Two weeks worth of articles this week as I was in New York City last weekend. This log has a bunch of news out of the Microsoft-Activision acquisition, Reddit following the path of Twitter, and more.
In Depth
Software Development & Design
- F# is the .NET Rust - jkone27
- JavaScript’s Backtick Strings are Likely the Wrong Tool for Your Job - Mattie Behrens
- Next.js App Router Update - Delba de Oliveira & Lee Robinson
- Overcoming Anxiety in Code Reviews - Melissa Piper
- The Next Phase of Eleventy: Return of the Side Project - Zach Leatherman
Technology & the Internet
- The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens - Dell Cameron
- What neo-Luddites get right – and wrong – about Big Tech - Tim Harford
- DPReview will live, actually — under new ownership - Jess Weatherbed
- Important And Needed New Report: Scaling Trust On The Web - Mike Masnick
- The government is helping Big Telecom squeeze out city-run broadband - Sean Hollister
- Reddit Experiments With Removing Mods, Blocking Attempts To Switch Subs To NSFW - Mike Masnick
Gaming
- Star Wars Outlaws gameplay looks like Grand Theft Auto: Tatooine - Ash Parrish
- FTC files to block Microsoft from buying Activision Blizzard - Tom Warren
- McDonald’s Just Dropped A Brand New Game Boy Game In 2023 - Anthony Wallace
- FTC: Xbox-exclusive Starfield is “powerful evidence” against Activision deal - Kyle Orland
- Beyond missing Titanic sub, handheld gamepads are a common military interface - Kyle Orland
- Private email shows PlayStation chief unworried about Xbox-exclusive Call of Duty - Kyle Orland
Business & Finance
- Spotify’s podcast plan is going off the rails - Amrita Khalid
- FTC sues Amazon for tricking customers into signing up for Prime - Makena Kelly
Science
- Heatwaves are stressing out power grids all over the world - Justine Calma
Sports
- Moneyball Broke Baseball - Mark Leibovich
- The Athletic Decides Local News Doesn’t Pay - Lauren Theisen
Podcasts
- Techdirt Podcast #354: Decentralizing Content Moderation
- Stronger by Science #114: Sleep, Health, And Fitness
- Techdirt Podcast #355: The Reddit Meltdown
- 99% Invisible #523: Six-on-Six Basketball
- .NET Rocks #1831: Clean Architecture in 2023 with Steven Smith
- On Point: Are return-to-office mandates backfiring?
Everything Else
- The rebuilt heart of Jason Isbell - Jefferson Cowie
- The Day the Lake Took the Edmund Fitzgerald - Martha Lundin