- ‘The Apple A15 SoC Performance Review: Faster & More Efficient’ by Andrei Frumusanu for AnandTech
- ‘No Access LGBTIQ Website Censorship in Six Countries’ by multiple authors for Citizen Lab
- ‘Handle with Care: Numero Group reissues Pastor T.L. Barrett’ by Jordan Ryan Pedersen for Passion of the Weiss
- ‘Being Young Thug – Inside the wildly unpredictable life of rap’s most eccentric superstar’ by Eric Skelton for Complex
What I’ve Read This Week (October 4 2021 to October 10 2021)
- ‘Beyond camera technology upgrades’ by Riccardo Mori
- ‘Who emailed who? Institutional privacy risks in the DNS’ by Basileal Imana for the APNIC blog
- ‘How NEO: The World Ends With You captures the 15 year evolution of Shibuya, and is a better game for it’ by Alicia Haddick for Rock Paper Shotgun
- ‘Examining btrfs, Linux’s perpetually half-finished filesystem’ by Jim Salter for Ars Technica
- ‘Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet’ by Celso Martinho and Tom Strickx for the Cloudflare blog
- ‘Surface Pro 8 review: The best Surface for people who love the Surface’ by Andrew Cunningham for Ars Technica
- ‘Affordable Internet for the community by the community’ by Sheikh Md Seum for the APNIC blog
- ‘There’s a Multibillion-Dollar Market for Your Phone’s Location Data’ by Jon Keegan and Alfred Ng for The Markup
What I’ve Read This Week (September 27 2021 to October 3 2021)
- ”Sable’ Asks You to Find Your Place in a World With Few Signposts’ by Cameron Kunzelman for Vice Gaming
- ‘Study: Effectiveness of Apple’s App Tracking Transparency’ by Johnny Lin and Sean Halloran
- ‘Hacking CloudKit – How I accidentally deleted your Apple Shortcuts’ by Frans Rosén for detectify
- ‘How to Get Things Done When You Don’t Want to Do Anything’ by Cameron Walker for The New York Times
- ‘The Beginner’s Guide to Apex Legends’ by Mint
- ‘iPhone 13 Pro Camera Review: Tanzania’ by Austin Mann
- ‘‘America’s Oldest Park Ranger’ Is Only Her Latest Chapter’ by Jennifer Schuessler for The New York Times
- ‘Linux Plumbers Conference Matrix and BBB integration’ by James Bottomley
- ‘The Tragedy of Safari 15 for Mac’s ‘Tabs’’ by John Gruber
The Overwatch League 2021 Playoffs
As the end of the 2021 OWL season crept ever closer, I felt a sense of fatigue coming on. This feeling has been especially present over the last two years of the league as it went entirely online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. I would describe the feeling as a sense of excitement exhaustion. I have without fail watched every OWL game since 2019, either live or in VOD format. It is not that I didn’t enjoy Overwatch esports anymore, I do and I will continue to enjoy this game but with the external stresses of the last two years, I am starting to feel like a lithium-ion battery that just can’t hold as much of a charge anymore.
With all that in mind, I decided to take two weeks off from work so I could feel properly rested for the playoffs and enjoy them to the fullest extent possible. After all these were going to be the last matches played on Overwatch 1 and that is something special. We get the last hurrah for the much despised 2CP map type and these were the last matches played in the 6v6 format. Overwatch 2 is going to be 5v5 and the 2CP map type will be removed.
Let’s get into it.
What I’ve Read This Week (September 20 2021 to September 26 2021)
- ‘iOS and iPadOS 15: The MacStories Review’ by Federico Viticci for MacStories
- ‘Secure’ Is Meaningless’ by Leonora Tindall
- ‘Climate Change Threatens Black History on Nantucket’ by Tiya Miles for The Atlantic
- ‘The iPhones 13’ by John Gruber for Daring Fireball
- ‘File Not Found’ by Monica Chin for The Verge
- ‘The Last Supper’ by Chris Nuttall-Smith for Toronto Life
- ‘The iPad Mini (2021) Review’ by Om Malik