Clocks Back, Kindle Regrets Avoided
Clocks fell back, I dodged a defective Kindle Colorsoft by a week, and ChatGPT's new search feature actually got something right for once.
My Colorsoft Has the Yellow Screen Thing Too
My new Kindle Colorsoft arrived this week and it's great, except for the yellow tint a lot of early units (including mine, faintly) seem to have along the bottom of the screen.
The Wayback Machine Outage Freaked Me Out More Than It Should Have
After the Internet Archive's October breach and DDoS attacks knocked the Wayback Machine offline, I went looking for a dead link in a 2013 post and finally got serious about backing up my own site.
The New Mac Mini's Power Button Is On the Bottom and I Have Thoughts
Apple redesigned the Mac mini and it looks great, runs fast for $599 - but they put the power button on the bottom of the thing, and I cannot get over it.
Amazon's Color Kindle Is Late to a Party Kobo Already Started
Amazon's new Colorsoft Kindle ships October 30th at $279.99, but Kobo's Libra Colour beat it to shelves a month ago for less money.
Giving an AI the Mouse
Anthropic's new "computer use" beta lets an AI move your mouse and click around your actual desktop, and it's giving me flashbacks to a very bad AutoHotkey script from 2013.
Geoffrey Hinton Won a Nobel and It's Weirder Than It Sounds
Geoffrey Hinton just won the Nobel Prize in Physics for the neural network work he now spends most of his public life warning people about, and that contradiction is the whole story.
Running Llama 3.2 on My Laptop (And Nearly Cooking It)
I got Meta's small Llama 3.2 model running locally with Ollama, roasted my fanless MacBook Air in the process, and thought about whether a cheap VPS would be a saner place to run it.
The Booster Catch, Watched Through a Buffering Stream
Watching SpaceX catch the Super Heavy booster with the launch tower's arms yesterday, buffering livestream and all, and why the no-legs decision is the sane engineering call, not the crazy one.
Watching a Rocket Get Caught by Chopsticks Before My Coffee Went Cold
I watched SpaceX catch a Starship booster with giant mechanical arms this morning and let my coffee go stone cold in the process.
A Weekend With OpenAI's Realtime API
I spent the weekend hooking my home voice assistant project into OpenAI's new Realtime API from DevDay, and it's fast, a little unsettling, and not cheap.
I Preordered the Color Kindle
I preordered Amazon's new color-screen Kindle Colorsoft for $279.99 and have complicated feelings about the price, the color, and eight years of "almost here" E Ink promises.