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Apple execs are to be seen on video, but never in person
John Gruber announced The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2025 with one notable adendum:
in recent years the guests have seemed a bit predictable: senior executives from Apple. This year I again extended my usual invitation to Apple, but, for the first time since 2015, they declined.
And Parker Ortolani: Apple’s Silence at "
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I loved Arc. Is Dia my next browser?
Today we're going hands-on with Dia, the upcoming browser from the aptly-named The Browser Company. Maybe
Yeah, it's time for a step back
Back when I was still using Twitter, I would develop a serious fatigue of social media every year or so and needed to take a step back from using it. I've written about this several times on this blog, but when I left Twitter and jumped feet-first into Mastodon in late 2022,
NVIDIA officially brings GeForce Now to Steam Deck, and I'm so happy about it
NVIDIA just released an official version of their (only one good enough to be worth you money IMO) game streaming service to the Steam Deck, and it is positively fantastic. The Steam Deck works great for most games, but there are a few that just don't really work because they're too
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One of my favorite one hit wonders
I genuinely think Wheatus’s Teenage Dirtbag is one of the best one hit wonders from my teen years and this acoustic version of it is a delight.
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NVIDIA's growth is insane (duh, but still)
NVIDIA just reported their financials for Q1 of fiscal year 2026, and it's all big numbers. The reported a record $3.8 billion in gaming revenue, but that is dwarfed by the $39 billion they made from "data center" revenue. All things said, they brought in $44 billion in the quarter.
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Apple copies Samsung 😉
MacRumors reporting on Mark Gurman's report that Apple is changing their naming format for operating systems:
We're not going to be getting iOS 19, we're getting iOS 26.
It has been fundamentally strange that Apple currently has OS's with the same features that rarely share a number,
CleanShot has a nice update out today
CleanShot 4.8 is out now and it has some nice new features, including a bespoke color picker that I actually really love. You'll never guess who they got to cover the updates in video 😉
And out of the interest of transparency (and mild comedy), I do get paid for these videos and
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Sampling Metal Gear Solid
This is one of those YouTube videos that perfectly captures two of my interests: YouTubers creating beats out of random sounds and Metal Gear Solid.
Alright, let’s try out comments
It’s probably been a decade since I’ve had comments on this site. I generally don’t like the
The summer movie challenge
Here's a little challenge I'd like to pose: this summer, watch 2 movies you skipped previously.
Pretty simple, right? Yes, but here's the tricky part.
* The first movie should be one you skipped, but that was well-received by critics and/or audiences. You didn't resonate with
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Google Beam, spatial personas, and different solutions to the same thing
Video conferencing is absolutely amazing tech, but it's not perfect. Google Beam and the Vision Pro's spatial personas are trying to improve some of the limits of those webcam calls a lot of us are doing every day, but they're coming at them from different angles. Google Beam has
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The one video game YouTube channel my wife likes
I love Kyle Bosman. I think his style is lovely and his comedic instincts just land with me. The best thing I can say is that it's the only video game channel that my wife doesn't roll her eyes at.
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Solar is on a freaking roll
Euan Graham, Nicolas Fulghum, and Katye Altieri: Global Electricity Review 2025 (yes, I did read this after watching Hank Green&
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Sometimes rock stars become high school teachers
I love, love, loved Absolutely (Story of a Girl) and I was a teenager, and I've watched this video at last a dozen times over the years because I love that sometimes you're famous one day and just a normal guy the next. I hope this guy's doing great.
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Newer LLMs are getting worse at some things
Joe Wilkins writing for Futurism: AI Chatbots Are Becoming Even Worse at Summarizing Data
Alarmingly, the LLMs' rate of error was found to increase the newer the chatbot was — the exact opposite of what AI industry leaders have been promising us. This is in addition to a correlation between an LLM's tendency
