Google Swears Off Cookies (For Now)
Google says it won't replace third-party cookies with a new tracking ID once they're gone from Chrome. Here's why I'm not exactly celebrating.
Patching Somebody Else's Exchange Server at 1am
A late-night emergency call to patch a client's on-prem Exchange server against the Hafnium zero-days turns into a rant about why small offices are still running mail servers in closets.
Three Months Into the M1 Switch: What Still Doesn't Work
A three-month check-in on daily driving an M1 MacBook Air: what's genuinely fast now, and which dev tools (Homebrew, Docker, Python builds) still need the Rosetta workaround.
The Texas Freeze Just Made My Graphics Card Hunt Even Worse
The winter storm that knocked out Texas chip fabs a week and a half ago is still rippling outward, and it's landing right on top of an already brutal GPU and console shortage.
Watching Perseverance Land From My Kitchen Table
A personal, kitchen-table account of watching NASA's Perseverance rover land on Mars live yesterday afternoon, seven terrifying minutes and all.
A Week Inside the Clubhouse Invite Economy
Notes from a first week inside Clubhouse's invite-only audio rooms, plus how a Monday Tesla Bitcoin filing turned half the app into a crypto discussion by dinnertime.
That Five-Second Reddit Ad
Reddit's five-second, no-budget Super Bowl LV ad quietly outshined every $5.5 million commercial in the break, and I can't stop thinking about why it worked.
Three Weeks Into the Great Signal Switch
Three and a half weeks after ditching WhatsApp for Signal, here's the unglamorous reality: no import tool, half your contacts won't switch, and you end up running both apps anyway.
The Discord Ban Nobody Believed the Timing On
Discord quietly banned the WallStreetBets server the day before Robinhood restricted GameStop trading, and the coincidental timing did more damage than either company's actual explanation.
The Best Earnings Report Nobody Watched This Week
Apple posted the biggest quarter in its history on Wednesday and almost nobody noticed, because the entire internet was busy staring at GameStop.
A Judge Tells Parler What Everybody Already Knew
A federal judge denied Parler's bid to force AWS back into hosting it, and it's a good excuse to talk about how fragile "your own platform" really is when it sits on somebody else's servers.
Netflix Doesn't Need My Debt Money Anymore
Netflix's Q4 earnings call this week had two things I wasn't expecting: a second CEO, and a company that might finally stop borrowing money to make TV.