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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
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Malicious compliance getting the 🤨
Johnny Ryan: EU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basis
Dr Johnny Ryan said "Today's court's decision shows that the consent system used by Google, Amazon, X, Microsoft, deceives hundreds of millions of Europeans. The tech industry has sought to hide its
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A big Things update you might not even notice
Werner in the Things blog: A Swift Cloud
We’ve rebuilt Things Cloud from the ground up. The system that keeps your to-dos in sync is now faster, built with modern technology, and ready for the future.
This is gonna sound like a burn, and I don't mean it that way, but
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The relationship doesn't have to end, it just might need to change
Glenn Fleishman writing for Six Colors: Can We Still Love Apple? Should We Ever Have?
Maybe it is the right time for this love affair to come to an end. Not the end of my love for what I can do with Apple stuff, but creating boundaries, something good for any relationship. From Tim Cook
Why do LLMs work?
This is such a good, quick video explaining why we don't really understand why LLMs work the way thy do.
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Owning digital goods means having the file, not some stupid ledger
Matthew Gault for 404 Media: NFTs That Cost Millions Replaced With Error Message After Project Downgraded to Free Cloudflare Plan
On Friday, thousands of NFTs that had once sold collectively for millions of dollars vanished from the internet and were replaced with the phrase “This content has been restricted. Using Cloudflare’s basic service in
