Last year I had a flight get cancelled about an hour before it was supposed to start boarding. I got an alert from Flighty, immediately dashed over to the nearest gate agent, and got rebooked on another flight before American Airlines notified me that the original flight had been cancelled. https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/08/02/flighty-3 This happened to me last month…

Worth mentioning here since I’ve noted in the past how much I enjoyed using Neeva’s search product: … there is no longer a path towards creating a sustainable business in consumer search. As a result, over the next few weeks, we will be shutting down neeva.com and our consumer search product, and shifting to a…

Anime studio Science Saru will be helming the revival, and Bryan Lee O’Malley, who created the original comic, will serve as writer and executive producer alongside Edgar Wright, who directed the live-action film, and BenDavid Grabinski. https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/30/23663056/netflix-scott-pilgrim-anime-cast The entire cast, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Edgar Wright are all involved!? Awesome.

Oh, actually, quick diversion. The fact that that link opens the Google Maps app is the coolest thing about Arc’s app — and potentially the most transformative. https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/30/23662130/arc-mobile-browser-hands-on-ios Honestly, quick access to the sidebar on the go is super functional. And having it open in the respective app is icing on the cake. Loving this…

Our app was previously developed using React Native, which is a hybrid web technology that enables JavaScript developers to build mobile apps. However, we encountered several limitations due to its hybrid nature, such as poor performance and the inability to create native features like Widgets and Shortcuts integration. In this brand new app, I have used…

I still think website feeds have something of a branding problem. “RSS” and “feed reader”, despite the former term being an acronym for “really simple syndication”, sound technical and hard to use. It is just as easy to follow a site with a reader as it is on any social media platform. We can and…

But I think the bigger problem is that Google no longer feels complete. I used to be able to weed out the junk by writing more specific queries. Now, such queries—as well as searches for phrases that I know exist on the Web—commonly turn up nothing. https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/01/25/chatgpt-vs-google/ SEOs caught on to the “more specific queries”…

Because this sounds awful to me. Apple’s first mixed-reality device, likely to be dubbed the Reality Pro, will launch this year with an immense amount of new technology, ranging from dual 4K displays to a flexible OLED screen on the front that shows a user’s eyes. It will have more than a dozen cameras that…

Ivory from Tapbots released today. Hopefully this eases the transition to Mastodon for many Twitter users. As Gruber puts it: …as a decade-long Tweetbot user, it feels like home. https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/01/24/ivory-1 Sure does.

In 2013, we launched AmazonSmile to make it easier for customers to support their favorite charities. However, after almost a decade, the program has not grown to create the impact that we had originally hoped. With so many eligible organizations—more than 1 million globally—our ability to have an impact was often spread too thin. https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-closing-amazonsmile-to-focus-its-philanthropic-giving-to-programs-with-greater-impact…