Wow. What a year! We have had so much fun making The Outline, and we hope you have enjoyed reading it. Here's a look at our top-performing articles of the year.
1. The unbearable wrongness of Gwyneth Paltrow
People really love to read about why Gwyneth Paltrow is bad.
2. Apple is really bad at design
They also like to read about why Apple is bad.
3. Hollywood made a white version and a black version of the same movie
The similarities between summer films Rough Night and Girls Trip are remarkable. That is, except for the skin color of the leading cast.
4. Chiropractors are bullshit
Please do not entrust your spine to the care of a profession that is largely based in pseudoscience.
5. Leaked recording: Inside Apple’s global war on leakers
Besides being bad at design, Apple uses former NSA agents, secrecy members on product teams, and a screening apparatus bigger than the TSA to prevent information from leaking.
6. Programmers are confessing their coding sins to protest a broken job interview process
Not only are so-called “whiteboard interviews” are widely hated, they also discriminate against people who are already underrepresented in the field of computer programming.
7. David Avocado Wolfe is the biggest asshole in the multiverse
You’ve likely clicked on one of his ubiquitous Facebook posts. Here’s why you should close your tab on him right away.
8. The new MacBook keyboard is ruining my life
See No. 2.
9. Diet Coke is not killing you
Really great news for D.C. addicts everywhere.
10. The death of the internet
If net neutrality fails, everything we love about the internet will die.
Thank you for reading and please keep reading next year!