Audacious by KQD

2020

WFH

Medium Testing New Visual Customization

On Having Full RSS Feeds

Google Spins the Wheel on What to Call Hangouts, Again

Mary Dash's Guide to Plain Language

2019

Susan Fowler’s Year in Review

Don’t Hide the Date

Treat Pain Points as Debt

Hierarchy of Product Team Needs

NetNewsWire 5.0 Released

Replying to Emails Like a CEO Takes the Pain Out of Writing Email

Genius Claims to Have Proof That Google Is Lifting Lyrics for Its Search Results

‘What I Learned Trying to Secure Congressional Campaigns’

Updated App Store Review Guidelines Prohibit Apps in Kids Category From Including Third-Party Ads or Analytics

Panic Announces Playdate, Their First Video Game System Set to Launch in 2020 for $149 With 12 Games That Automatically Release on a Weekly Basis

You’re Triggering Alexa More Often Than You Think

Jumbo Is Your Digital Privacy Assistant

‘Typography 2020: A Special Listicle for America’

The 3D Models That Will Help Rebuild Notre-Dame

Medium, Seven Years Later

The Long, Complicated, and Extremely Frustrating History of Medium

‘Letter Boxed’ by the New York Times

‘Can a 44-Year-Old Man Cut It in the Premier League?’

Proposed Changes to Chrome Would Hamper Ad Blockers

Twitter Begins Rolling Out ‘Lite’ Version of Website to Everyone

Netflix Says ‘Fortnite’ Is a Bigger Competitor Than HBO or Hulu

‘Signal v Noise’ Officially Exits Medium

Doist Switches From Medium to WordPress

Yuibco Releases Lightning Compatible Security Key for IPhone

GitHub Now Allows Free Accounts to Have Unlimited Private Repositories

TikTok’s ‘Lite’ App Downloaded 12 Million Times Since August

2018

‘Nobody Reads’

Microsoft Edge Is Coming to MacOS

The Dominance of Google Chrome

Half of All Phishing Sites Now Use HTTPs

Marvin Visions, the Variable Font

$130 Million Later, Medium CEO Ev Williams Looking to Raise More Money for Still Unprofitable Medium

Ohio First State to Accept Bitcoin for Tax Payments

Access by Hawkeye Labs Uses TrueDepth Camera to Navigate Webpages via Facial Expressions

WikiTribune Lays Off Editorial Staffers, Shifts Focus to Community Contributors

Amazon Updates Kindle to Support Custom Fonts

First Impressions of Project Stream, Google’s Video Game Streaming Service

Customers, Not Users

Wi-Fi Transitions to Version Numbers, With Wi-Fi 6 Coming Next Year

A Very Brief Explanation of How I Choose Between Buying a Physical Book or the Kindle Edition

60 Million Steam Players Have Connected Some Type of Controller

How to Write a Sentence

Path, the ‘Personal’ Social Network, to Shut Down Next Month

Telltale Games Hit With Massive Layoffs, Begins ‘Majority Studio Closure’

MacOS Tip: Disable Smart Zoom to Remove Menu Delay When Clicking or Tapping With Two Fingers

Google to Shut Down ‘Inbox by Gmail’ App and Website

Basecamp to Move Popular ‘Signal v Noise’ Blog Off Medium

Polygon Ditches Review Scores in Favor of ‘Recommends’ Labeling and Curated ‘Essentials’

Behavioral Biometrics Are a Cookie You Can’t Clear

Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool

Slack Leaves Medium for WordPress

1Password as a Digital Will

The Best Markdown Editor for IOS

Designing the Xbox Adaptive Controller‘s Accessible Packaging

Who Owns a Scientist‘s Mind?

‘Fortnite’ Is a Runaway Success

‘Let Companies Do Their Own PR, Even if This Comes at the Cost of Clicks’

Susan Fowler Rigetti Joins NYT Opinion as Technology Editor

Josh Ginter’s Visual HomePod Review

Nike’s $250 Running Shoes Might Actually Make You Faster

Messi Walks Better Than Most Players Run

‘Pocket-Run Pool’

IOS 12 Will Support All IOS 11 Compatible Devices

‘The Back of an Envelope’

‘This Is the Kind of App That Just About Anyone Could Benefit From Using’

Edit

Google ReCAPTCHAs Will Occasionally Accept Incorrect Answers Because Real Humans Make Mistakes

