Comfort Zone
You did not put a lot of time into this
Chris has an external drive faster than you’ve ever seen, Matt has a new email app he swears isn’
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A project to smooth relations with devs
Theo in a video about some recent Visual Studio Code drama:
We have to remember the role of VS Code. VS Code was never, ever, ever meant to make money. Microsoft's plan with VS Code was at no point, "we're going to charge for this and make a money printing
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Tariffs, integrity, and chaos
Ben Thompson: American Disruption (emphasis mine):
[T]he most important components for executing a fundamental shift in trade are those that go into building actual factories, or equipment for those factories. In the vast sea of stupidity that are these tariffs this is perhaps the stupidest detail of all: the U.S. is tariffing raw
Say hello to Quick Chapters
I said that Quick Stuff was a place for me to put those little web utilities that I just need
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Meta got tricky with LLM benchmarks
Oh boy, Meta released their latest llama models this weekend (I guess because they leaked, hence the rushed weekend release?), and it benchmarked quite well on LMArena. However, as Kyle Wiggers reported for TechCrunch, not all may have been on the up and up: Meta’s Benchmarks for Its New AI Models Are a Bit
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All the Switch 2 pricing questions I had last week are answered
Last week I wrote 2 main posts in reaction to the Nintendo Switch 2 announcement, and today we have new info on some of the open questions that lingered waaaay back then.
Game-key cards
I saw a remarkable amount of arguments against this new "physical" purchase option based on factually incorrect beliefs
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Remember when the Switch 2 was *only* going to cost $449?
Nintendo Life: Nintendo Delays Switch 2 Pre-Orders in the US Amidst New Trump Tariffs
Nintendo has delayed pre-orders for the Switch 2 in the US while it evaluates the potential impact of new tariffs from The Trump Administration.
And A $2,300 Apple iPhone? Trump tariffs could make that happen.
The cheapest iPhone
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Let's move on from post-credits scenes
Director James Mangold: talking about whether he'd want to put a post-credit scenes in one of this movies back in 2018
The idea of making a movie that would fucking embarrass me, that's part of the anesthetizing of this country or the world. That's further confirming what they
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How Nintendo's "game-key cards" actually work
I've seen a remarkable amount of misunderstanding out there on how Nintendo's game-key cards work.
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People’s passion for art made by humans persists
M.G. Siegler: A Spirited Debate Around AI
This isn’t the end of art. It may indeed be the dawn of a new age for art. And that may not devalue the human-created art as is the clear fear right now. In fact, it may even *elevate* it. Perhaps that sounds naive, but
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Peanut butter toast
You never know what moments have staying power until they hit you.
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Some thoughts on the Switch 2
Nintendo finally rolled out the red carpet for the Switch 2 yesterday, and I'll be honest, I'm super excited for it.
The hardware
The hardware for the new Switch is everything I ever wanted, minus one thing. The performance looks pretty darn good, and it appears from these trailers that the
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A new/old Pokémon game, how Hollywood can make good movies, and a puzzle with all edge pieces
We are so back!
Introducing Quick Stuff
Today I'm introducing the most side of side projects I've done in a long time, and
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The post you knew was coming about the Switch 2 display
Nintendo gave the Switch 2 it's grand unveiling today, and I think it looks great. $449 is a steep starting price, but considering the features and the fact we live in a world of inflation and significant tariffs on many goods coming into the US, it's not insane in my book.
Apple
Benchmarks from M2 Pro to M4 Pro
Long story short, I picked up a new MacBook Pro this week. I got the M4 Pro version with the higher core count and 1TB of internal storage. It's the exact same model in the lineup as the M2 Pro I've been using for the last 2.5 years (14 core
“Retina” is not a static PPI
I’m just going to keep posting about this every few months because people keep getting “retina” wrong. According to this YouTube video that was recommended to me today, retina on desktop monitors is exactly 218ppi (pixels per inch). Now of course the iPhone 4, which was the first product with a display that got