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These damn consumers won't update their phones fast enough
Kevin Williams writing for CNBC: Americans Are Holding Onto Devices Longer Than Ever and It's Costing the Economy
While squeezing as much life out of your device as possible may save money in the short run, especially amid widespread fears about the strength of the consumer and job market, it might cost the
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+ My 2025 video game tier list (25 games covered!) 🦃
A preview of the best games I played (and that came out) in 2025.
Ghost Explore
Birchtree runs on Ghost, and I'm super happy with it; I'd use it even if the
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+ Eating my words
Listen, I don’t always get it right.
Anyone with a different opinion to mine is getting paid
There's a trend that's impossible to ignore across the internet, and that's comment sections and reply-guys on social media suggesting that anyone with a different opinion to them (specifically that something they hate is good) is being paid to say what they're saying. Do you like
Are consumers just tech debt to Microsoft?
I’m not saying this will definitely happen, but I think we could be on the cusp of a significant shift in Windows market share for consumer computers. It is not going to drop to 2% in a year or anything, but I feel like a few pieces are coming together that could move the
AirDrop* comes to the Pixel 10
Google is really going out of their way to make their Pixel line as compatible with iPhones as possible. Today, the company announced an update available immediately for Pixel 10 devices (others coming later) that allows their Quick Share feature to work seamlessly with AirDrop on iPhones, iPads, and Macs.
According to the company'
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👏🏻 Arc 👏🏻 was 👏🏻 massively 👏🏻 influential 👏🏻
Yesterday, OpenAI pushed an update to their new ChatGPT Atlas browser that added a few nice features, most notably vertical tabs on the side of the browser window. And of course they would, right? This was technically a thing in some highly-customizable browsers like Vivaldi for years before, but Arc really made them mainstream
A new decade begins (omg I'm 40, someone send help!)
Today I turn 40 years old. It's a fun age because I know for a fact some people reading that line will feel sorry for me that I'm so advanced in age, while in others it will spark jealousy as they remember how good it was to be this age. I&
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AI as an accelerant, not a replacement
Christopher Butler: What AI Is Really For
My experience with AI in the design context tends to reflect what I think is generally true about AI in the workplace: the smaller the use case, the larger the gain. The larger the use case, the larger the expense. Most of the larger use cases that I
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Mastodon’s leadership change
Eugen Rochko: My next chapter with Mastodon
Mastodon is bigger than me, and though the technology we develop on is itself decentralized—with heaps of alternative fediverse projects demonstrating that participation in this ecosystem is possible without our involvement
Rochko seems like a good guy and I thank him for all he’s done leading
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The F1 game is taking a year off
Electronic Arts: EA Sports F1® Franchise Announcement
Today, EA SPORTS™ confirms future plans for F1® 25, with the game set to represent both the 2025 and 2026 FIA Formula One World Championships. This news drops alongside an announcement for the future of EA SPORTS F1® as 2027 will see the series return and mark the
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+ 5k on my birthday ✅
I committed to something at the start of the year, and I'm happy to say I was able to make it happen.
I was so close to saying something nice about Dia
Oh man, what remarkable timing. I had a blog post scheduled to go up later today, in which I said
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My favorite M5 iPad Pro review
Riley Hill is one of my favorite writers focused on the iPad, and he just reviewed the new M5 iPad Pro on his SlatePad blog. It's absolutely worth a read, but as a lapsed iPad fanatic myself, I couldn't resist remarking on a couple things.
Alongside high refresh rate support comes
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+ Text files are eternal
Some simple adoration for the greatest file format of all time.
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Bluesky, Mastodon, and Threads after the hype
Casey Newton: The Bluesky Exodus, One Year Later
Bluesky's ingenuity in reimagining feeds and moderation tools has been a boon to social networks, which have happily adopted some of its best ideas. (You can now find "starter packs" on both Threads and Mastodon.) Ultimately, though, it has the same shape and
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+ 5 GTA games in 12 years, then 13 years to wait for the next one
The major game studios release one game every five to ten years at this point, when they used to release absolute classics every one or two years. I do not like this trend.
