Apple and IBM, of All Companies
Apple and IBM just announced a partnership, and it's stranger than the headlines make it sound once you remember IBM sold off its PC business years ago.
The Pi B+ and My Drawer of Now-Obsolete Cases
The Raspberry Pi Model B+ landed this week with four USB ports and a 40-pin GPIO header, and now I'm stuck deciding whether my drawer of old Model B cases and HATs is worth adapting or just abandoning.
I Filed My Net Neutrality Comment This Weekend and the FCC's Website Fought Me the Whole Way
A weekend spent wrestling with the FCC's comment form on the open internet proceeding, plus why "fast lanes" still sound like a terrible idea to me.
The Buffering Wheel Beat Argentina Too
A personal recap of watching the Germany-Argentina World Cup final on a borrowed WatchESPN login, complete with buffering wheels, a late pizza, and a complaint about the Golden Ball vote.
580,166 Tweets a Minute
Brazil's stunning 7-1 collapse against Germany did something wild to Twitter's servers, and the tech side of that meltdown turned out to be more interesting to me than the match itself.
The Internet Broke a Little During Brazil-Germany
Germany's 7-1 demolition of Brazil today didn't just break the host nation, it broke my Twitter timeline. Some notes on watching a historic collapse happen on two screens at once.
Getting Nothing Done During World Cup Week
A confession about how little work actually happened this week thanks to World Cup streams taking over the office, plus a small note on Google buying Songza.
"Poorly Communicated" Is Not an Apology
Sheryl Sandberg finally addressed the Facebook mood study by calling it "poorly communicated." That's not the same thing as an apology, and PNAS clearly had its own doubts too.
Google Buys Songza (Please Don't Kill It)
Google bought Songza this week to fold its mood-based playlists into Play Music, and I'm trying to be happy about it instead of bracing for another Reader-style shutdown.
Google Bought My Favorite Playlist App (And Now I'm Nervous)
Google just bought Songza, my go-to mood-playlist app, and I've got mixed feelings about what happens to human-curated playlists once a giant platform owns them.
Flashing the Android L Preview Onto My Nexus 5
Notes (and one big mistake) from flashing the freshly-released Android L Developer Preview onto my Nexus 5 the same week Google unveiled Material Design.
So Nest Just Bought Dropcam (Yes, The Camera Company)
Nest just bought Dropcam for $555 million in cash, which means Google now owns a camera company. Some thoughts on what that does to the whole "trust us" thing.