New Coke, Stranger Things, and the Weekend I Didn't Leave the Couch
Stranger Things 3 dropped all at once on the Fourth of July, and somehow the weirdest part of the weekend was drinking actual New Coke because Netflix and Coca-Cola told me to.
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Tech News
Slack Is Worth $20 Billion and Still Buries My Messages
Slack's direct listing made it a $20 billion company overnight, but that doesn't stop its threading and notification design from ruining my Tuesday nights.
Slack Skips the IPO, and My Free Tier Complaint
Slack's direct listing on the NYSE last Thursday was weirder and more interesting than a normal IPO, plus a longstanding gripe about the free tier's 10,000 message search cap.
Slack Went Public and Skipped the Usual Theater
Slack went public last week via a direct listing instead of a normal IPO, and it's got me thinking about pricing pops, and missing my old self-hosted IRC bouncer.
Google Wants to Change How My Ad Blocker Works
Google's Manifest V3 proposal is quietly reshaping how ad blockers work in Chrome, and after a week of reading GitHub threads and briefly re-trying Firefox, I've got some thoughts.
iTunes Is Dead, Long Live Three Separate Apps
Apple split iTunes into three apps at WWDC and handed syncing off to Finder. A look at what that actually means, plus a quick note on Stadia's freshly announced pricing.
You're Breathtaking Too: Watching the Xbox Briefing
Live reactions to Microsoft's Xbox E3 briefing, including the Keanu Reeves "you're breathtaking" moment during the Cyberpunk 2077 reveal and why Game Pass matters more than the Project Scarlett spec sheet.
The Stand Costs More Than My Whole Desk
Apple's WWDC keynote gave us the cheese-grater Mac Pro and a gorgeous new display, but the thing everybody's still laughing about five days later is the $999 stand you have to buy separately.
The Train of Lights in My Backyard
A personal account of watching SpaceX's first Starlink satellite train cross the night sky, plus some grumbling about what a few thousand more of them will do to stargazing.
Uber Posts a Billion-Dollar Loss and Nobody's Surprised
Uber's first earnings report as a public company showed a loss well over a billion dollars, and honestly nobody seemed surprised. A few thoughts on the numbers, the stock slide since IPO, and why surge pricing still bugs me more than the balance sheet does.
A Billion Dollar Loss and a Thirty Dollar Memory
Uber posted its first earnings report as a public company today, a billion-dollar quarterly loss, which got me thinking about the thirty-dollar black car rides I used to take back when this blog was new.
The Huawei Story Nobody's Talking About Is the Chips, Not the Apps
Everyone's fixated on Google cutting Huawei off from Android. The ARM news that broke today is quieter, weirder, and probably matters more.