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Google Maps' Moat Is Evaporating
The views expressed in this newsletter are solely my own, and do not represent the views of my employer.
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The Fraying of the US Global Currency Reserve System
Published December 2, 2020 Since autumn of 2019, I’ve been bearish on the dollar, meaning I have a longish-term outlook towards a weaker dollar. This view began forming when the Federal Reserve cut interest rates in summer 2019, and then the view solidified with a catalyst after an overnight repo rate spike in…
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Systems design explains the world: volume 1
"Systems design" is a branch of study that tries to find universal architectural patterns that are valid across disciplines. You might thin...
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APIs All the Way Down
Going down the API-First Ecosystem Rabbit Hole with Shopify, Stripe, Twilio, and more
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Apple Silicon M1 Die-Shots
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Lawyers automate this, so why don't airlines?
My working title for this blog post was “Why I’ll Never Fly With easyJet Again”, but that was far too clickbaity. Also it’s probably worth prefixing this post with two things. The first being the caveat that whether or not i ever fly with easyJet again is immaterial to their business, given that the model of budget…
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Figma: The product design team’s process
A look at the meetings, rituals, and exercises our product design team relies on to stay connected and efficient.
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Trading Time for Money
Paying someone else to do your work isn't such a great deal, and you should probably learn to do it yourself.
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The impact of Apple Silicon Macs on Broadway
Apple Silicon changes everything for Broadway electronic music designers. The new M1 Mac mini is capable of running high-end sample libraries and virtual instruments in a stable manner, and it's only going to get better with M2, M3, and M4-series chips in the future.
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Price increase on .io on January 21, 2021
The registry Top Level Domain Registry – Internet Computer Bureau Ltd, has notified Gandi that starting January 1, 2021 at 00:00 UTC (December 31 at 4:00 PM Pacific), the registration price for .io domain names will be increasing.
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How We Saved Dot Org
If you come at the nonprofit sector, you’d best not miss.Nonprofits and NGOs around the world were stunned last November when the Internet Society (ISOC) announced that it had agreed to sell the Public Interest Registry—the organization that manages the .ORG top-level domain (TLD)—to private equity...
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Going All in on the Mac App Store
Why I stopped selling Unbound directly via the web site.
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Telegram Voice Chats
Today, Telegram groups get an entire new dimension with Voice Chats – persistent conference calls that members can join and leave as they please. Our 12th update in 2020 brings them to you just in time for remote Christmas carols.
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Google Play rejected Tor Browser update with security fixes
Tor Browser 10.0.7 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory.
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Great Hacker != Great Hire (2004)
I thoroughly enjoyed reading Paul Graham's recent essay Great Hackers . His sermon is well-written, and I assume it played very well when he preached it to the choir at OSCON .
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Paper about Herbalife-related patient death removed after legal threats
A paper describing the death of a young woman trying to lose weight by consuming Herbalife® products has been withdrawn after the company threatened to sue the journal.
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Crime Shouldn't Pay: Why Big Tech Executives Should Face Jail
Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai need to be indicted.
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Building the Middle Class of the Creator Economy
The American Dream exists, but what is the reality?
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Operation Elop: The final years of Nokia’s mobile phones (2017)
The final years of Nokia’s mobile phones
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Facebook: Free as in Bullshit
This whole ad reads more like an ad *for* Apple’s privacy initiatives than against.
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AWS Joins the Blender Development Fund
Today Blender Foundation announced that AWS has joined the Blender Development Fund as a Patron Member to support continued core development and innovation for Blender.
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Brian Chesky on Ron Conway
A message from Airbnb Co-Founder and CEO Brian Chesky.
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Selling a Tiny Project
How I sold my tiny online store builder One Item Store, and how I think anyone can sell their tiny projects online.
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It took two days to develop Moderna’s vaccine
As the first crop of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines are being rolled out, we can start to see the light at the end of this pandemic tunnel. Still, in the US alone there will probably be another 200,000 deaths before we reach herd immunity. Further, as fast as this vaccine development and deployment was, it's not clear
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I Have Resigned from the Google AMP Advisory Committee
As per the AMP AC charter, I have resigned with immediate effect. As I was a non-corporate representative, I will not be nominating a replacement. I have loved working with the AC. They are a team of brilliant individuals who are all committed to trying to make AMP better, and I'm sorry to leave them. I've been a…