The United app’s dynamic island and Lock Screen support is actually pretty impressive.

The dynamic island shows you your gate and gives you a running countdown to your boarding time.

Another one bites the dust.

I used Reddit a lot, but I don’t think I ever loved it quite as much as others did. Still, it was a great platform for discussion and information sharing for many years. We’re going to feel this for a bit, and who knows what will rise up to replace it. May be a while.

Like Twitter let this be another lesson that if it’s not a portable platform and/or open source software, it’s only a matter of time before it’s gone or steered in an unusable direction.

RIP

Red state Republican leaders to federal government: “we believe in small government and local law”

Red state Republican leaders to blue cities in their state: “you have to do what we say, we can’t have local authorities making the laws!”

A lot of the Facebook site itself just doesn’t seem to work any more.

Tried to use the “view as” functionality just to see what I have exposed to public viewers and it doesn’t work. Tried multiple browsers. Page kinda hangs forever and then I get a “sorry, something is broken” message.

The stupid coverage of this billionaire sub just proves that even good “news” organizations are entertainment not information. I’d have to go back and count but I think a majority of the WaPo pushes to my device the last day or so were about this idiotic story that I just don’t care about and objectively affects almost no one.

At this point it’s hard to recommend anyone engage with news regularly unless it’s small and local and independent.