The UX of Hidden Game Mechanics

Microsoft Unveils Xbox Adaptive Controller

Medium Kills Off Custom Domains

Playing Chess Against Magnus Carlsen Leads to Predictable Outcome

Esports Are Giving America’s Malls an Extra Life

Designing the Next Billion-Dollar Color

The Best Text Editor for MacOS

Cloudflare Launches Privacy-First Consumer DNS Service

MacOS Gains External GPU Support

Instructions for Disabling Facebook’s Platform API Sharing

IKEA-Style Explanations of Popular Algorithms

Facebook’s Apology Tour Continues as Full Page Ads Appear in Major Newspapers

Dave Morin Kicks Around Creating a New, ‘Better’ Path

A Digital Protection Agency for the United States

Telltale Games Lived Long Enough to Become the Villain

HTTPS and the Secure Web

Strava Update Makes It Easier to Opt-Out of Aggregated Heatmaps

‘Alto’s Odyssey’ Now Available on IOS

Secure Messaging App Signal Launches ‘The Signal Foundation’ With $50 Million Investment From WhatsApp Co-Founder Brian Acton

Your ‘Lite’ App Should Be Your Only App

Chrome Enables Automatic Ad Filtering

Google Introduces AMP in Email Preview

Universities Create New Courses to Address the Ethics of Technology

Designing Apple’s Emoji

A ‘Walden’ for the YouTube Age

The Privacy We Give Away

Strava Global ‘Heatmap’ Highlights Military Bases

DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials

Baremetrics Leaves Medium and Returns to Self-Published Blog

Chemistry Lessons Come to ‘Minecraft’

Image of Screen That Led to Hawaii’s Mistaken Ballistic Missile Alert

The Ethical Ambiguities and Legal Complexities of a World Run by Machines We Know Little About

‘Regarding the Em Dash’

Start With Words

2017

AlphaZero Crushes the Game of Chess

Firefox UI Guidelines for Voice and Tone

‘Every Frame a Painting’ Ends

PR to English Translation for Selected Portions of EA’s Response to Backlash Over ‘Star Wars Battlefront II’ Microtransactions

Dissolvable Pain Reliever Film From University of Akron Could Help Fight Opioid Epidemic

Firefox Quantum

Apple’s Best Product Is Privacy

Airplane Mode’s ‘Dance Like You Mean It’, the World’s First Animoji Music Video

‘The Suffix That Tells the Story of Modern Science’

The NYT Is Now Available as a Tor Onion Service

Microsoft Stops Making Kinects, but the Tech Lives On

The FBI’s Fight With Encryption Continues

‘What Everybody Gets Wrong About Jekyll and Hyde’

Fixing Extremely Poor or Muffled Call Quality When Using AirPods and MacOS

Darbian Sets New ‘The Super Mario Bros.’ Speedrun World Record

Activision Patents Using Unbalanced Matchmaking to Promote In-Game Purchases

FIFA 18 vs. PES 2018

Advanced Protection by Google Helps Protect Users at Elevated Risk of Online Attack

‘How the United States Missed the World Cup, Minute by Minute’

Making Marvin Visions

NASA’s Cozmic Qwest

Fake ITunes Password Dialogs Look Exactly Like the Real Thing

Springboard Gridlock

Mario Was Punching Yoshi the Whole Time

Twitter Tries 280

Visions, a Literary Science Fiction Magazine

IOS 11: The Pixel Envy Review

‘All a Writer Needs Is Talent & Ink.’

The ‘Economic Model’ Is Corrupt

Meet Peter Bale, the Launch Editor of WikiTribune

‘Thoughts on the Nintendo Switch User Interface’

All Ads Are Equal, but Some Ads Are More Equal Than Others

H. Moser & Cie's Swiss Alp Watch Zzzz

IOS 11 Tightens Location Privacy, Displays Banner When Location Is Being Accessed in the Background

Boutique Smartphones

Mario Mandžukić’s Stunning Goal in the Champions League Final

AirPods

The Wall Street Journal Login (Almost) Every Journalist Knew

Atlassian Design Guidelines

United States Senate Approves Secure Messaging App Signal for Staffer Use, Moves All Sites to HTTPS

Apple Dubai Mall Opens With Unique ‘Solar Wings’ Design

Amazon Launches Echo Look, a $200 Camera That Uses Machine Learning to Help You Choose an Outfit

‘What Happened to Who?’

