Little Charlie was born under an unlucky star, and though he wasn’t so little anymore, he did indeed come into the world at night. The moon was surprisingly...

Before Denis Villeneuve brought the world of Dune to the big screen, before Frank Herbert wrote his famous book, there was another book called Erewhon,...

Every app that lets you post to the various twitters these days has useful tools for composing threads: you know, those chains of posts linked to one...

ALT: Nathan Fielder's 'Hungry For Nothing' Prank

The Audio Intelligence part of Apple’s latest presentation gave me the ick. Apple has published a privacy overview, but privacy isn’t really what rubs me the...

The repurposing of Pokémon Go data for AI training continues to draw scrutiny.

I’ve always been a folder guy, not a tag guy. Tag-based organization has never stuck with me, not in Bear, Obsidian, or iA Writer. I understand the appeal,...

ALT: Excited Baby Yelling 'YESSSSSSS!!'

I wonder what came first: did social media algorithms train us to become more radical in our opinions, or are they simply reflecting something that was...

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The box-office performance of Spider-Man: Brand New Day shows that I miscalculated: spandex is still as trendy as it was a decade ago. The disinterest in...

I vibeported Daymark to Obsidian, and it's live in the community directory now: If you use daily notes in Obsidian and think that the calendar plugin for...

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Privacy and compliance theatre, with its endless acts and elaborate productions, is getting exhausting, to be honest. The latest performance comes courtesy...

I remember how it all started. Adding friends as connections on a new social network felt great in a disconnected world. Getting life updates and photos and...

ALT: Somebody Get These Beggars Out Of Here

The error came to light while lawyers were working on his appeal.

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When you vibe-code an app, you constantly ask yourself (or at least I do) - if all the code is written by machines, what exactly do I bring to the table?...

Building plugins and extensions for your application is a slippery slope that can easily lead to feature creep (looking at you, Notion). So instead of trying...

Earlier this year, I also took part in a flash fiction challenge. Just like with the 100-word challenge, I didn’t make it to the second round. But this time,...

Fastmail, the leading independent email provider, has announced the launch of a dedicated European data centre in Amsterdam, giving customers the option to have the primary copy of their data stored w...

Dear Apple, Apple Watch is a great fitness device. Sure, the battery could be better, and music management still needs work, but I use it for every run....

For all the hype and controversy around AI, I keep coming back to a simple thought: AI is still software. A machine. Not as deterministic as I’d like it to...

We live in a world where it’s very easy — and getting increasingly easier — to find information. You don’t understand something in a TV show? Go online,...