Tedium

Is X good again?

The concept of nominative antideterminism, or when your name goes against everything that you represent, whether intentionally or not.

A quixotic new project takes an AI-first approach to battling Adobe, and while it’s unclear where it leads, it raises important questions about what happens when companies ignore their users.

Some spare thoughts about Link, a newspaper that turned 20 years old today—but more or less changed my life.

Admit it, you were wondering where the hell the gas-station staples Combos came from just as much as I was.

If you haven't looked at the Napster website lately, get ready for some major AI-related indigestion.

Pondering the circumstances that led to the retirement of a 64-year-old cable brand in a merger.

A new tool for digging into Usenet history holds much potential for researchers.

Making sense of iLands, the company whose AI agents emailed me half a dozen times in two days offering to do my research.

Matt Mullenweg takes an involuntary leave of absence from Automattic, the company behind WordPress.

In a normal culture, a company as gray-haired as MapQuest would not be having a straight-on cultural revival in 2026.

You can go into the deep end way too easily with a self-hosting project.

In the 1980s and 1990s, Columbia House could do no wrong—it was a great way to get 12 CDs for a penny.

The 1980s proved surprisingly fruitful for licensed greeting card mascots.

I’ve seen a strange problem in my inbox that I haven’t been able to put into words.

When we lost Glen Hansard last week, his work still fresh and lively, it was a reminder that the world has changed more than we think it has.

The pricing gun should have been a dead technology years before it actually was.

My brain-breaking trick for weaning off of Facebook involved creating a fake URL for Google News.

When a really long road ends, why don’t we do more to celebrate the staggering amount of collective work that went into it?