Michael Elliott

@DocMElliott
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MeDoc, inventor of the judgmental stare
About meInternist. Pediatrician. Nerd. Gryff...oh, who am I kidding? Hufflepuff 🤗. 🇳🇱#ikvaccineer 🇺🇸 #vaccineswork
@leo love your MBW picks of the week. Can I make a suggestion? Can you include hyperlinks in the show notes? Sure helps when trying to check the Picks out!
@jsnell thanks for recent book recommendations on Incomparable. Just listened to The Goblin Emperor, as well as Nettle & Bone and greatly enjoyed.
I was worried, but it appears we're still safe! #WWDC23 #MacOS #Sonoma
Nerding Out With Maestral, LaunchControl, and Keyboard Maestro

Two ways to automatically relaunch an app that’s crashing in the background.

Daring Fireball

@gruber someone linked this article on Reddit, about Reddit’s PR fiasco over API pricing.

It’s about AOL chat room moderator revolts.

The whole article is eerily prescient re: the problems that Reddit is facing now

https://priceonomics.com/the-aol-chat-room-monitor-revolt/

The Aol Chat Room Monitor Revolt - Priceonomics

In 1999, America Online's volunteer chat room monitors sued the company for back wages. Do today's hot Internet companies risk the same fate?

Priceonomics
@christianselig any data on amount of API calls through Apollo re: blackout? Are you able to see anything on your end?
Got off my call with Reddit just now about the API. Bad news unless I come up with 20 million dollars (not joking). Appreciate boosts. https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_call_with_reddit_to_discuss_pricing_bad/
📣 Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for third-party apps, their announced pricing is close to Twitter's pricing, and Apollo would have to pay Reddit $20 million per year to keep running as-is.

Hey all, I'll cut to the chase: 50 million requests costs $12,000, a figure far more than I ever could have imagined. Apollo made 7 billion...

reddit

No one is asking Reddit for the moon and the stars, just to listen to small changes.

Even Twitch, which made horrendous moves this month, recognized that the community is what gives their company any value at all, and responded in some capacity to make their users feel heard.

Here are my first impressions of Apple Vision Pro after having tried it for myself. They're mostly favorable, but that doesn't mean I'm predicting success. There are still so many unknowns! https://www.fastcompany.com/90905749/apple-vision-pro-first-look