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.
Feeding My Entire Blog Archive to GPT-4.1-nano
OpenAI quietly shipped GPT-4.1 and two smaller siblings straight to the API this week, so I spent an evening dumping fourteen years of this blog into the cheapest one just to see what a million-token context window is actually good for.
The Drawer of Dead Cables
A Sunday afternoon spent finally emptying the drawer of dead cables and dongles under the TV, and what eleven years of never throwing anything out actually looks like.
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.
Eighty Dollars for Mario Kart Broke Something in My Brain
Nintendo's Switch 2 Direct last week put real numbers on the table, $449.99 for the console and $79.99 for Mario Kart World, and I've been doing uncomfortable math ever since.
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.
My Ghibli Cat, and the Guilt That Came With It
Everyone turned their photos into Ghibli-style AI art this week, including me and my cat. Some thoughts on why that felt a little more complicated than fun.
Deleting My DNA From 23andMe Before Someone Else Owns It
23andMe filed for bankruptcy this week and state attorneys general are urging users to delete their genetic data before it changes hands. I finally did, and the process taught me more than I wanted to know.
The Best Part of Nvidia's Keynote Was a Fake Dog
Nvidia's GTC keynote this week had a two-year GPU roadmap and a $3,000 desktop AI computer, but the part I keep thinking about is the robot dog.
Vibe Coding From the Terminal, Three Weeks In
Three weeks into using terminal-based AI coding tools like Claude Code and Cursor, some real notes on what works, what's overhyped, and the one habit that's saved me from a bad diff more than once.