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Text • Dr. Werner Vogels

A little bit uncomfortable

Fear is actually a pretty good signal that you are pushing into the unknown, that real growth doesn’t happen without a bit of that associated discomfort, and that it’s worth becoming aware when it happens. Aware enough to consider actually leaning into it.

Open Channels FM Podcast Network
Text • Katie Keith

Relaunching Do the Woo Podcast for the WooCommerce Ecosystem

The Do the Woo podcast is relaunching as a dedicated platform for the WooCommerce community, focusing on unique challenges and innovations, hosted by James Kemp and Katie Keith.

Open Channels FM Podcast Network
Text • Bob Dunn

A Reboot of Do the Woo Podcast

The "Do the Woo" podcast is returning, focusing on WooCommerce insights, featuring industry leaders. It will include lively discussions, audience Q&As, and monthly episodes with hosts James Kemp and Katie Keith.

WIRED
Text • Nena Farrell

Aura Frame Sale (2025): From Aura Carver to Aura Ink

Aura’s digital photo frames outshine the competition left and right, and you can score them on sale this holiday season.

WIRED
Text • Katie Drummond

AWS CEO Matt Garman Doesn’t Think AI Should Replace Junior Devs

The head of Amazon Web Services has big plans to offer AI tools to businesses, but says that replacing coders with AI is “a non-starter for anyone who’s trying to build a long-term company.”

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Inside the Tech Company Powering Trump’s Most Controversial Policies

Warning: This episode contains strong language. Palantir, a data analysis and technology company, has secured federal contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars during President Trump’s second presidency, including to develop software to help Immigration and Customs Enf...

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Humiliates Trump over Reiner as MAGA Cracks Up

President Trump offered a disgusting response to the horrific death of Rob Reiner and his wife, narcissistically insisting they’d died of “Trump Derangement Syndrome” while delusionally claiming world-historical successes for himself. What surprised us was MAG...

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Text • Manuel Moreale

Age-gating the web

With the growing trend of countries proposing laws to restrict access to the web based on users’ age, I feel compelled to say two things: A) No, age-gating social media is not going to kill what’s left of the internet. If you think “the internet” = “social media sites,” then...

WIRED
Text • Adrienne So

Hoka Coupon Codes: 10% Off | December 2025

Enjoy free expedited shipping or 10% off Hoka discount codes, plus save up to 30% with the best discounts this month.

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Jumping Frog Radius

Earth's r_jf is approximately 1.5 light-days, leading to general relativity's successful prediction that all the frogs in the Solar System should be found collected on the surface of the Earth.

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Watched: Mushka. Andreas Deja helping keep hand-drawn animation alive, purposefully showing the pencil lines in the age of AI and computer-generated everything. 🍿

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[Sponsor] Finalist Daily Planner for iOS

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Finalist is an iOS planner rooted in paper. Originally an index card system, it grew into a love letter to paper planners. You know the kind, leather folders with colored tabs and translucent dividers.

Unlike those old binders, Finalist fills itself with your calendars, reminders and weather forecast. Minimalist? Maybe not, but it’s become a UI playground designed to inspire, and looks great on iPad and Mac too.

Like the gorgeous new Year Planner for roughing in plans with the Highlighter (“intention paintbrush”).

iOS has tons of cool productivity apps. Finalist is a different take, and it might just end up in your dock.

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Bard frog #Dota2

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Meta's scam problem may trigger a legal reckoning

Meta's scam problem may trigger a legal reckoning

A fresh investigation reveals the scope of Meta's problem in China. Will a pending court case force the company to crack down — or destroy Section 230?

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Text • John Gruber

‘A Brief History of Times New Roman’

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One more from Matthew Butterick, from his Typography for Lawyers, and a good pairing with Mark Simonson’s “The Scourge of Arial”: Yet it’s an open question whether its longevity is attributable to its quality or merely its ubiquity. Helvetica still inspires enough affect...

WIRED
Text • Maxwell Zeff

OpenAI’s Chief Communications Officer Is Leaving the Company

Hannah Wong told staff she is moving on to her “next chapter.” The company will be running an executive search to find a replacement, according to a memo.

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Cloudflare CMS Stats

Cloudflare released their Radar report for 2025, one fun stat was they analyzed the top 5,000 domains, and it had some interesting results for website technologies. Open Source tech came in at 47% for WordPress and 4.7% for Drupal, which wins the majority! Then in proprietary there was Adobe at 16%, Contentful at 8%, Shopify … Continue reading Cloudflare CMS Stats →

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A Note on Current SMS Marketing Practices

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Back on November 28, I bought a new cap from New Era’s web store. They offered a discount of some sort if I gave them a phone number and permitted them to send me marketing messages. That got me curious about what they’d do with my number, and it was a 50-some-dollar cap, so...

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I asked ChatGPT: "Has anyone ported QuickDraw to SVG in the form of something you can include in a browser-based JavaScript app?" No. I wish the answer was yes, so I could create UIs that are at least as good as the stuff we did in the 1980s on the Mac, inside a web browser. I keep learning new ways simple things are impossible in CSS. Clipping for example, is torture.

Bluesky
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Find Your Friends on Bluesky

We're introducing Find Friends — a contact import feature that makes it easy to find people you know on Bluesky without compromising your privacy.