By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md: an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: July 31, 2015
Friday, 31 July 2015
- Mapping the United Swears of America ★
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Fuck is bicoastal, but shit and pussy are East Coast swears. (Via Kottke.)
- Safari vs. Chrome: Power Consumption ★
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BatteryBox:
Averaging data from all websites tested, Safari won first place with 6 hours 21 minutes of total usage, Firefox second with 5 hours 29 minutes of usage, and Chrome last with 5 hours 8 minutes of usage.
Basically, if you simply switch to using Safari instead of Chrome, on average you could get an extra 1 hour of usage from your battery life.
This exemplifies what the “Safari Is the New IE” crowd doesn’t get — Apple’s priorities for Safari/WebKit are very different from Google’s for Chrome/Blink. Innovation and progress aren’t necessarily only about adding new features. 24 percent better battery life is huge.
- ‘Rowdy’ Roddy Piper Dies at 61 ★
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I watched a lot of pro wrestling when I was a kid in the ’80s, and Piper was probably my favorite. “Piper’s Pit” was so great.
- Now Available for Pre-Order: Trade Edition of Taschen’s ‘The Making of Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey”’ ★
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Only $50 from Amazon — about $950 cheaper than the original limited edition box set. (Via Kottke.)
- Windows 10 Leaps Ahead of OS X and iOS ★
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Drew Olanoff, writing for TechCrunch:
As a heavy Apple user, I can’t tell you most of what is in Windows 10, but I can tell you that it now has a pretty awesome feature that I would use the shit out of: the middle finger emoji (and some other new ones, too). In my opinion, it’s quite revolutionary.
My pal Paul Kafasis has been on this case since last year, and I share his concern that Apple is falling behind in the emoji middle-finger race. He even filed a radar.
(Also interesting: Microsoft’s choice of gray for skin-tone-neutral emoji. I don’t like the yellow that Apple is using for neutral, but I’m not sure gray is better — they look like zombies to me. If you’re going to go with gray, perhaps the neutral emoji should be entirely grayscale, including hair and clothing?)