Ok, spatial personas are fuckin’ rad
I finally had my first spatial persona experience, and it was pretty rad. A friend and I spent about 30
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Praying for passkeys to get better
William writing at Firstyear's blog-a-log: Passkeys: A Shattered Dream
Passkeys are now seen as a way to capture users and audiences into a platform. What better way to encourage long term entrapment of users then by locking all their credentials into your platform, and even better, credentials that can't
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The kids are figuring it out
Justin Ling writing for Bug-eyed and Shameless: Leave Those Kids Alone
I’ve had a rule for a long time. It’s a simple rule and it goes like this: What students do on-campus is none of my business. Campus politics is a weird and insular business, and it should be the primary
The Rabbit R1 perplexes me
If I’m being totally honest, I don’t understand the Rabbit R1 at all. As a piece of hardware, it looks cool, so I understand if you want to spend $200 on a thing that will look cool on your shelf, but take away the cool physical design and I feel like you’re
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My Vision Pro spends most of its time in a drawer, and how that relates to cognitive bias (members post)
I reckon with why I'm generous with the Vision Pro falling short of my hopes while I'm happy to drag other products for doing the same thing. Also the best improvised version of Blur's Song 2 I've ever seen.
Think of literally anyone else
In software discussions, there’s a relatively healthy trope of saying something like, “sure this would be fine for power users, but what about normal people?” That’s a good question to ask, but what comes next always bugs me. The “normal person” will always be their mom.
100% of the time, it’s their
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What’s old is new and what’s new maybe isn’t what we want
Joshua Topolsky: Rabbit’s R1 AI Companion Is Not the Future You Were Promised
Right now, every time you want to do something like that with your phone, you’re jumping into and out of individual apps; the r1 supposes a future where all your apps connect into a central piece of AI-driven software,
A few of my tech-related hot takes
Let’s have some fun and rattle through some relatively spicy takes I have about tech!
Movie theaters are awesome and people still like them. Yes, home theaters and high quality headsets like the Vision Pro make the at-home experience better than ever, but there are still major elements that you don’t get
Be quick to praise, but slow to criticize
I think when it comes to most things in life, especially someone else’s art, we should all strive to be quick to praise the things we enjoy, but take our time before criticizing what we don’t.
I was thinking about this over the past week as The Internet dealt with a new album
64GB iPads need to go extinct
Well, I recently got an iPad Air. It turns out I really did miss having an iPad, and having one back in my life is wonderful.
I ended up getting the 64GB M1 model on a steep discount ($200 off)…clearly Best Buy was clearing out their inventory for the upcoming iPad line, and apparently
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Logitech (accidentally?) commits a cardinal sin of Mac software
Stephen Hackett first reported this yesterday and it was so wild I almost didn't believe it at first.
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A.I. tools are constantly “6 months” from really getting awesome
David Pierce for The Verge: Rabbit R1 Hands-On: Early Tests With the $199 AI Gadget
Almost immediately, though, I started running into stuff the R1 just can’t do. It can’t send emails or make spreadsheets, though Lyu has been demoing both for months.
And:
Rabbit’s roadmap is ambitious: Lyu has spent
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Wait, how many Vision Pros are selling?
Ming-Chi Kuo used to just provide supply chain data and he was remarkably reliable at that. Then he moved into more general punditry, and honestly it feels like things are off the rails enough that I find it hard to take his data seriously without looking into it further.
The most recent example is
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Calm companies are underrated
Justin Jackson: We Need More Calm Companies
A calm company's purpose is to provide exceptional service to customers while simultaneously improving the lives of the people who work there.
I love this, and it’s good to be reminded that there are many companies out there that don’t have pressure to grow
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How I fell in love with LEGO (members post)
Today we dive into why LEGO has unexpectedly become my go-to hobby over the past couple years.
Digital wallets on iOS already exist and here’s how they compete today
I see more people than I’d expect suggesting that enabling digital wallets for payments on the iPhone is massively dangerous and would lead to widespread fraud and I’ve even seen suggestions that these wallets would charge users a service fee to run all transactions.
I’m not here to tell you that every
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Incomplete thought: I looked at ChatGPT’s energy use and it doesn’t seem that bad…
I looked at how much electricity ChatGPT is supposed to use and compared it to some other items. From that perspective, it doesn't seem that crazy.
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Emulators aren’t new; here’s the great ones on the Mac
The first few emulators hit the App Store this week and while two of them were promptly removed (for different