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It’s always strange to me to see King Kaufman and Jason Snell talking to each other on Twitter. My work and tech nerd worlds colliding

I prefer the UI of Scanbot, but I’ve always found that Scanner Pro by Readdle produces better quality scans on iOS: https://thesweetsetup.com/apps/best-scanning-app-ios/

If you only do one thing today it should be to read this horrifying post by Kathy Sierra about harassment: http://seriouspony.com/trouble-at-the-koolaid-point

If the lack of stock in the SF store is anything to go by, Apple is selling a lot of iPhone 6 cases. Took me three separate trips to get one

Two nights ago I was woken up by an earthquake at 3:20am. Last night I was woken up by the cat puking at 4am. So excited for tonight!

The Mailbox Mac app has some annoying bugs (even considering it’s a beta) but I still like it more than any other Mac mail client

The new, fully native Asana iOS app is really nice: https://blog.asana.com/2014/07/ios7/

So I was wrong about England getting out of their group. Now I just hope I’m also wrong about the USA not getting out of theirs

For Rebecca #663399Becca http://www.zeldman.com/2014/06/10/the-color-purple/

…Semi-finals: Brazil vs. France, Spain or Chile (can’t decide who wins the group) vs. Argentina. Brazil beats Argentina in the final

My World Cup predictions: England finish 2nd in their group, lose in the quarter finals to Brazil. USA doesn’t make it out of their group…

Web Developer for Chrome 0.4.6 is out. It fixes a bunch of minor issues including scrollbars showing in the toolbar: https://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/history/chrome/

Just used Caviar for the first time at Bleacher Report and it worked great. Highly recommended

I’ve been saying that Twitch was an interesting company. Not surprised to see Google/YouTube acquire them for $1bn: variety.com/2014/…

I doubt we’ll see John Gruber post this as Claim Chowder: “I mean, who has even heard of “Beats Audio”?” https://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/06/20/touchpad

I like my Dropcam and this looks like a neat add-on: https://store.google.com/us/product/nest_cam

Watched ESPN’s 30 for 30 about the Hillsborough disaster last night. A brutal, but important account of the tragedy: http://www.espn.com/30for30/film?page=hillsborough

Dispatch looks like a nice iPhone email app: https://thesweetsetup.com/apps/the-best-third-party-email-app-for-ios/ But I want my email app to be the same on the iPad so it’s out for me

“[User Agent Switcher] let us succeed in using a link to connect our son’s diabetes pump (and the data) to the website of Medtronic.”

I’m so busy that I really need a vacation, but I’m too busy to plan a vacation. First world problems indeed