The Car Had an Alibi
The Cybertruck explosion in Las Vegas got solved in a day thanks to remote vehicle telemetry, and that's a lot more interesting (and unsettling) than the headlines let on.
Nineteen Days on TikTok's Clock
A personal, skeptical look at TikTok's January 19th divestment deadline, the upcoming Supreme Court arguments, and what fifteen years of watching platforms die has taught me about betting on deadlines.
The ThinkPad Gets a Second Life as a Chatbot
I spent part of the holiday break getting a local chatbot running on a six-year-old ThinkPad, and it actually works well enough that I've mostly stopped opening ChatGPT.
Finally Switched to Bluesky (Two Months Late)
A personal, late-December account of finally abandoning X for Bluesky, mid platform-migration, complete with radiator complaints and starter-pack side-eye.
Fixing My Bluesky Feed So It Stops Sucking
A practical walkthrough of the custom feeds, starter packs, and mute settings that finally made my Bluesky timeline worth opening every morning.
The Sora Leak Nobody Asked Permission For
Artists with early Sora access leaked the tool on Hugging Face days before OpenAI's official launch, and my own first attempts at generating video left me underwhelmed anyway.
A Photo That Turns Into a World You Can Walk Into
Google DeepMind's Genie 2 turns a single still image into a playable, walkable 3D world for about a minute at a time, and it left me more unsettled than impressed.
I Spent Sunday Night Wiring Claude Up To My Own Files
Anthropic quietly shipped a new open protocol last week for hooking AI assistants up to your local files and apps. I tried it on Claude Desktop and it mostly worked, after some JSON wrangling.
Why I Finally Deleted the Twitter App
A personal note on finally ditching the Twitter app for Bluesky during the post-election migration wave, and what actually made it stick this time.
Bluesky Finally Stuck for Me, and I Think It's the Starter Packs
Ive tried Bluesky three separate times since 2023 and bounced every time. The post-election exodus off X finally made it stick, and I think Starter Packs are the actual reason why.
Everyone I Know Just Rejoined Bluesky
A week after the election, Bluesky is suddenly full of people who swore they'd never leave X. Some notes on signing back in, starter packs, and why this exodus feels different from the Mastodon one.
Rebuilding My Feed on Bluesky, One Bridge Extension at a Time
A late-week scramble to rebuild a decade of Twitter follows on Bluesky using a browser extension, plus thoughts on custom feeds and why I'm not deleting the old account.