Talking to My Phone Like It's a Person Now
Advanced Voice Mode finally hit my ChatGPT app this week — first impressions from a morning of talking to it while making coffee, plus the one big thing it still can't do.
iOS 18's Photos App Redesign Is Not It
A few days into iOS 18, the new Photos app redesign is driving me up the wall even though RCS finally showing up for green-bubble texts almost makes up for it.
The Spacewalk Nobody Built An Airlock For
SpaceX's Polaris Dawn crew did the first commercial spacewalk today, and Crew Dragon doesn't even have an airlock. Some notes from watching the livestream instead of working.
The Ad Tech Trial Nobody Watched This Week
While everyone was watching Apple's iPhone 16 event, the DOJ's ad tech antitrust trial against Google quietly opened in a Virginia courtroom, and the plumbing it's exposing is wilder than another camera bump.
The AirPods Feature Nobody's Talking About
Apple's September 9th event invite dropped this week, but the part actually worth talking about is the AirPods Pro 2 hearing aid feature buried underneath it.
Cleaning Out the Drafts Folder
A Labor Day spent cleaning out a decade of abandoned blog drafts, plus some scattered thoughts on Apple's "Glowtime" invite and the astronauts still stuck up on the ISS.
A $30 Billion Quarter and My Sad Little 3060
Nvidia posted a $30 billion quarter this week, and all it did was make me feel worse about the frame rate on my three-year-old GPU while playing Black Myth: Wukong.
A Day With the Pixel 9 Pro
A day-one hands-on with the Pixel 9 Pro that went on sale this week: the price jump, the flat sides I actually like, and why "Add Me" is a better party trick than I expected.
So About My Melting 13900K
My 13900K started randomly crashing this year, and it turns out I'm not alone — here's where the Intel 13th/14th gen instability mess actually stands right now.
Preordered a Pixel, Now Having Feelings About It
A Pixel 9 Pro preorder, a friend's layoff-season joke about "meeting math," and some overdue honesty about my yearly upgrade compulsion.
Intel's Bad Tuesday and Cisco's Rerun
Intel's brutal stock drop and Cisco's second layoff round of the year landed in the same two weeks, and the spreadsheet I've been keeping just got two uglier rows.
The Pixel 9's Best New Feature Is Also Kind of a Lie
Google's new "Add Me" feature on the Pixel 9 lets you photoshop yourself into your own group photos. It's exactly what I wanted for a decade, and also a little unsettling.