The Daily Dad — May 9, 2024

Things you might want to know:

• RIP ‘Red vs. Blue.’ Machinima Is Gone—but Its Legacy Is Everywhere
  💭 I haven’t watched an episode of RvB in ten years, but I loved it early on… hell, I bought DVDs of the first few “seasons”.

The Daily Dad — May 1, 2024

Things you might want to know:

• Programming language BASIC is 60 years old
  💭 I used to be embarrassed by my love for BASIC… real programmers used —depending on the era— assembly, or PASCAL, or C++, or Java, or whatever.

The Daily Dad — Apr 28, 2024

Things you might want to know:

• Why Friendships Are Ending Over Taylor Swift
  💭 That could be what’s happening. Or —and stay with me here— maybe some people are annoying, and some people are insensitive, and the friendships between them would be doomed with or without the existence of a particular pop star?

The Daily Dad — Mar 23, 2024

Things you might want to know:

• Walmart Brings the Popular MacBook Air With the M1 Chip to Its Shelves
  💭 This is interesting for two reasons. First, this is the first Mac that Walmart has tried to sell, and it looks like Apple is producing it exclusively for them.

Tumblr and WordPress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools

Uh oh.

This gives Matt’s recent, public freak-out some necessary context. Things must be melting down at Tumblr HQ.