Watching the Super Bowl Online Tonight? Better Have Verizon
NBC is streaming Super Bowl XLIX online for the first time ever, but mobile streaming is Verizon-only, and I'm stuck on AT&T tonight.
The Blizzard That Mostly Missed Us
A blizzard alert screamed my phone awake at 11pm for a storm that mostly missed us, and a week later I'm still thinking about what that does to the next real warning.
Patching GHOST on My Tiny Droplet
A walkthrough of patching the GHOST glibc vulnerability on a self-hosted VPS, plus some grumbling about rebooting a server with 400 days of uptime.
Snowmageddon Never Came (But My Weather App Called It)
A recap of the NYC blizzard that wasn't (Winter Storm Juno), why the subway shutdown for the first time ever, and how a quiet weather app called the forecast bust before the news did.
Well, That's It For Glass (For Now)
Google quietly ended the Glass Explorer Program this week. A look back at trying one on at a meetup in 2013, and why the $1,500 price tag and the "glasshole" backlash never really went away.
Google Glass Explorer Edition Is Dead, and I'm Not Sad About It
Google quietly ended sales of the Glass Explorer Edition this week and folded the team under Tony Fadell. A look back at the $1,500 headset nobody quite knew what to do with.
The Weird Asterisk on Microsoft's Free Windows 10 Upgrade
Microsoft's Windows 10 event was all HoloLens headlines this week, but the detail that actually got me was the one about pirated copies getting the free upgrade too.
Microsoft Says Windows 10 Will Be Free and I Am Already Suspicious
Microsoft's January 21st event buried its biggest news under HoloLens headlines: Windows 10 will be a free upgrade for a year. Here's why that makes me nervous, not excited.
Running the Windows 10 Preview Without Touching Your Real Machine
A walkthrough of running the Windows 10 Technical Preview in a VirtualBox VM without risking your main machine, plus some honest notes on where build 9879 still falls short.
RadioShack Is Dying and Nobody's Going to Replace It
Reports this week say RadioShack is drawing up a bankruptcy filing, and I've got very specific feelings about losing the last store where you could buy exactly one resistor at 9pm.
RIP to the Little Green LED
Google is winding down the Glass Explorer program this week, and between that and the wearable pileup at CES, I've got some thoughts on why face computers flopped and wrist computers didn't.
Close But No Cigar: On That SpaceX Droneship Landing
A few days late reacting to SpaceX's droneship landing attempt, why "ran out of hydraulic fluid" is a strangely encouraging way to fail, and a tangent about being sick of CES smart fridge posts.