WordPress hosting, optimization, filmmaker, repairer of busted things, and to my surprise, a runner. (he/him) 🏃2020: 4,245km 🏃2021: 6,119km @WTL@mastodon.social
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Joined March 2007
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I encourage everyone still following me to bail on this place and move somewhere else. I've settled in nicely over on Mastodon, come find me there.
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If you’ve been laid off or otherwise pushed out of Twitter since he took over, get in on this!
Make him pay what you’re owed.
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Yeah, he sucks. But so do most of the people who’ve been in charge of this place before.
We’ve never been here here for them — we’re here for our community, our friends, our peers.
I’m choosing to focus on the good parts of what’s here. As long as they remain, so will I.
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Now my app’s product page shows gambling ads, which I’m really not OK with.
Apple shouldn’t be OK with it, either.
The App Store has corrupted such a great company so deeply. They make so much from gambling and manipulative IAPs that they don’t even see the problem anymore.
@marcoarment You know what’s worse than having to pay hundreds of $$$ to try out Apple’s new ad scheme? Seeing that they’re advertising online gambling on @OvercastFM’s page on the App Store.
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Abhorrent.
And yet, I’m not surprised at all. When ads become more algorithmic, people find fraudulent ways to cheat and make more money.
The endgame: algorithmic podcast ads, which already degrade the listener experience, get further devalued and the entire industry loses.
NEW: podcast companies are buying millions of listens through auto-playing episodes populated in free mobile games. iHeart, the top podcast publisher on Podtrac, has bought around 6 million unique downloads per month since 2018 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Much like the Battle of Yavin serves as a convenient chronological anchor for outside observers that doesn't work as an in-universe calendar, the end of Google Reader allows the deeply online to reminisce about the moment before social timelines and algorithmic amplification
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Fascinating 🧵 on how graduation gowns commonly seen across the world today originated from the Muslim thawb or qamees. Students from Europe continued to dress in them after returning home as an indication that they graduated from a Muslim University.
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Indie devs often think they can’t compete with big companies.
But big companies almost never take advantage of new features on day one. Some never do them.
Every time iOS adds new abilities that big companies don’t adopt, that’s an opportunity for people to switch to your app.
Wait. @audible_com doesn’t have a widget???
How can this be?
Am I missing something?