Personal
Writing this during a California heat wave and nonstop Flex Alerts, with some thoughts on the irony of being asked not to charge EVs two weeks after the state announced its 2035 gas car ban.
September 5, 2022 · 3 min read
Tech News
NASA scrubbed the second Artemis I launch attempt today over a hydrogen leak, and I cleared my whole morning to watch it not happen.
September 3, 2022 · 4 min read
Personal
California banned new gas car sales by 2035, then days later asked everyone not to charge their EVs during a brutal heat wave. Some thoughts on the whiplash.
September 2, 2022 · 3 min read
Tech News
NASA scrubbed the first Artemis I launch attempt on August 29 over a stubborn engine sensor, so here's what three hours of couch-watching and some very rough per-launch cost math felt like.
August 31, 2022 · 4 min read
Tech News
Nvidia's latest earnings show gaming GPU revenue cratering, and after two years of scalped prices, that's actually good news for anyone trying to buy a graphics card.
August 25, 2022 · 4 min read
Tutorials
Apple's iOS 15.6.1 patched two zero-days already being exploited in the wild, no clicks required. Here's how I finally set every device I own to update itself without me having to remember.
August 23, 2022 · 4 min read
Tech News
Signal disclosed today that the Twilio phishing breach exposed around 1,900 users' phone numbers, which got me ranting about why SMS verification is still load-bearing for so much of our security.
August 15, 2022 · 3 min read
Tutorials
Three weeks into the iOS 16 and iPadOS 16 public betas: lock screen widgets are better than I expected, Stage Manager is still fighting me, and passkeys are almost here.
August 8, 2022 · 3 min read
Tech News
Twilio disclosed today that a fake IT text message was all it took to phish employee credentials and get at customer data. A look at why the boring attacks keep working, and why I'm finally ditching SMS codes on my own accounts.
August 7, 2022 · 4 min read
Tech News
Google pushed the third-party cookie phaseout in Chrome back again, this time to late 2024. A rundown of why, plus why I don't quite believe the new date either.
July 28, 2022 · 4 min read
Tech News
Instagram's push toward a TikTok-style algorithmic feed sparked a very online backlash this week, complete with Kardashian-approved protest graphics and a sudden BeReal obsession.
July 26, 2022 · 4 min read
Tech News
A record UK heat wave took down parts of Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud's London data centers this week, and it's a good reminder that "the cloud" is just a building with a thermostat.
July 20, 2022 · 4 min read