Starship Got To Space This Time (Before It Blew Up)
SpaceX's second Starship test flight on Saturday made it to space before both stages were lost — notes from watching the livestream at 7am with bad coffee.
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I Dumped 12 Years of This Blog Into GPT-4 Turbo's New Context Window
After OpenAI's DevDay announcements this week, I tried feeding two years of this blog's archive into the new 128k-token GPT-4 Turbo just to see what would happen to my API bill.
Watching the Epic v. Google Trial Instead of the OpenAI Livestream
While everyone's covering OpenAI's DevDay, I'm watching the Epic v. Google Play Store trial that started this week, and thinking about the 30% cut I used to pay Google on my own dumb little Android app.
The MacBook Pro Is Black Again, Sort Of
Apple's new Space Black MacBook Pro finish has me thinking about my old plastic black MacBook from 2007, and whether this one will actually resist fingerprints like they claim.
The Cheap MacBook Pro Isn't Really a Pro Anymore
Apple's new M3 MacBook Pro lineup landed this week, but the $1599 base model quietly ships with last-generation display tech and the same 8GB of memory it had in 2020.
Stack Overflow's Layoffs and Where All the Questions Went
Stack Overflow just laid off around 28% of its staff, and my own browser history explains exactly why: I barely use the site anymore now that Copilot and ChatGPT answer things inline.
A Few Days With the Quest 3 (and the Strap That's Still Bugging Me)
A few days in with the new Meta Quest 3, why the passthrough finally feels real, and why I'm still annoyed the good strap costs extra.
Nobody Hacked 23andMe, Somebody Just Reused a Password
The 23andMe breach making the rounds this week wasn't some elaborate hack, it was reused passwords plus a relative-matching feature that quietly widened the damage to people who did nothing wrong.
The Blast Radius of a Reused Password
23andMe's newly confirmed breach wasn't a database hack, it was credential stuffing amplified by the DNA Relatives feature, turning a few thousand weak passwords into millions of exposed profiles.
My iPhone 15 Pro Turned Into a Hand Warmer, and Apple Finally Fixed It
Apple shipped iOS 17.0.3 this week to fix the iPhone 15 Pro overheating problem, and I can confirm it was a real thing, not just Twitter noise.
Eleven Lightning Cables and a Kitchen Drawer
The iPhone 15 finally ditched Lightning for USB-C after eleven years, and my kitchen drawer full of dead cables is proof of how overdue it was.
Arm Goes Public, and I Finally Notice the Chip in Everything
Arm went public last week with a huge IPO pop, which got me thinking about how invisible this company is despite being in nearly every device I own.