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Perplexity Wants You to Stop Browsing and Start Delegating

Perplexity's new Comet browser went out to Max subscribers this week, and its whole pitch is that you shouldnt have to click around the web yourself anymore. Im not sure Im ready for that.

July 11, 2025·4 min read

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Spent the Day Before the Long Weekend Cleaning Out My Digital Attic

A long weekend nudged me into finally testing my backups and redeploying a dead side project instead of writing about the week's big tech story.

July 3, 2025·4 min read

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Three Weeks Into the iOS 26 Beta and My Control Center Is Still Unreadable

Three weeks of daily-driving the iOS 26 developer beta later, some notes on Liquid Glass, the weird new year-based version numbers, and why my Control Center still looks like a smudged window.

July 1, 2025·4 min read

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The F1 Movie Is a Two-Hour Ad for a Camera Apple Didn't Even Make

Went to see Apple's F1 movie in IMAX opening weekend and came out thinking more about the camera rigs than the plot, plus a small rant about my own Apple TV+ hypocrisy.

June 29, 2025·4 min read

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The Guy In the Passenger Seat

Tesla's Austin robotaxi launch had a human safety monitor riding in the passenger seat the whole time, which says more about the actual state of the tech than the press coverage did.

June 23, 2025·3 min read

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A Weekend Fixing Twelve Years of Bad Image Habits With Claude Code

A weekend spent finally using Claude Code to clean up twelve years of unoptimized blog images, and the one lesson about scoping tasks narrowly that I keep having to relearn.

June 22, 2025·4 min read

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The Afternoon Spotify and Discord Went Down

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.

June 14, 2025·3 min read

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Nobody Was Driving That Car

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.

June 12, 2025·4 min read

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Silksong Showed Up Again and I Still Don't Trust It

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.

June 8, 2025·3 min read

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Elon Threatened to Strand the Astronauts, Then Deleted the Tweet

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.

June 6, 2025·3 min read

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The $250 Line Item Nobody Asked For

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.

May 20, 2025·3 min read

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I Did Not Win the Switch 2 Preorder Lottery

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.

May 12, 2025·4 min read