The Guy In the Passenger Seat
Tesla's Austin robotaxi launch had a human safety monitor riding in the passenger seat the whole time, which says more about the actual state of the tech than the press coverage did.
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The Afternoon Spotify and Discord Went Down
A big Google Cloud outage on June 12th took down Spotify, Discord and a bunch of other apps for a few hours — some notes on what it's like to lose your background noise mid-workday, and how the story got buried under WWDC coverage.
Nobody Was Driving That Car
A handful of Waymo robotaxis got torched during the LA protests this week, and the weirdest part isn't the fire, it's how naturally an empty self-driving car became a political symbol.
Silksong Showed Up Again and I Still Don't Trust It
Watching the Xbox Games Showcase from a work tab, a Silksong trailer I still don't trust, and a case against sponsor breaks in game reveals.
Elon Threatened to Strand the Astronauts, Then Deleted the Tweet
Elon Musk threatened to decommission the SpaceX Dragon capsule NASA uses to reach the ISS during his blowup with Trump, then quietly deleted the tweet hours later.
The $250 Line Item Nobody Asked For
Google I/O dropped a $249.99/month AI Ultra tier today, and thats a weirder story than any single feature they announced alongside it.
The Skype Ringtone Is Gone For Good
Microsoft actually shut Skype down this week, and going through old blog-era Skype history turned out to be more of a gut punch than expected.
Amazon Finally Got Kuiper Off The Ground
Amazon's first 27 production Kuiper satellites finally launched this week, but the real story is a looming FCC deadline, not a Starlink rivalry.
Surviving the Switch 2 Preorder Scramble
A firsthand account of the Nintendo Switch 2 preorder chaos on April 24th, from tariff-driven delays to a GameStop site that just fell over.
Setting an Alarm for a Video Game
Nintendo Switch 2 preorders open tomorrow after tariff chaos delayed them by two weeks, and I'm annoyed at how normal it feels to plan my morning around a refresh button.
Nintendo Just Punted My Switch 2 Preorder to "Later"
Nintendo was supposed to open US preorders for the Switch 2 today. Instead they punted, citing tariffs, and I'm annoyed in a very specific and personal way.
A Weekend Rebuilding My Invoice Script With Gemini 2.5 Pro
A weekend spent rebuilding an invoice script three ways to actually test Gemini 2.5 Pro against Claude, plus a note on DeepSeek's quiet open-weights update.