Dan Frakes
danfrakes.bsky.social
Dan Frakes
@danfrakes.bsky.social
Editor at a fruit company. Formerly an editor at NYT, Wirecutter, Macworld. (More active on Mastodon than here.)
“If you think electric bikes are bad, there’s a much bigger menace hitting our roads”
If you think electric bikes are bad, there’s a much bigger menace hitting our roads
Electric bikes are a menace. They go almost as fast as a car (if the car is parking), they’re whisper...
electrek.co
July 21, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Check out this year's Apple Design Award winners and finalists! apps.apple.com/us/story/id1... Some really great apps and games, including (near and dear to my heart) around a dozen native Mac apps.
‎Meet the 2025 Apple Design Award Winners : App Store Story
‎Learn about collection Meet the 2025 Apple Design Award Winners featuring CapWords: AI Snap Learn Langs, Balatro, Speechify – Text to Speech, and many more on Mac App Store. Enjoy these apps on your ...
apps.apple.com
June 3, 2025 at 8:50 PM
To my friend and coworker Leif Johnson: Rest in peace. This is a wonderful tribute that gives you a glimpse of his incredible range of interests and his exceptional talents, but it can’t show you how kind and humble he was. I was lucky to have known him.

www.after.com/obituaries/j...
Obituary for Jeremiah Leif Pickett Johnson | After®
Remembering the obituary for Jeremiah Leif Pickett Johnson: On May 17, 2025, Jeremiah Leif Pickett Johnson, 45, died suddenly of a cardiovascular event. Known as “Leif” to his friends and colleagues a...
www.after.com
May 24, 2025 at 12:03 AM
The Inflation Reduction Act was revenue positive, helped millions of Americans, and created US jobs and investment. The new republican tax bill will add $trillions to the deficit, give massive $ to the rich, and hurt the middle class and poor with cuts to everything from health care to food to ed.
May 22, 2025 at 8:31 PM
All-new macOS email client aimed at power users: mailmaven.app
MailMaven
MailMaven website
mailmaven.app
May 2, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Reposted by Dan Frakes
I'm deeply saddened to share that Donald Shoup passed away last night. He was the ideal academic—curious, methodical, and concerned with turning ideas into real-world change. TAing his parking course these past few years has one of the greatest honors of my life. Rest in peace, Shoup Dogg.
February 8, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Reposted by Dan Frakes
Should go without saying but the point of diversity in hiring is to find _better_-qualified candidates outside of stagnant social networks that don't reward merit, like the kind of network that would put an MTV personality with a marketing degree in charge of the Department of Transportation
January 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM