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Biscuits and Gravy

Biscuits and gravy are a classic comfort dish.

Writers Strike end

Hollywood heaves a sigh of relief. The WGA and major studios and streamers have reached a tentative agreement on a new three-year contract that promises to end the 146-day strike that has taken a heavy toll across the content industry.

Unity announces its revamped pricing model after outcry

A little more than a week after announcing a disastrous new pricing model that infuriated developers, Unity has introduced its revamped version.

Remix releases V2

We are excited to announce that after nearly 2 years of sustained effort since releasing Remix version 1 — 19 minor releases, over 100 patch releases, and thousands of closed issues and pull requests — we are releasing Remix v2 into the world today.

The MacRumors iOS 17 guide

This comprehensive guide rounds up all of our coverage, making it a great resource for casual users who haven't had a chance to test out ‌iOS 17‌ and those who might not remember all of the new features. Everything is organized by app or feature to make it easy to find what you might be looking for.

Developers fight back against Unity's new pricing model

The game developers affected by Unity’s new pricing model are striking back. A collective of developers across 19 companies, mostly based in Europe and mostly developing mobile games, has put out an open letter urging Unity to reverse course on its recently announced pricing model changes.

Fake Drake won't be eligible as Junos add AI guidelines to prevent robot takeover

The Juno Awards say a controversial "deep fake" song featuring unauthorized sound-alike vocals of Drake and the Weeknd won't be eligible at next year's celebration of Canadian music.

Proxying Plausible in Remix

Plausible is great but despite being a privacy friendly analytics tracker, sometimes it still gets blocked by blocklists who want to block all trackers, Proxying is the way to get around this.

Why Unity's New Install Fees Are Spurring Massive Backlash Among Game Developers

Game developers aren't happy with a new policy from Unity that will cost developers a small fee every time someone downloads a game built on Unity's game engine.

Making Sense of React Server Components

So, here's something that makes me feel old: React celebrated its 10th birthday this year!

Dill Pickle Dip

If you’re a fan of deep fried dill pickles, but don’t want a heavy deep fried treat every time, then this easy Dill Pickle Dip is just what you need.

Where is Microsoft’s handheld Xbox?

The Steam Deck has kickstarted a wave of handhelds from some of the big names in PC gaming. Asus has its Windows-powered ROG Ally, Lenovo just announced its own Legion Go handheld PC, and Logitech released a cloud-focused handheld. AMD has been quietly arming an entire new wave of Steam Deck competitors, so where is Microsoft’s Xbox handheld?

DHH on "Open source hooliganism and the TypeScript meltdown"

"I've seen a lot of true believers argue for virtues of their favorite paradigms and methods over the decades working in software. And mostly, I look at people with a passionate preference and smile. Isn't it great that people care so much about their craft that they volunteer to extol the benefits of their favorite tools!"

X’s new terms of service insist that tweets are now posts

Horace Dediu on "the value of a customer"

As I remember it, at least 10 years ago, I began to hear anecdotes from developers who built apps for both iOS and Android about their economics.

Cyberpunk 2077’s Only Getting One Expansion Because Its Old Tech Is Being Retired

Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red says its upcoming expansion, Phantom Liberty, will serve as the game’s one and only expansion because of its “technological decision” to move from CDPR’s own REDengine technology to Unreal 5.

Apple May Sell Optional iPhone 15 Pro USB-C Thunderbolt Cable

Jason Snell on the “The evolving world of iPhone marketing”

For the first few years of the iPhone’s existence, Apple introduced a single new model every year. In that time, total iPhone sales shot up from nothing to $100 billion a year. Not bad!

Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Windows 11 to get people to ditch Google

"There I was minding my own business in Chrome before tabbing back to a game and wham a pop-up appeared asking me to switch my default search engine to Microsoft Bing in Chrome. Stunningly, Microsoft now thinks it’s ok to shove a pop-up in my face above my apps and games just because I dare to use Chrome instead of Microsoft Edge."

Amazon acquires Fig, a startup building autocomplete for the command line

Amazon has acquired Fig, a Y Combinator (YC) alum that has been setting out to turbo-charge the command line terminal.