The Tudum Layoffs Tell You More Than the Earnings Call Did
Netflix quietly laid off about 150 people this week, mostly from its Tudum fan site, and it says more about the end of the growth era than any earnings call did.
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The iPod Died and Nobody Even Blinked
Apple quietly discontinued the iPod touch, the last iPod model, via a one-paragraph press release. A look back at click wheels, FireWire cables, and why nobody seemed to notice.
Google Made a Watch. They Just Wont Say What It Costs.
Google finally announced its own smartwatch at I/O this week, but skipped the price and release date. A few thoughts from someone who has owned every ill-fated smartwatch since the original Pebble.
Google Made a Watch. I've Seen This Movie Before.
Google finally announced a Pixel Watch at I/O this week, and given the graveyard of products I've watched Google bury since 2011, forgive me for not preordering yet.
The Period Tracker Panic of This Week
After the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion this week, period-tracking apps like Flo and Clue suddenly became a privacy flashpoint, and the reasons why arent actually new.
Amazon Lost Money Because of a Truck Company
Amazon posted its first quarterly net loss since 2015, but the real culprit wasn't retail — it was a multi-billion dollar markdown on its Rivian stock stake.
$54.20 a Share, and Yes, That's the Joke
Everyone's talking about Musk buying Twitter for $44 billion, but almost nobody's talking about the fact that the per-share price is a weed joke he's used before, and that should worry Twitter's lawyers more than its users.
The GitHub OAuth Mess and My Broken Heroku Pipeline
GitHub disclosed that stolen OAuth tokens tied to Heroku and Travis-CI let an attacker pull data from dozens of orgs, including npm - and it broke my deploy pipeline in the process.
Fifty-Five Million Dollars a Seat: Some Thoughts on Ax-1
Four private citizens are floating around the ISS right now after Axiom's Ax-1 mission, and I can't stop doing the math on what a $55 million ticket actually buys you.
Watching Four Guys Fly to the ISS Before My Coffee Was Ready
I got up at 6am to watch Axiom's Ax-1 launch, the first fully private crewed flight to the ISS, and ended up thinking more about the recycled Crew Dragon capsule than the $55 million price tag.
Watching Four Non-Astronauts Launch to the ISS This Morning
Four guys, only one of them a career astronaut, launched to the ISS this morning on a reused Crew Dragon capsule. Some thoughts on watching it live and what it actually means.
Two Months Is a Long Time to Sit on a Breach
Okta finally explained the Lapsus$ screenshots that went around last week, and the timeline shows they knew about the incident two months before anyone outside the company did.