Biggest takeaway from Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom gameplay demo this morning… did Link always have such a beautiful flowing mullet?
Remembering Alex Hay
Alex Hay, developer of the super useful Toolbox Pro iOS app, has passed away after a battle with cancer. MacStories has a nice tribute to Alex that’s worth a read and touches on his impact on the Apple automation community.
Red McCombs passes away
San Antonio billionaire Red McCombs, whom I once used a urinal next to in a business school with his name on it, has passed away at 95.
Business icon Red McCombs passes away at 95 years old (KSAT.com)
The Print Shop and dot matrix banners
I spent so much time messing with The Print Shop and my family’s dot matrix printer as a kid. I still have long printouts of my baseball card database upstairs in the attic somewhere too.
@shtunner Replying to @altheval Printing a banner for my music academy’s front desk! Using a Portable Commodore SX-64, The Print Shop and MPS 803 dot matrix printer! #asmr #80s #tech #retrocomputer #floppydisk #pixelart #retrogaming ♬ Cathode Girls – Com Truise
(via Nilay at The Verge)
Sam Bankman-Fried is not a child
Sam Bankman-Fried is not a child:
“On one hand, literal children are portrayed in the media as adults, and treated as such in the prison system; on the other, a man who’s been old enough to vote for over a decade is being described as “a young man in need of both defense and a friend” offering refreshments to a reporter “as if we were there for a playdate”.”
(via The Verge)
I wanted to write something about yesterday’s Amazon news that they were shutting down their AmazonSmile charitable giving program because it wasn’t creating enough “impact” that just coincidentally happened on the same day they laid off 18,000 employees, but The Verge has a great writeup this morning echoing many of my sentiments: I wish Amazon had been honest about why it’s sunsetting AmazonSmile
A new kids-themed Universal Studios park coming to Frisco
According to the announcement it’ll be about 1/4th the size of Universal’s other parks. By time it’s built my kids would be getting too old but considering the site is about 10 miles from us this is definitely interesting news.