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My gaming buddy

One of the most devastating parts of grief is how it can strike out of nowhere. There you are, doing a perfectly normal, everyday thing, and then that perfectly normal, everyday thing reminds you of something or someone who is no longer there. And when that presence you lost was intimately connected with your life, well, those moments happen frequently and unexpectedly. I recently had to say goodbye to an old friend named Millie, an 18-year-old shih tzu who was a constant and steady companion f

Google Home gets an obvious but welcome way to tell when you’re home

Google previously announced that older Nest Thermostats are getting full scheduling capabilities . Now, it turns out that the Google Home app is also getting another helpful addition. Don’t want to miss the best from Android Authority? According to the official release notes, the latest version of the Google Home app (v3.39) adds Wi-Fi presence capabilities: Added support in presence sensing to adjust Home & Away status based on when your mobile device connects or disconnects from a selected

Depot (YC W23) Is Hiring a Community and Events Manager (Remote)

Depot is growing rapidly and reinventing the software build space. We’re looking for a Community & Events Manager to own our real-world developer presence from small scrappy meetups to major trade shows. This isn’t a polished field marketing role. You’re not coordinating keynote stages or passing off ideas to an agency. You’re the one planning developer happy hours, running trade show booths end-to-end, and figuring out how to create moments that developers actually care about. You’ll own our

Reflections on Soviet Amateur Photography

The appearance of strangers within family photo albums was part of how a Soviet imagined and imaged community was constructed and sustained. “Just as any advanced comrade must have a watch, he shall also possess mastery of a photo camera.” So declared Anatoly Lunacharsky in 1926, in his role as the Soviet Union’s Commissar of Enlightenment. This programmatic statement was included in the very first issue of the photography journal Sovetskoe Foto, published that same year. In fact, such amateur

Two years in, Apple is now officially on Threads

It took a minute, but Apple has at last activated its official Threads account. And thanks to its massive Instagram presence, it instantly picked up nearly 5 million followers. Today’s move comes well after several Apple-related accounts joined Instagram’s alternative to X right out of the gate. Apple Music, Apple News, Apple Books, Shazam, and Beats by Dre were among the first to show up shortly after Threads launched in mid-2023, but the main @apple account remained absent until now. Instant