Similarly, mass spying will change the nature of spying. All the data will be saved. It will all be searchable, and understandable, in bulk. Tell me who has talked about a particular topic in the past month, and how discussions about that topic have evolved. Person A did somethin … | Continue reading
Chrome’s hardware requirements to run the Gemini nano. I’d totally forgotten that this was shipping starting Chrome 138. I am so curious about the 22GB available space requirements on the volume that contains the chrome profile. | Continue reading
The biggest story on US twitter being an app leaking all of it’s users ID’s while in the UK it’s the government rolling out ID verification to access the internet and claiming it’s perfectly safe — Adam Wren (@G0ADM) July 25, 2025 | Continue reading
Here’s what I’ve learned from watching India work its magic: The mental moves that make pluralism possible aren’t mystical—they’re learnable. Think of them as cognitive tools: The And/And Instead of Either/Or: When faced with contradictions, resist the Western urge to resolve the … | Continue reading
ICYMI, the first version was even more delightful | Continue reading
Some researchers think our love of uncertainty might be why we enjoy music. We anticipate patterns in the melody, and when the song does something slightly unexpected – boom, dopamine city. Why Your Brain Gets High on Uncertainty While it’s true that anxiety is worrying about the … | Continue reading
I’m pretty sure that if you were to interview one of the designers at Apple responsible for this icon devolution, they would say something about reducing icons to their essence. To me, this looks more like squeezing all life out of them. Icons in Mac OS X used to be inventive, we … | Continue reading
https://collabfund.com/blog/very-bad-advice This entire post is worth reading. Each line is worth considering, reflecting and then realizing that there are irrational things you might still be doing. Pursue status at the expense of independence. This was a hard learned lesson. I … | Continue reading
Check out the video – this thing is beautifully engineered with maximum repairability and excellent ID. I am seriously considering this at this point whenever I have to replace my phone – which is increasingly becoming the device that I want to use – less and less. | Continue reading
I have to keep reminding myself of this chart every often when I go down the rabbit holes. | Continue reading
The fact I’m feeling any relief looking at Android’s UI is not a great sign. But then I scroll something behind the glass button that looks amazing and I want them to stick with this glass effect forever. … “Liquid glass has some trade-offs but when it hits, it’s really fucking r … | Continue reading
But there’s one nagging feeling I have about reinterpreting beloved things, which is that before anyone attempts to do it, they must first seek to understand why it is beloved. It is only through understanding it that anyone can do the job well. Rose-Gold-Tinted Liquid Glasses It … | Continue reading
But some people out there are consumed by their constant complaining. And it’s infectious. The more you complain the more you find and see things worth complaining about. And that’s not healthy. It’s not healthy for them, it’s not healthy for the people around them. I can’t pay y … | Continue reading
Nobody but you can decide how much you care about your career. Or how much you like your employer, colleagues, or industry. Not everything is in your control, even in a field like software engineering where autonomy and flexibility are widely available. I recommend you choose one … | Continue reading
Unlike on macOS Sequoia and earlier versions, the first macOS Tahoe beta does not include a FireWire section in the System Settings app. Of course, this could all end up being a false alarm. It is still early in the macOS Tahoe beta testing cycle, and FireWire support could retur … | Continue reading
#A pleasant surprise that came from me switching to Linux is inspiring my own father to do the same. After telling my parents about my transition to Linux during lunch one day, my father got inspired to switch from Windows and Linux as well. My father is tech-savvy, though he is … | Continue reading
This was such a boneheaded marketing decision on Apple’s part. They cost themselves way more in goodwill and trust than they possibly could have earned in additional F1 The Movie — wait, sorry, my bad, F1® The Movie — box office ticket sales. It’s like Apple got paid to exemplify … | Continue reading
Luvvie spoke to me about raising kids to be “good troublemakers,” and reminding us that children push boundaries or rebel, so their mistakes sometimes come from the best of intentions. She also spoke so thoughtfully about reframing mistakes as lessons that have yet to be learned. … | Continue reading
Sony seems to have taken notice that Fuji and Leica seem to be the only players in the fixed lens premium segment. And let’s be real, Fuji basically is the only player. This makes me question the starting price of the RX1 RIII. You might as well get a Leica Q3 at that price. Howe … | Continue reading
Saying no is a superpower. Saying yes when you want to say no and then over explain is unhealthy. When you want to say, follow a simple pattern – Appreciation + the no + well wishes. This has yielded some great results for me in life. | Continue reading
This is an onerous process to get the picture looking good on the Nintendo Switch 2. However, once you’ve figured out what’s going on, it does make sense. Complicated, but it makes sense. Good luck. | Continue reading
Reliance Jio, famous for dramatically lowering India’s notoriously high cellular pricing by rolling out free 4G connectivity across the country is back. Jio is rolling out a “free” PC to every home through its broadband. It’s a cloud hosted PC that’s available with a broadband co … | Continue reading
Taught my son how to context engineer a couple days ago. He’s been wanting to build a game for a while and was finding scratch to be a frustrating experience unable to translate his thoughts and words into a game that he wanted to make. Enter Gemini. 3 days and multiple versions … | Continue reading
