We got a nice rain this afternoon, the perfect test for the new gutters. Still landscaping and drainage to do, but this was a much-needed house upgrade.

New video game, just out:

Herdling is a brand new adventure from Okomotive, creators of the atmospheric and acclaimed FAR games, and Panic, publishers of Firewatch.

Looks absolutely beautiful. Painterly. Darth says it’s good.

Available now for Steam, PlayStation 5, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, and Epic Games Store. Not (yet?) in the Mac App Store — not because of any hassles regarding the App Store, but because there’s not (yet?) a Mac port of the game, period.

A new Mississippi law requires us to block full access to Bluesky unless all users complete age checks. We have concerns about this law’s implementation.

Thanks to Manu for featuring me on his series People & Blogs. I wrote a bit about the history of this blog and how (and why) I write online…

Better API debugging and clearer error messages

Both are words published online, but the method changes the medium

The albums page on @birming’s photo blog is really nicely done. I’m assuming this uses separate Micro.blog pages and photo collections. Very cool because it gives the illusion of a photo albums feature that doesn’t really exist in the platform!

Perforce this week launched JRebel Enterprise, a new solution designed to eliminate one of Java development’s most persistent pain points:

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