My Cyber Monday Was Refreshing a Best Buy Page at 3am
A Cyber Monday post-mortem about failing to buy an NES Classic Edition, writing a dumb little stock-checker script, and losing to bots and scalpers anyway.
Good Luck Finding an NES Classic This Week
Eleven days after launch, the $59.99 NES Classic Edition is nowhere to be found in stores and going for triple the price on eBay. A few thoughts on nostalgia, scarcity, and bad planning.
Samsung Just Bought My Headphones
Samsung's $8 billion deal to buy Harman (AKG, JBL, Harman Kardon) has me side-eyeing my own headphones, and thinking about what a phone company wants with a car-audio business.
The OnePlus 3T and My Losing Battle Against Upgrade Itch
OnePlus announced the 3T today, and instead of getting excited I mostly just thought about how weird phone naming conventions have gotten.
Backing Up Six Seconds at a Time
A Sunday afternoon spent manually saving old Vines before the app winds down, and some grumbling about how badly Twitter handled the whole thing.
Google Home Ships Today and My Kitchen Already Has an Assistant
Google Home hits store shelves today at $129, and I'm sitting here trying to figure out why I'd want a second talking speaker when my Echo Dot already runs my kitchen timers.
Twitter Killed Vine and Nobody Even Seems Surprised
Twitter announced this week it's shutting down the Vine app as part of layoffs. A personal eulogy for six-second videos and the weird, specific creativity they produced.
The Surface Studio Is Gorgeous and I Still Can't Justify It
Microsoft's new all-in-one desktop looks incredible in the demo videos, but the starting price says a lot about who it's actually for.
What I Found Poking Around My Own Router After Friday
After Friday's big DNS outage knocked out Twitter and Netflix, I spent Sunday afternoon auditing my own webcam and router logins instead of doing something useful.
A Week Living Inside Bash on Windows
A week spent actually using Bash on Windows instead of dual-booting into Ubuntu, including the filesystem trap Microsoft warns you about and a symlink issue that bit me on day two.
A Weekend With PlayStation VR
A weekend spent with the newly launched PlayStation VR headset, including one very real bout of motion sickness and a coffee table that had to live in the kitchen for three days.
The Note 7 Is Dead, Official This Time
Samsung made the Note 7's death official today, and the Southwest Airlines evacuation over a smoking replacement unit is the detail that actually made this recall feel real.