It’s official. Thrice have announced their new album titled Horizons/East is dropping digitally on September 17, 2021. The physical version isn’t releasing until October 8, 2021.
It’s a 10 song record that the band produced and recorded themselves. If you are a fan of their older stuff from Major/Minor or Alchemy Index, you would know the band produce some of their best work when they do it themselves.
What makes the LP release more interesting is the LP releases come with chromadepth glasses offering a 3D viewing experience including assets the band say they’ll provide on social media.
When people think of big names in gaming, they will often cite companies like Nintendo, Microsoft or Sony, followed by a select handful of gaming studios like Electronic Arts or CD Projekt Red. Do you want to know who one of the biggest names in gaming is that you rarely hear of? Valve.
If anything, I would argue, given just how much of the gaming market Valve controls through Steam alone, it’s one of the biggest gaming companies around, probably second to only Nintendo.
Ask anyone that knows me who my favourite band is, and they’ll tell you Thrice. The song my wife and I danced to at our wedding was a Dustin Kensrue song (not a Thrice song, but still). This band has significant meaning in the lives of my wife and me.
My closet is a Thrice shrine (minus the candles and creepy statues). I have bought every single release they’ve put out throughout the years, even the expensive, limited vinyl releases, merch. For the hard to get items, I have even paid way above what they were at retail to complete my collection. I own one of the only copies I am aware of, The Artist In The Ambulance (instrumental).
The popularity of React is undeniable. When bright-eyed developers think about creating a new app, React is usually the first thing that crosses their minds. React has all become the defacto front-end library of choice.
React is comfortable. React is familiar. React is used by almost everyone. React is the library you learn if you want to make yourself an employable front-end developer.
The truth is, front-end developers have painted themselves into a corner with React. To understand why React became so popular, we have to go back to 2013, when React first made its grand debut. AngularJS was the dominant and most popular option for web applications at the time, and boy did AngularJS suck.
It’s no surprise that Electron is a slow, poor performing memory hog. However, the value proposition here is that it allows you to distribute Web-based applications as native desktop apps without writing programming code or anything else non-web.
For some reason, all of these work chat/productivity apps decided to use Electron. Perhaps the most notable is Slack which continues to be a steaming pile of garbage in itself.
When Electron first arrived, it was actually a game-changer for desktop app development. Despite its flaws, companies including Microsoft flocked to it. However, over the years, it has started to show its age. This is why it is not surprising that Microsoft Teams is ditching Electron for Edge Webview2 in its 2.0 release due out soon.
In what has been the worst kept secret in the world, Microsoft finally lifted the lid on the soon to be released Windows 11 after leaks and teasers before the official announcement.
Funnily enough, the leaked build (which I did download) revealed most of what Microsoft had in store for Windows 11, and they still had some tricks up their sleeves.
Admittedly, this is the nicest Windows I have seen. From the corners to the newly centred start button, redesigned and simplified logo and use of translucency: Windows 11 looks beautiful. It’s very much inspired by macOS and ChromeOS and I am all for it.
What are you so afraid of, McDonald’s? McDonald’s have been contacted for comment, but at the time of publishing this, I have not heard back from them just yet.
The world was a different place eleven years ago. There was no pandemic, TikTok didn’t exist, and the iPhone was barely out of nappies. More importantly, McDonald’s served a dessert that has seemingly been lost in time: the Warm Cookie Sundae.
When it comes to cryptocurrency, despite its world-changing power to overthrow the traditional banking system and kill fiat currency (according to some crypto proponents), there are two gatekeepers who determine whether it goes up or down: China and Elon Musk.
Today, it was China’s turn to line up Bitcoin and the other top ten cryptocurrencies in a firing squad and open fire.
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— MartyParty (@martypartymusic) June 21, 2021
Even though the crackdown on Bitcoin announced by China was known weeks ago, today China showed they are not bluffing with numerous mining operations shutting down. The price at the time of writing this is down almost 11% in 24 hours.
I ditched harmful non-natural deodorants several months ago. Growing concerned with what they put into those store-bought deodorants like aluminium and other unnatural things that are not good for your body and take a few weeks of detoxing before you rid your body of them.
I am also at odds with myself. I am the world’s biggest sceptic when it comes to most things. The effectiveness of natural deodorants is one of those things.
No matter how big you are, how many resources your company has, Microsoft has once again shown that you’re never too big to fail. The latest Windows 10 KB5001330 update (which many get automatically) has broken gaming.
While gamers will be mostly affected, if you work with video or stream, you’ll notice the framerate drops and stuttering. The latest update actually makes streaming games through Streamlabs OBS a painful exercise.