Tag: Daring Fireball

Medium Custom Domains

Medium Deprecates Custom Domains Service (Daring Fireball)

I don’t understand why any publication, even a personal blog, would use Medium without a custom domain name. It’s not just about branding now, but about long-term sustainability. If you have your own domain name, you can keep old URLs working in perpetuity. I know many people love Medium’s editing interface, but I just can’t believe that so many writers and publications have turned toward a single centralized commercial entity as a proposed solution to what ails the publishing industry. There is tremendous strength in independence and decentralization.

I agree.

Google Duplex

Daring Fireball (Daniel Miessler)

It’s totally credible that Google would be the first to achieve something like Duplex, but the fact that all they did — as far as I’ve seen — was play a recording just seems off. It feels like a con.

Google: Hey, check out this cool tech I’ve created. It’s totally awesome. It does this and that and that.

Daring Fireball: Wow! Can I see it?

Google: Not yet. But soon. Then you’ll see how fantastic this is.

Daring Fireball: Just a peek. Something. Anything?

Google: Soon. Just you wait. Now let me tell you about some of the other features ...

Daring Fireball: Er ... I need to finish doing my laundry. Bye.

Horseshit?

Particularly with their “overall” score, DXO is pretending to assign an objective scientific-looking measurement to something that is inherently subjective. It’s horseshit, but everyone in the media falls for it. I said it was horseshit last year when they named a Pixel their “highest rated ever”, and I say it’s bullshit now when they said that about an iPhone. John Gruber

I know very little about the quality of DXO’s reviews. John Gruber hasn’t shown he knows much either. It's his opinion against the process that DXO follows. So if DXO's reviews are indeed useless, the Gruber's statements are just as much horse shit. But his statements have a wider reach then mine. He’s the Daring Fireball.