It’s not a good look when publications are posting articles advising users how to turn off your new, heavily marketed flagship software feature en masse. I understand that defaulting the features on is a change from release, but I don…

I read This Is How You Lose the Time War

I plucked this book from my reading list because I wasn’t sure what I wanted to read next but I really needed to leave and catch the train to work. This Is How You Lose the Time War won because it’s a novella that’s just o…

I read Horus Rising

I can’t believe I read a novel in the Warhammer universe and that it was also good. Warhammer has always been on the fringes of my radar, given my nerdy interests. It’s always seemed inscrutable, though—a massive collection of b…

What happened this past weekend to Tiktok is a loud reminder of how important owning where the content you produce lives. Whether or not Tiktok survives in some fashion, the lesson is that platforms control what’s on them; that’…

Pixel 9 and corner radii

I can’t stop staring at the back of the Pixel 9 series. It looks like Google ignored conventional design wisdom on how to nest rounded shapes within one another. The back of a 9 Pro for reference: Take a close look at the relationship…