I’m already exhausted by the deluge of AI-related news, products, and grifts that have followed Bing’s ChatGPT reveal—except for Kevin Roose’s piece in the Times about its alter ego, Sydney, which is fascinating and should…

Apple MR headset reveal (maybe) set for WWDC in June

Gurman reports the delay for Apple’s next big thing: Apple’s earlier plan was to unveil the product in early spring at a launch event aimed at consumers. It could then provide more extensive details and development tools to third-part…

Patch notes: byte sized reviews is now whatbrentplay

byte sized reveiws is dead, long live whatbrentplay Review detail is more concise

Patch notes: WBS → better excerpts, visible tags

Quick note—in the the interest of tracking progress and working in public, “patch notes” posts like this will highlight changes to any public project I have. Excerpts are shorter and conditional The overflow indicator for excerp…

Is Google Search in danger?

Google certainly thinks so. The Times reported in late December that the swift rise of ChatGPT was a “code red” for them internally. For more than 20 years, the Google search engine has served as the world’s primary gateway to t…

When is it okay to change a franchise’s gameplay?

A few screens and a brief bit of combat footage leaked for Dragon Age: Dreadwolf a few days ago. I’m not here to judge alpha footage for a game that doesn’t even have a release date but the internet’s reaction to that foot…

Saw this headline for an article written in 2001—many years before the mainstream smartphone era began—on the Nielsen Norman Group site. That sure aged well. It’s hard to believe we lived in a world where the usefulness of mobile devi…

Is Apple making a big foldable device?

Three of Apple’s biggest leakers have been talking about foldable devices this week. Ming-Chi Kuo issued a handful of tweets, communicating his confidence in such a device: I’m positive about the foldable iPad in 2024 and expect…