Real tech advice for real people
4 minute read The Internet’s “Projects” Are Mostly Garbage Go search “raspberry pi projects” and count how many results are some guy building a robot arm that waters one plant. That’s not a project, that’s a hobby for someone with too much free time. Most of these lists are recycled clickbait, not help for the … Read more
3 minute read The company everyone tried to sue just got handed $400 million instead Remember last year when the entire record industry decided Suno was public enemy number one? Yeah, well, the lawyers are still busy, but the venture capitalists clearly didn’t get the memo. Suno just closed a $400 million Series D at … Read more
3 minute read Designers, are you feeling a weird mix of curiosity mixed with a lingering sense of dread when a new AI graphic tool gets announced? Has Google changed how you feel about bananas being “nano.” Does fight-or-flight kick in? Fight it and resist. Run away and pretend it never happened or doesn’t exist. … Read more
So, I read about new things in science all the time; it’s part of being a curious human, I tell myself. Growing up, I was the nerdy kid reading the Popular Science and Popular Mechanics magazines in Barnes and Noble. I wish bookstores weren’t disappearing. Well, here’s one idea that people are actually selling!! They … Read more
2 minute read I did it. I actually finished a book. Shadowcraft HERA Rising, written back in 2021 before AI was writing everything for everybody. Every word is mine. Every plot twist, every late night where I should have gone to bed two hours earlier. The only thing AI touched was generating the cover graphic, … Read more
