Filing Taxes on the Day the IRS Website Died
The IRS's payment and e-file systems went down on Tax Day itself, pushing the deadline to today. A look at what that says about federal IT, plus my own last-minute filing mess.
Twitter Bought Football and I'm Not Sure Why
Twitter outbid Amazon and Verizon to stream ten Thursday Night Football games for about $10 million, and a week later I'm still not sure if that's clever or just weird.
A Rocket Landed on a Boat Named After a Joke
SpaceX finally landed a Falcon 9 booster on a drone ship in the Atlantic, and the best part might be that the boat is literally named after a joke from a sci-fi novel.
Four Days With the iPhone SE (And Why I'm Not Missing My 6s)
A few days in with the iPhone SE: why the 4-inch comeback phone is winning me over, what I actually miss from the 6s, and one gripe about the charger.
The iPhone SE Showed Up and Almost Nobody Noticed
The iPhone SE went on sale today, but it launched into a news cycle still hungover from the FBI-Apple fight ending three days earlier. A hands-on take, plus a complaint about that camera bump.
Still Waiting on the Rift
My Oculus Rift preorder from January just got pushed back thanks to a component shortage, and it's got me thinking about how little "estimated ship date" actually means.
The Day Eleven Lines of Code Broke My Build
An eleven-line npm package called left-pad got unpublished this week and broke builds across half the JavaScript ecosystem, mine included.
Nintendo Finally Shipped a Phone App, and It Is a Very Strange One
Nintendo's Miitomo app went live in Japan today, its first real smartphone release, and it's less a game than a weird Mii-based chat toy.
Move 78
AlphaGo took the five game match 4-1, but the number I can't stop thinking about is 78, the move in game four where Lee Sedol briefly broke the machine.
Move 78
Lee Sedol actually beat AlphaGo in game four, and the weird part isn't that it happened, it's exactly how it happened.
So a Computer Beat Lee Sedol and I Watched the Whole Thing
I stayed up way too late watching AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol in game one of their match, and I still don't know a good Go move from a bad one.
The Rocket Didn't Stick the Landing, And I Stayed Up For It Anyway
A late night watching SpaceX try (and fail) to stick a droneship landing after the SES-9 launch, plus a few thoughts on the AlphaGo match about to start in Seoul.