500 Atoms and a Nylon Bag
Bethesda tried to make up for a swapped-out canvas bag with 500 Atoms, and the whole thing tells you more about how game companies handle mistakes than any patch notes ever could.
Checking Coinbase Before Bed Was a Mistake
Bitcoin slid back under six grand this week and I made the mistake of checking the price right before bed — plus a confession about the GPU I bought to mine it back in 2017.
A Laser Company Nobody's Heard Of Just Tanked Apple's Stock
A little-known laser supplier named Lumentum cut its guidance and took a chunk out of Apple's stock price this week, which says more about the fragility of the supply chain than about actual iPhone demand.
Stan Lee and a Weirdly Heavy Monday
Stan Lee died today at 95, and it's got me thinking about how tangled up this blog's whole run has been with the rise of the MCU, plus a couple of smaller asides on the new MacBook Air's price hike and the Google walkout.
My USB-C Dongle Shopping List for the New iPad Pro
The new iPad Pro dropped Lightning for USB-C, and my first weekend with it was mostly spent figuring out which dongles I actually needed to buy.
Still Waiting on That October Update
Windows 10's October Update is still paused a month after it started deleting people's files. Here's how to check your build number and why you shouldn't force the upgrade yet.
A Few Small Things About the Google Walkout
Thoughts on Thursday's Google walkout, the Andy Rubin exit package that sparked it, and why the arbitration demand is the part worth actually watching.
Refreshing Stock Apps During the October Selloff
A personal account of compulsively refreshing stock apps during the October 2018 tech selloff, with a few thoughts on Tesla's surprise Q3 profit and financial media's identical talking points.
Chrome Finally Let Me Turn Off That Sign-In Thing
Chrome 70 finally added a real off switch for the forced browser sign-in that caused all that fuss back in September. Here's where to find it and why it mattered to me.
Surface Laptop 2 Ships Today, Still No USB-C
Surface Laptop 2 and Surface Pro 6 went on sale today, and I still can't get over the fact that neither one has a USB-C port.
Digging Through My Old Google+ Circles
Google announced it's shutting down Google+ after a data-exposing bug, so I dug up my old account from 2011 and found seven years of embarrassing posts.
Nobody's Actually Sad Google+ Is Dying
Google is shutting down consumer Google+ after sitting on a data-exposure bug for seven months, and honestly nobody's mourning the network itself.