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Shaka, when the walls fell.

Don't forget a decent webcam and pretty good speakers. I roll these out at work and I don't like retiring them after seven years; however monitors don't last forever either.

There's something to be said about the aesthetic of having everything in one, not having speakers and Webcams strewn across the place.

They also have fans in them, that's not necessarily good for longevity. Thermally, yes, until the fans clog up or start making noise.

If you're playing an ad supported game, you kind of know the deal already. It still is sad of course, but it is what it is.

Simon Willison:

Another game experiment - I wanted to see if it was feasible to have a two player game on two separate phones running in static HTML where the networking code uses chirps sent via the microphone. It seems to work!

Build a two player competitive pong like game where two players use their phones close to each other and the game state is sent via audio noises which the web microphone API can interpret - but add graphical and gameplay twists to make it a lot more fun and intertwine than pong

Claude Opus 5.5 Extra in Claude Code.

Tags: game-design, ai, generative-ai, llms, claude-code

Listen to the Visa episode of The Acquired Podcast, and you'll change your mind.

That could be part of the reason, but also I think insisting on chip all this time just really slows down a store that doesn't really spend on cashiering all that much. Tap to pay can shave off a few seconds on every transaction (ever been behind someone in the store who finally pulls out their wallet, finds the business end of their card, inserts it, waits 20 seconds...).

Millions of transactions a day, over thousands of stores, it can make a huge difference in time saved.

I get why the banks are not happy, but I can tell them that I am not going to use Chase Wallet, Bank of America Wallet, Citi Wallet...just pay the fee and be thankful for the reduced payment friction, which they invariably make money from. PS: Nobody is going to use Paze (yet another half baked wallet), other than to collect the free $10 to sign up for it.

Somewhat related, even Walmart relented and now supports Apple Pay/Contactless. Every big merchant has now relented (Kroger, Home Depot, Walmart).

When I read this post earlier, I immediately thought, "don't cross the streams."