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Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Google’s “Web Environment Integrity API” doesn’t sound great.

I suggest reading Ars Technica’s article about about the proposed standard, which describes it as “a DRM gatekeeper for the web.”

Here’s the proposal, if you want to read it yourself.

Wes Davis
Wes Davis
A Clippy Reddit alien: the adorable Thing That Should Not Be.

Apollo app developer Christian Selig dropped new wallpaper art of a cute hybrid of Clippy and the Reddit alien today.

Selig has been hawking fun wallpapers for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS via the Apollo app since Reddit started down a dark path of hostile changes earlier this year and Selig shuttered the popular third-party Reddit client. He’s also selling the wallpapers outside the app.

A screenshot of Christian Selig’s Mastodon post announcing he’d added the Apollopy wallpaper. It shows the wallpaper, which is artwork of Clippy but with the Reddit alien’s red eyes and antenna, and the paperclip body filled with a blue to dark, bluish purple gradient.
Christian Selig’s Apollo wallpaper set.
Screenshot: Wes Davis / The Verge
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Wes Davis
Why would anyone make a website in 2023? Squarespace CEO Anthony Casalena has some ideas

Squarespace has lived through the eras of domain squatting, SEO keywords, and social algorithms and is now launching AI tools. Here’s what’s next for the 20-year-old company.

Nilay Patel
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Glassdoor is getting a pretty big update.

You might know Glassdoor as the place where you can screen a future employer (or spill the details on a former one), but this latest update adds hubs, called “bowls,” where you can chat with other people in specific job fields, like tech or consulting.

Glassdoor is also adding places where you can chat with coworkers and managers at the company you currently work “with varying levels of anonymity.” To me, all this sounds kinda like a work-oriented version of Reddit, and seems like a logical next step for a site filled with employee reviews.

Image: Glassdoor