Unroll.me, Unravelled

‘Breath of the Wild’ for Nintendo Switch Outsells Actual Switch Consoles

Facebook Journalism Certification Is Nothing More Than a Guide to Using Facebook

Before You Ship

Princeton, Stanford Develop Perceptual Ad-Blocking, Which Uses Computer Vision to Block Ads

Next AP Stylebook Drops the Hypen, Capital ‘S’ From ‘Esports’

Sketch’s New, Open File Format

TypeShift, a New Word-Based Puzzle Game by Zach Gage, Launches March 18th

The C.I.A. Didn’t Break Encryption, but They Might Not Need To

‘Breath of the Wild’ Reviews Roundup

Tweaked Trending Topics Now Show Stories by Region

The Facebook Journalism Project

Google Goes After Interstitial Ads

Malleable, Modifiable, MacOS

Courier Prime Code

Obama’s Final Year in Photographs

2016

A Literary Look at Video Games

Human Computer Interaction

Tiny Wings for Apple TV Teaser

Silicon Valley’s Empathy Vacuum

No Man's Sky 1.1: The Foundation Update

Reviewing Games You Haven’t Played

Keep Angry, Stay Frosty

The Nintendo Switch

How Video Games Are Changing the Way Soccer Is Played

When It Comes to Security Design, Stop Trying to Fix the User

New Logo and Identity for Pandora

Tools and Toys’ Joshua Ginter Reviews the IPhone 7 Plus

‘When Good Enough Is Great’

Sony PlayStation VR Has Comfortable Fit, Palatable Price, but Lacks Compelling Games

Amazon Launches Twitch Prime

The Résumés of Designer News

Blizzard to Transition Away From Battle.net Name

Alto’s Adventure Adds Haptic Feedback

Campo Santo Teams Up With Good Universe to Create ‘Firewatch’ Film

Having Only Missed My Target Publish Date by a Year, Here Are Some Brief Thoughts and Observations on Apple Watch

Microsoft: Introducing OpenType Font Variations

Introducing OpenType and Variable Fonts

Adobe: ‘A New Kind of Font: A Variable Font’

‘What It’s Like to Be Lost Inside Developing a Game’

Warning: This Page Is Not Secure

Apple – Don’t Blink

What to Expect at Tomorrow’s PlayStation Meeting

The Economist Style Guide: Commas

Orphaned Words in Headlines

No Man’s Sky Is Not the New Destiny

PlayStation Plus++

Pour One Out for Vesper

NYT Now Is No More

NPR.org Ditches Comments

No Man’s Sky Review

Average U.S. Broadband Download Speeds Pass 50 Mbps for First Time

Pro Evolution Soccer Looks to Steal FIFA’s Crown

The Next Web’s Review of the Xbox One S Controller

Web Design in 4 Minutes

The History of the URL

Rocket League: The Vinyl Collection

No Man’s Sky Just Went Gold

On Removing the Headphone Jack

Elie Wiesel Dies at 87

Shutting Down Facebook Paper

Interview: Loren Brichter

A Small Exchange With Solebon LLC

Not Yet

The Legend of ‘Open’

A Look at Pixar’s New Short Film ‘Piper’

NPR’s Text-Only Website

Medium Now Supports RSS

The Billionaire’s Typewriter

Firewatch Review

The Guardian’s Review of Firewatch: 4/5

Polygon’s Review of Firewatch: 8.5/10

PCWorld’s Review of Firewatch: 3/5

Letterpress Now Owned by Solebon LLC

For $15, Firewatch for PC Will Develop and Ship Your In-Game Photos

Firewatch Launches Tomorrow on PS4, Windows, Mac, and Linux for $19.99

‘So Is San Francisco Really the Perfect System Font for Apple’s Products? It’s Complicated.’

Obama Pledges $4 Billion in Funding for Computer Science Education in Schools

Amazon Kindle Update

Angry, Sad, Wow, Haha, Like and Love

Google’s AlphaGo AI Defeats Reigning European Go Champion

Web Inspector Turns 10

Alan Rickman Dies at 69

Outsource Your Googling

Fitbit HR Review Transcript

The Hollywood Reporter’s Hour With Ridley Scott, Tarantino, and More

2015

Kerbal Space Program: To the Moon

Don’t Read More, Read Different

2014

Something Audacious

Facebook Acquires WhatsApp

Front Page Design, Part Two

Front Page Design