7 Things This Week [#165]
A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Man, these long hiking trips on Sundays is really throwing off my blog post schedule!
1️⃣ This Newji app was making Genmoji before Genmoji was a thing. And it works on devices that can’t do Apple Intelligence. [🔗 apps.apple.com]
2️⃣ Bill Lawrence of Shrinking, Ted Lasso, Bad Monkey, Scrubs and more gave a great interview to the LA Times. [🔗 latimes.com]
3️⃣ For the nerds (👋), Ricky Mondello wrote a nicely cogent piece on how and why passkeys should be considered instead of, or in addition to, “magic links” to improve user security and customer experience. [🔗 rmondello.com]
4️⃣ AnnoyingRains made possibly the simplest change ever to their web form that cut off 100% of spam messages. 🤣 [🔗 social.avali.zone] (Via Ricky Mondello)
5️⃣ Marques Brownlee (MKBHD) made a video recapping his 2024, full of lots of highs (Ultimate Frisbee championships, giving a commencement speech, shipping products), and lows (some high-profile mistakes he made with those shipped products, and stupid driving behavior). What I took away was (1) “Wow!” I don’t know anyone who had a busier 2024 than him, and (2) I appreciate how he took personal responsibility for his mistakes, seems to have actually learned from them, and apologized, sincerely, with class. Well-worth watching the video. [▶️ youtube.com]
6️⃣ This year-end media recap by Anh might be the most effort I’ve ever seen in one. Gorgeous to simply scroll through. [🔗 anhvn.com]
7️⃣ This kind of infographic is something I’d usually share as a ‘Take a Chance’ link here. But those I prefer to be entertaining or uplifting. This, which shows how man-made things now outweigh natural beings on Earth, is quite sobering. [🔗 biocubes.net]
Thanks for reading 7 Things. If you enjoyed these links or have something neat to share, please let me know. And remember that you can get more links to internet nuggets that I’m finding every day by following me @jarrod on the social web.