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.
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.
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 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.
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.
A personal rant about missing out on the Nintendo Switch 2 preorder lottery, and what the tariff-driven pricing saga actually says about Nintendo's strategy.
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's first 27 production Kuiper satellites finally launched this week, but the real story is a looming FCC deadline, not a Starlink rivalry.
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.
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.
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.
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.
