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I Almost Bought the Thinnest iPhone Ever

A personal, slightly grumpy take on iPhone 17 preorder week: why I skipped the ultra-thin iPhone Air's single camera and no-SIM-tray design for the boring Pro instead.

September 17, 2025·3 min read

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The iPhone Air Killed the SIM Tray and My Brain Went Straight to Bendgate

The iPhone Air ditches the SIM tray entirely and Apple's thinnest phone ever has me thinking about Bendgate again, plus AirPods Pro 3's live translation might be the real story of the week.

September 10, 2025·4 min read

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The Pixel 10 Has Magnets Now, and That's the Only Reason I Care

The Pixel 10 went on sale over Labor Day weekend, and the only feature that actually got me was Pixelsnap, Google's new built-in magnetic charging.

September 2, 2025·4 min read

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Google Glued the Battery In and Called It Progress

The Pixel 10 launch got all the headlines, but the detail that actually stuck with me was iFixit's Pixel Watch 4 teardown and Google's own warning not to open the back cover yourself.

August 30, 2025·4 min read

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Musk Sues Apple Again, and Nobody Is Surprised

xAI filed suit against Apple and OpenAI this week over App Store rankings. Fourteen years of watching app charts move around tells me this complaint isn't as crazy as the messenger makes it sound.

August 28, 2025·3 min read

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Google's New Watch Is Basically Glued Shut

Google's Pixel 10 launch got all the headlines this week, but the detail that stuck with me was the Pixel Watch 4's glued-shut, basically unrepairable battery.

August 22, 2025·4 min read

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Perplexity's $34.5 Billion Bid for a Browser That Isn't for Sale

Perplexity offered Google $34.5 billion for Chrome, a browser that isn't for sale, from a company worth less than its own bid. Some thoughts on the stunt, and on the GPT-5 week it got buried under.

August 16, 2025·3 min read

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Perplexity Wants to Buy Chrome, and I Cannot Stop Laughing

Perplexity made an unsolicited $34.5 billion offer for Chrome this week. It's a wild number from a company worth a fraction of that, and I have thoughts.

August 14, 2025·4 min read

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Perplexity's Absurd $34.5 Billion Chrome Bid

Perplexity AI says it wants to buy Chrome for $34.5 billion, which is more than the entire company is worth. I have thoughts.

August 13, 2025·3 min read

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An Evening With Claude Opus 4.1

A late-night test of Anthropic's new Opus 4.1 model, fixing a years-old RSS scraper script, and a small complaint about AI naming schemes.

August 6, 2025·3 min read

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The Bot Wearing a Trench Coat

Cloudflare accused Perplexity of dodging robots.txt blocks with spoofed browser signatures, and it's got me digging through my own server logs wondering what's actually crawling this blog.

August 5, 2025·3 min read

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The Silicon Heartland Just Got Smaller

Intel's Q2 earnings call confirmed deeper layoffs and pushed Ohio fab completion out to the early 2030s, even as the stock rose on the news. A look at the gap between the 2022 groundbreaking hype and where things actually stand.

July 26, 2025·4 min read