Tesla's Q2 delivery numbers came in down year-over-year but "beat" Wall Street's recently lowered estimates, which got me thinking about how that framing trick works everywhere in tech reporting.
Two months after Sonos shipped a broken app redesign, alarms still dont work right, and Im done pretending this was a modernization instead of a downgrade.
Wired's "bullshit machine" story on Perplexity got me checking my own server logs for scraper traffic, and I have complicated feelings about who gets to be outraged about content theft.
Six weeks into the Sonos app rewrite and my kitchen speakers still can't do things my 2016 setup could do without thinking. A rant, with a weird Nvidia tangent.
Forbes accused Perplexity AI of rewriting its Eric Schmidt drone-startup scoop almost word for word. As someone who's been putting words on the internet since 2011, I have thoughts.
Microsoft quietly walked back its Recall feature this week, making it opt-in and delaying the rollout after security researchers found it was storing screenshots of your PC in plain text.
Boeing's Starliner finally flew with a crew this week, and I spent launch day glued to NASA TV. But the helium leaks that showed up in flight are the part I can't stop thinking about.
Notes on watching Starship's fourth test flight live: a flap cooked itself in reentry, the ship kept flying anyway, and I still have complaints about Central time livestreams.
Starliner docked with the ISS today, an hour late and after some thruster trouble on approach. Notes on watching a genuinely big milestone get buried under bigger headlines.
Nvidia passed Apple to become the second most valuable company on earth today, and it ate up every headline. Meanwhile Boeing put two astronauts into orbit on Starliner's first crewed flight and almost nobody noticed.
Google's new AI Overviews told people to eat rocks and glue pizza together this week. I checked what it's doing to my own Search Console numbers instead of just laughing at the screenshots.
Sonos rebuilt its app from scratch in early May and stripped out sleep timers, reliable alarms, and queue management along the way. Two weeks in, I'm still annoyed.
