Covered this week; Google phasing out goo.gl while phasing in Firebase Dynamic Links… The streets of San Francisco, an interactive map… Attacking Amazon, Trump picks another petty fight… Mac Pro is coming, but most likely not until December of 2019… Tim Cook talks to Recode… Zuckerberg on Weekend Update… How to hide your browser history using encrypted DNS…
April 2, 2018
Google will begin turning down support for goo.gl over the coming weeks and replacing it with Firebase Dynamic Links (FDL). FDLs are smart URLs that allow you to send existing and potential users to any location within an iOS, Android or web app. While most features of goo.gl will eventually sunset, all existing links will continue to redirect to the intended destination.
April 3, 2018
Granted, this link will be most interesting to those that live in San Francisco or that have a history with that city… but it may also be seen as interesting by those just interested in history, or those that may have sometimes wondered about how the streets in whatever city they reside in had gotten their names… and lastly, to those interested in modern web interfaces… as far as that goes, this is an interesting one.
April 4, 2018
Trump is discussing ways to escalate his Twitter attacks on Amazon to further damage the company. “He’s off the hook on this. It’s war,” one source told me. “He gets obsessed with something, and now he’s obsessed with Bezos,” said another source. “Trump is like, how can I fuck with him?”
April 5, 2018
“Apple has decided to start completely over with the Mac Pro, introduce completely new pro products like the iMac Pro and refresh the entire MacBook Pro lineup. The reasoning given on the Mac Pro was basically that Apple had painted itself into an architecture corner by being aggressively original on the design of the bullet/turbine/trash-can shaped casing and internal components of the current Mac Pro. There was nothing to be done but start over.”
April 6, 2018
Recode’s Kara Swisher and MSNBC’s Chris Hayes interviewed Apple CEO Tim Cook in Chicago, IL. The interview was taped on Tuesday, March 27, and aired on Friday, April 6, 2018.
April 7, 2018
Mark Zuckerberg preps for Congress by visiting Saturday Night Live.
April 8, 2018
“The death of network neutrality and the loosening of regulations on how Internet providers handle customers’ network traffic have raised many concerns over privacy. Internet providers (and others watching traffic as it passes over the Internet) have long had a tool that allows them to monitor individuals’ Internet habits with ease: their Domain Name System (DNS) servers. And if they haven’t been cashing in on that data already (or using it to change how you see the Internet), they likely soon will.”
