Prime Day Landed on the Same Day as the iPhone Event
Amazon's rescheduled Prime Day landed on the same day as Apple's iPhone 12 event, and most of the "deals" I checked weren't actually deals at all.
Apple Ditched the Charger and I Have Some Thoughts
Apple's iPhone 12 event was two days ago, and the detail I can't stop thinking about isn't the phone specs, it's the missing charger in the box.
The CRISPR Nobel and Why I Actually Read the Science Section This Week
The Chemistry Nobel just went to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna for CRISPR, and it made me actually stop and read the science pages this week instead of scrolling past.
The Fly Beat the Debate
A fly landed on Mike Pence's head during Tuesday's VP debate, and the internet's reaction infrastructure turned it into merch before the debate was even over.
449 Pages Later, Still Paying the App Store Tax
Congress dropped a 449-page report on Big Tech monopolies yesterday, and buried in it is the exact 30% App Store cut that quietly killed a side project of mine four years ago.
Chromecast Finally Gets a Remote (And I Have Feelings About It)
Google finally put a remote on the Chromecast and renamed the whole interface Google TV again — a look at the new hardware, plus a complaint about my ever-growing remote drawer.
I Did Not Get a 3080 (And I'm Weirdly Fine With It)
A blow-by-blow of failing to buy an RTX 3080 the normal way, and why the scalper-bot situation around last week's Nvidia launches bugs me more than the card shortage itself.
Still No RTX 3080, Ten Days Later
Ten days after the RTX 3080 launched, still no card in hand: a rant about bots, scalper eBay listings, and EVGA's queue-line-for-a-graphics-card system.
Bethesda's Microsoft's Now (And I Just Preordered a PS5)
Microsoft's $7.5 billion ZeniMax/Bethesda acquisition landed five days after I finally scored a PS5 preorder, and now I'm doing math about exclusives I don't love.
The Ban That Wasn't
The TikTok download ban that was supposed to hit at midnight got pushed a week, and a judge blocked the WeChat ban outright, leaving me with an alarm clock set for nothing.
The Day the Sky Turned Orange and I Still Had Standup
A few days late, some notes on the morning the Bay Area sky turned deep orange and I still logged into a 9:30 Zoom standup like nothing was happening outside.
The S&P 500 Said No to Tesla and I'm a Little Salty About It
Tesla got left out of the S&P 500's quarterly rebalancing despite hitting the profitability bar everyone expected would clinch it, and a small personal position (plus a rough week for tech stocks) makes it sting more than it should.