The addiction to traffic and impressions-based advertising has been an Achilles’ heel of the media establishment. It is hard for them to look at the world through the lens of engagement. The rise of “chat-based” informational interfaces is yet another victory for engagement-trump … | Continue reading
When we work and live in a physical space that we control, we tend to evolve it to suit our own needs. As Stewart Brand writes in his book How Buildings Learn: “Age plus adaptivity is what makes a building come to be loved. The building learns from its occupants, and they learn f … | Continue reading
The biggest shock came early, with the realization that I finally have the energy to enjoy mundane things. Tasks like cleaning the house, or doing the dishes, are no longer so terrible. It’s difficult to overstate how much of my energy was wasted by simply using these devices – a … | Continue reading
Turns out, Comet Assistant hallucinated and entered completely wrong dates, later telling me that the dates I wanted were booked, but still wanted to have me complete the check-out anyways. I had to tell the AI agent that the dates were non-negotiable, and asked it to find anothe … | Continue reading
Expect enclosure; expect a few big winners; expect advertising, with all the attention-hacking that will demand. Expect, also, that writers will continue to mold their work to fit Substack’s particular ecology, rather than “merely” use the tools to pursue their independent vision … | Continue reading
Today’s updated bit of data is less scientific than the last time, but I ran the same tests one a few browsers again over the past few days, keeping every variable the same except for the browser in use: this time testing Zen, Arc, and Safari. This is the macOS Tahoe beta, so not … | Continue reading
Weekly Link out Louds – are links that I found fascinating and took notes on. Sharing so that you might enjoy / find them valuable too | Continue reading
Why make the change? If you’re accidentally giving a negative impression, very few people will tell you. Given that, I think it’s worth at least trying to say “but yes” for a while. Pay close attention to how it changes the tenor of your interactions (or just ask a colleague whet … | Continue reading
But recently, I noticed, that other aspects of my brain also improved. My book comprehension improved tremendously. The phone always occupied some part of my mind, because I was always ready to just check this one thing. When I cut it out, I am present in the book. Re-reading hal … | Continue reading
To me, modern UI isn’t getting out of the way, it’s often asserting itself over the content it claims to get out of the way of. The whole narrative here is bogus. Going back to when UI was more visually separated from something like your photos, that puts the focus on the photos, … | Continue reading
It feels like everyone (or at least those in my bubble) is consumed by the “how” of note-taking. Tools, workflows, processes, backlinks, and on and on. Obsidian? Roam? Paper? It’s fun to explore and interesting to read about and there is no end of things to distract myself with. … | Continue reading
https://kottke.org/25/05/i-want-no-one-else-to-succeed Delightful little read on why greed hurts the world. | Continue reading
One day Gumroad is a symbol of independence. The next, it’s toxic. So what then—Stripe? Square? MyPillow? Ok, I went too far, that dude and his stupid pillow need to go away for good. What’s the exit strategy when every platform, store, app, whatever eventually fails our purity t … | Continue reading
Here’s the list, prefixed by the year that these features shipped to stable in Chromium: 2023: WebGPU2020: SVG Favicons2023: HDR Images2024: CSS Anchor Positioning2023: CSS text-wrap: pretty2025: CSS progress() function2023: Scroll-driven Animations (finally!!!)2020: Trusted Type … | Continue reading
Steven Levy has one of the best reads of this week: How Steve Jobs Wrote the Greatest Commencement Speech Ever. People might disagree, but it moved me when I first heard. I wish I’d heard it during my own graduation in 2005. But, I first listened to this in 2006 after Google acqu … | Continue reading
Mark Levoy and Florian Kainz of Adobe released their 5 year project to provide the next step change in computational photography. It’s a (definitely) beta app for iOS called Project Indigo. Mark Levoy is credited with the computational photography tricks that made Pixel the best … | Continue reading
Weekly LoLs are articles that were great and I jotted notes about them. I am sharing them as a summary here so you can also follow them and read them. | Continue reading
Google’s released a new website – Weather Lab – that leverages AI to predict hurricanes and track their path. As a weather nerd, this is fascinating and right up my alley. | Continue reading
No matter how seriously sick one may be, for example, one’s life is still 100% life. Even if we are dying, our life is still 100% life. Even if we are in prison, our life is still 100% life. There is no such thing as a 50% life or a 70% life. Each moment is […] | Continue reading
Disk images have been valuable tools marred by poor performance. In the wrong circumstances, an encrypted sparse image (UDSP) stored on the blazingly fast internal SSD of an Apple silicon Mac may write files no faster than 100 MB/s, typical for a cheap hard drive. One of the impo … | Continue reading
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Personally, this is still the most exciting part of the announcements from WWDC ’25. I am genuinely excited about what this might mean to replace my desktop Mac into a proper server that can run some of the utilities I currently put on a home server at a much lower power profile … | Continue reading
But I’ve been the first responder on an incident and fed 4o — not o4-mini, 4o — log transcripts, and watched it in seconds spot LVM metadata corruption issues on a host we’ve been complaining about for months. Am I better than an LLM agent at interrogating OpenSearch logs and Hon … | Continue reading
Free Bird is one of my favorite songs. The video feels a little forced though. I do appreciate the sentiment as someone pushing the times myself. 🙂 | Continue reading