Cancelling Spotify (Sort Of)
After Neil Young's catalog got pulled from Spotify this week, I finally cancelled my own Premium subscription — and spent a weekend untangling eleven years of playlists to do it.
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Wordle Broke My Group Chat
My family group chat used to be about dogs and airport pickups. This week it's just rows of green and yellow squares, and I've finally figured out why.
The Little Green Squares Have Taken Over My Family Chat
The whole family group chat has turned into daily grids of green and yellow squares. Some notes on getting hooked on Wordle, colorblind mode, and the people who post their score before 9am.
Twelve Days Into My Wordle Habit
Twelve days into a daily word-guessing habit that's suddenly everywhere, some thoughts on starting words, spoiler etiquette, and why six guesses feels exactly right.
The Weekend I Didn't See Spider-Man
Two weeks into the Log4j mess and a third CVE later, I finally admit the patching is eating my whole holiday week, Spider-Man included.
How a Minecraft Bug Ate My Saturday
A weekend spent patching a home UniFi controller, a Minecraft server, and a forgotten Elasticsearch box after Log4Shell, plus some thoughts on how a Minecraft chat exploit turned into a federal cybersecurity directive.
How I Spent Black Friday Weekend (Hint: Not In A Store)
Skipped the Black Friday chaos this year and spent the long weekend in Halo Infinite's surprise-launched multiplayer instead. No regrets, mostly.
Twenty Years Later, My Feed Kept Scrolling
Twenty years since 9/11, and a morning spent noticing how strange it is that the internet just keeps scrolling right past a day like this one.
The Pipeline Hack Showed Up at My Gas Station
A ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline turned into gas station lines and grocery bags full of gasoline on my street, and it's got me thinking about how much better my backup plan for a dumb little blog is than theirs.
My Family Group Chat Has Officially Lost It Over Dogecoin
My family group chat turned into a crypto trading floor this week over Dogecoin's pre-SNL price surge, plus some notes on the surprisingly entertaining Epic v. Apple courtroom drama in Oakland.
Six Days, One Boat, Zero Graphics Cards
The Ever Given finally got unstuck from the Suez Canal, but that's done nothing for my six-month quest to buy a graphics card at anything close to sticker price.
Down the Suez Canal Rabbit Hole
A container ship got wedged sideways in the Suez Canal today and I lost the entire afternoon to ship-tracking websites instead of doing actual work.