Quick thoughts on Apple's September 2025 event
September 10, 2025
Before too much time passes, I wanted to jot down some thoughts about yesterday’s Apple event.
YouTube is a mysterious monopoly
September 8, 2025
Yesterday I saw this Bluesky post from Adrian Black. He runs Adrian’s Digital Basement, a retro computer repair channel I really enjoy. In the post, he points out a trend I didn’t know about: YouTube views seem to have fallen off a cliff recently.
My take on blog analytics
August 31, 2025
I recently read You do not need “analytics” for your blog because you are neither a military surveillance unit nor a commodity trading company by Leon Paternoster. It’s a well-argued piece, and I agree with the general thrust… but I also won’t be removing analytics from my site anytime soon.
Tadpole Person vs. Turtle Chips
August 27, 2025
I really love Jet Lag: The Game. Part of my Nebula subscription includes The Layover podcast, where the hosts discuss the show. In the off-season, the episodes are sometimes absurd takes on game shows. This week’s episode was one of those, and I got a kick out of it.
"New" TLDs are weird
August 26, 2025
When I bought my first domain, there were only a handful of choices for top level domains (TLDs). Today I came across a blog hosted on a domain ending in .ooo. I haven’t thought about what TLD options were available in a while, and had some questions about this one in particular.
Mystery of the missing Bluesky posts
August 25, 2025
UPDATE: I heard back from Bryan Newbold, protocol engineer at Bluesky, about this. It seems this is an issue with the AppView layer of the protocol when it comes to large threads. There’s a new API in the works that’s set to help out with this problem. I’m glad to hear it wasn’t just me missing something obvious! The original post follows below.
Weird SEGA facts
August 15, 2025
I fell down a weird Wikipedia rabbit hole this morning. It was kicked off by a Bluesky post from Jeff Gerstmann, and it taught me two weird things about Sonic the Hedgehog.
The history of Windows XP
August 13, 2025
It’s interesting seeing the evolution of Windows XP’s interface design in this post. Some of the late-90s examples of web-based interfaces shown off here are new to me, but they trigger some deep nostalgia. It’s probably best that those interfaces didn’t make the cut, as that era web web tech was really slow. Still, they’re great to look back on.