Watching Bitcoin Slide Under $100k and Nobody Seems to Care
Bitcoin slid under $100k this week after touching $126k in October, right as AI-bubble jitters were spreading through Nvidia and Palantir. A few notes on watching it happen quietly.
Ten Days Later: What I Actually Changed After the AWS Outage
A personal, low-effort fix for the thing that annoyed me most about the October 20 AWS outage: my own tiny status page went down right along with everything it was supposed to be watching.
Amazon's Layoffs and the Word "Efficiency"
Amazon cut roughly 14,000 corporate jobs and called it "AI-driven efficiency" - a look at what that phrase is actually doing, plus a friend's story from inside it.
The Three-Line Cron Job That Should Have Existed Years Ago
I finally set up automated offsite backups for this blog after fourteen years of winging it, and the whole thing took about twenty minutes once I stopped overthinking it.
What Yesterday's AWS Outage Made Me Go Check On My Own Site
Yesterday's big AWS outage took out half the apps on my phone, so I spent the afternoon checking whether my own tiny site had the same dumb single points of failure.
What the Windows 10 ESU Enrollment Actually Asks For
Notes from actually enrolling an old Windows 10 machine in Microsoft's Extended Security Updates program the day after support ended, including the part about the "free" option nobody explains well.
The Physics Nobel Nobody's Excited About (And Should Be)
The 2025 Physics Nobel went to three guys for 1980s experiments on quantum tunneling, and it quietly explains why Google and IBM's quantum chips work the way they do.
The Prime Day Discount Math That Never Quite Adds Up
Amazon's October Prime Big Deal Days started today, and the discount math is a lot fuzzier than the banners suggest. Also: my doorbell cam has a personal vendetta against one specific squirrel.
The Sora Invite Code Hustle
OpenAI's Sora 2 launched invite-only last week, and the real story isn't the AI video, it's the invite code black market that sprang up around it within 48 hours.
Nvidia's $100 Billion OpenAI Bet Smells Like 1999
Nvidia's pledge to pour up to $100 billion into OpenAI keeps getting reported like a done deal instead of a ceiling on future payments, and the whole structure keeps reminding me of Lucent's vendor-financing days.
The Weekend the H-1B Fee Sent Everyone Scrambling Home
A Friday proclamation and a Sunday deadline sent tech companies scrambling to fly H-1B employees back into the US, and the chaos of that weekend says more than the $100,000 fee does.
I Almost Bought the Thinnest iPhone Ever
A personal, slightly grumpy take on iPhone 17 preorder week: why I skipped the ultra-thin iPhone Air's single camera and no-SIM-tray design for the boring Pro instead.