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John Gruber

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linkhttps://daringfireball.net calendar_today01-12-2006 02:52:40

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President Of Physical Media(@PhysicalMedia_) 's Twitter Profile Photo

James Cameron says Stanley Kubrick forced him to watch ‘True Lies’ scene by Scene

'So I went to see this reclusive guy knocking around this big house and he just totally wanted to know how True Lies was made. He had a print of it on his KEM down in his basement, and made me sit…

James Cameron says Stanley Kubrick forced him to watch ‘True Lies’ scene by Scene 'So I went to see this reclusive guy knocking around this big house and he just totally wanted to know how True Lies was made. He had a print of it on his KEM down in his basement, and made me sit…
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I’m voting yes, because I believe in mercy and second chances, but I’m a little worried that someone hacked ’s Instagram account: 😃

instagram.com/p/C6Mr8EWJyaA/

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Andy Allen(@asallen) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We're 4 years in with widgets and they're still so obtuse to add that every app has to draw instructions for you.

iOS18 wish list: Make widgets first-class

We're 4 years in with widgets and they're still so obtuse to add that every app has to draw instructions for you. iOS18 wish list: Make widgets first-class
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Alex Sherman(@sherman4949) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Without legacy media, people just post unclear charts without data sources to make sweeping arguments with no risk of accountability or repercussions.

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Senator John Fetterman(@SenFettermanPA) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I don't know who needs to hear this, but blocking a bridge or berating folks in Starbucks isn't righteous, it just makes you an asshole.

Demand Hamas to send every hostage back home and surrender.

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Ben Thompson(@benthompson) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Marques’ reach is a function of telling the truth. He didn’t always have 18 million subscribers, but he had his integrity from the beginning. Expecting him to abandon that is the only thing that is “distasteful, almost unethical”.

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Adam Lisagor(@adamlisagor) 's Twitter Profile Photo

For me, this is the killer app of Vision Pro and the holy grail of our Television app.

New version has SharePlay so you can watch TV with your friends. Here’s me sharing one of my favorite moments of recorded media with my homie Beamer.

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John Gruber(@gruber) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If Trump were smart he’d make an Apprentice-style game show out of this. Make the VP candidates demean themselves performing stunts and kissing his feet on camera every week. Then at the end of each episode Trump fires one of them, tells them why he doesn’t like them, and they…

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John Nack(@jnack) 's Twitter Profile Photo

John Gruber David Pierce I'm now trying to get various AIs to make me 'a concert poster for a pop diva who looks a lot like Beyoncé. Her name is 'beeyonk-backslash-you-zero-zero-ee-nine.'' Thanks, Ideogram + @humane. 😛

@gruber @pierce I'm now trying to get various AIs to make me 'a concert poster for a pop diva who looks a lot like Beyoncé. Her name is 'beeyonk-backslash-you-zero-zero-ee-nine.'' Thanks, @ideogram_ai + @humane. 😛
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David Barnard(@drbarnard) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New RevenueCat chart just dropped. It’s called New Trials and allows all sorts of segmentation.

Here’s that chart for Weather Up showing the original launch in January where I was A/B testing the Monthly plan being the default vs the Annual plan. And then a month later when

New @RevenueCat chart just dropped. It’s called New Trials and allows all sorts of segmentation. Here’s that chart for @Weather_Up_ showing the original launch in January where I was A/B testing the Monthly plan being the default vs the Annual plan. And then a month later when
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Steven Sinofsky(@stevesi) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The BS in DOJ's Apple case is infuriating. If you were to read the paragraph below you might believe Steve Jobs is talking about something that happened and that Microsoft had displayed 'dirty tactics' in some specific way.

In fact this was in the midst of difficult negotiations…

The BS in DOJ's Apple case is infuriating. If you were to read the paragraph below you might believe Steve Jobs is talking about something that happened and that Microsoft had displayed 'dirty tactics' in some specific way. In fact this was in the midst of difficult negotiations…
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Kay Jebelli 🇺🇦(@KayJebelli) 's Twitter Profile Photo

it's pretty incredible if you take a step back, in what other industry do entire regulatory frameworks pop up to address a dispute between different businesses over the question of 'why can't I have gratuitous access to this infrastructure, at zero cost to myself?'

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