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Daring Fireball: The Talk Show
Friday, 21 November 2025 Special guest Stephen Robles joins the show. Topics include indie media and YouTube, Shortcuts and automation, and the state of podcasting. Tuesday, 18 November 2025 Special g...
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★ ‘A Reading Room on Wheels, a Lover’s Lane, and, After 11 PM, a Flophouse’
Vittoria Benzine, at Artnet (via Oliver Thomas):
The singular American filmmaker Stanley Kubrick saw the littledetails. He even saw the future. But, most of all, he sawpeople, with all their quirks. Kubrick’s films, from Dr.Strangelove (1964) to The Shining (1980), offer proof of this — as do his earliest... -
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Apple’s Mac Mini Went Viral. Why Can’t You Buy One Right Now? - WSJ
Nicole Nguyen, writing for The Wall Street Journal (gift link):
Mac Minis with larger-capacity RAM chips — a base M4 model with32GB of RAM, starting at $999, and the M4 Pro models with 64GB ofRAM, starting at $1,999 — are “currently unavailable” onApple.com. And estimated shipping wait times for any other Minimodel... -
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Apple’s Developer Guidelines for Ratings and Review Prompts
Apple Design:
Avoid pestering people. Repeated rating requests can beirritating, and may even negatively influence people’s opinion ofyour app. Consider allowing at least a week or two betweenrequests, prompting again after people demonstrate additionalengagement... -
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Follow-Up Regarding App Store Reviews, Which Are Definitely Busted
I wrote yesterday:
And the apps that do the right thing — like Godier’s Current — and never solicit a review like a needy hustler are penalized.
On Mastodon, Steven Troughton-Smith responded:
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