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• Twenty years on a shelf

  Dave Nanian designed what was meant to be SuperDuper 3.0 in 2007, decided the systems of the day couldn’t carry it, and put the notebook on a shelf for nearly twenty years. SuperDuper 4 is that design, finally built — a ground-up rewr…

• Taking your Mac's updates back into your own hands

  Howard Oakley has written the reference we wish Apple shipped: a plain, complete account of driving macOS updates from the command line with softwareupdate. It exists because the built-in documentation doesn’t. The man page claims a l…

• App Store chaos, without the gold

  The App Store is being flooded like it hasn’t been in years. John Voorhees, reading Kalley Huang’s New York Times reporting, pulls the number that captures it: new app releases doubled to roughly 560,000 in the first half of thi…

• The friction is where the letters change

  Kottke points to a piece on AI and type design that lands a line worth keeping: “A tool that shields us from the friction of the work is compelling, but if we don’t experience the friction, we will never change the work.” …

• The web you can fix, and the apps you can't

  Cory Doctorow’s latest Pluralistic post runs through the browser-side ways a user can push back on a site that’s gotten hostile — blockers, overrides, extensions, small acts of taking your experience back. Then comes the catch t…

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