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 new Arc companion 👍
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 Swift and SwiftUI to overcome these limitations and provide a smoother, more native experience.
https://blog.raindrop.io/ios-ipados-app-5-0-8d5dc9c14751
The app had gotten so clunky to use that I moved bookmarking to Anybox.app, but I missed Raindrop.io’s web API and all of my automations through Zapier and IFTTT.
Now, I’m back. What a great update from Raindrop.io! This came as a complete surprise, as I had no idea this was in the works (thankfully I still subscribed to its RSS feed). It looks great, and adds a ton more functionality.
I renewed my yearly subscription on the spot.
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 should make this a less scary proposition.
https://pxlnv.com/linklog/rss-rewild/
I couldn’t agree with this more. RSS is fantastic, but it’s so hard for me to get my non-techie friends into it. It’s hard to believe that this hasn’t been solved yet by one of the many RSS readers that grew from the demise of Google Reader (I personally use Feedbin).
Surely, there’s a major opportunity here for someone to seize.
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” game by calling those long-tail searches. Now, Google is content spam on top of content spam underneath loads of ads and Google SERP features.
What Neeva is doing with AI has been great for me. And, as always, Matt provides the best rundown of how it works:
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 can analyze the wearer’s body, eye movements and the external environment.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-01-29/apple-aapl-reality-pro-headset-2023-will-it-eventually-replace-the-iphone-ldhhulli?cmpid=BBD012923_POWERON
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
Not cool, and kind of lame reasoning.
We’ve invested over 10 years building Tweetbot for Twitter and it was shut down in a blink of an eye. We are very sorry to all of our customers who chose Tweetbot as their way to interact with Twitter’s service and we thank you so much for the many years of support and feedback.
https://tapbots.com/tweetbot/
In other news, I created a Mastodon account last night. Mainly to play around with all the fun new apps, but we’ll see.
More and more book lovers are listening to audiobooks, yet only a fraction of books are converted to audio — leaving millions of titles unheard. Many authors — especially independent authors and those associated with small publishers — aren’t able to create audiobooks due to the cost and complexity of production. Apple Books digital narration makes the creation of audiobooks more accessible to all, helping you meet the growing demand by making more books available for listeners to enjoy.
https://authors.apple.com/support/4519-digital-narration-audiobooks
I really like the idea of this, as I listen to more books than I read. I have also been enjoying services like Matter and Readwise Reader that can narrate your saved articles.
One thing I’d love to see across the industry is better pricing for purchasing book + narration (whether human or AI). I like to read along when narration occurs, but it’s really tough to pay double for each book.
