caseynewton

caseynewton, 1 year ago to random

Cron, a calendar app owned by Notion, is now generally available (and free). Has some missing features (no iCloud integration) but it's been my daily calendar for months now and I recommend it https://cron.com/

caseynewton, 1 year ago to random

After a period of relative stability my Sonos speakers have once again begun blinking in and out of connection with my home network, as part of a long-running campaign to drive me insane

caseynewton, 1 year ago to random

BeReal launched a feed of verified influencers along with a self-contradicting blog post about how it “isn't about influencing" 🤔 https://bereal.com/en/2023/05/01/new-feature-drop-realpeople-is-here/

caseynewton, 1 year ago to random

It's Hard Fork Friday! This week on the show, it's Drake vs. Grimes, Semafor's Ben Smith on the end of the BuzzFeed era, and our new game HatGPT https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/28/podcasts/hard-fork-deepfake-drake.html

caseynewton, 1 year ago to random

I wrote about the rise of vibes-based antitrust and how giants like Meta and Microsoft keep trying to buy companies using assumptions that no longer apply

https://www.platformer.news/p/vibes-based-antitrust-hits-microsoft

caseynewton, 1 year ago to random

Oh and let him hypnotize me into writing about him? I don't think so honey

caseynewton, 1 year ago to random

Normal app behavior from a company that has enough engineers working on it

caseynewton, 1 year ago to random

Wrote about how after nine months of shipping nothing but technical fixes, BeReal's first big idea is … to become a worse version of Instagram stories 😩 https://www.platformer.news/p/how-bereal-missed-its-moment

twatson, 1 year ago to random

Incredible reporting from @caseynewton on This American Life. It’s the second story and absolutely worth a full listen. Yoel Roth’s quote cut me deep. It summarizes why I put so much time and effort into @glass. I’m still optimistic.

“I love the internet. I really do. I think-- the internet's power to bring people together and help folks all over the world find connections that matter to them is magical and is one of humanity's greatest achievements.”

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/797/what-i-was-thinking-as-we-were-sinking

caseynewton, 1 year ago to random

New from me today: Even employees who are generally sympathetic to Musk are gobsmacked by the catastrophe of Twitter Blue https://www.platformer.news/p/twitters-badge-of-dishonor

caseynewton, 1 year ago to random

Someone should make a joke about Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon working together on a new show

caseynewton, 1 year ago to random

The obvious next step for Twitter is to announce that if you subscribe to Blue no one will be able to block you

hunterwalk, 1 year ago to random

I'm so proud of @caseynewton for striking out on his own, and working on projects he cares about. Such as @yoyoel telling his story via The American Life

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/797/what-i-was-thinking-as-we-were-sinking

caseynewton, 1 year ago to random

Twitter is dying :)

caseynewton, 1 year ago to random

Can Snap snap back? After a bruising year, the company seems haunted by the ghost of its past ambitions. My free column this week: https://www.platformer.news/p/can-snap-snap-back

caseynewton, 1 year ago to random

RIP BuzzFeed News :(

caseynewton, 1 year ago to random

This will be familiar to anyone who has been watching the rapid unscheduled disassembly of Twitter https://twitter.com/spacex/status/1649045802332073986?s=61&t=Vqm9FnxVwEfRYYt9aGnAeA

caseynewton, 1 year ago to random

Good for Microsoft https://mashable.com/article/microsoft-drops-twitter-from-advertising-platform