The Old Man and the Screen

Gruber piece has merits: regular people have no idea what any of the permissions they allow apps to have actually do, and they shouldn’t I would add.

I wonder if the oversupply of irony in American mass culture is due to the faux-historied public spaces that pervades it and how, in an urge to manufacture authenticity, it produced an empty parody that brought forward irony as the coping and defense mech…

Every month/week/day there is a post/article/podcast from one of the priests summoning AGI and it goes something like: We all know we are bringing upon us the end of the world, but we got to speed up and be first at it, because other people cannot be trus…

Every day a new thing gets released, a new AI model, new car, new service, new phone, new laptop, new headphones, new power bank, new, new, new… and our compulsion is to ask: how does it perform vs what came before?

Sometimes you get to known more of yourself and an issue by arguing the opposite site of what you believe in.

I just noticed the posts lately have been few and far apart here - even if i promised myself to write most days as a goal for 2026.

Just finished Apple’s Widow’s Bay and liked it a lot.

I largely agree with stevemagness (Steve) post on how we are making the new generation weaker and dumber (in some areas) by preventing their proper development, I’m just not so sure it is for the reasons Steve is citing.

There was a time, not too long ago, when the time was just right to buy an old thing you always wanted, keep it for few years and then selling it on for more money than you paid it for, it was perfect and it was not meant to last.

Developers are freaking out about AI and they are right to do so, if they allow themselves the honesty of looking at their role in the workplace, they will see it will soon be automated and the premium that developers have demanded for a quarter of a cent…

I watched the Omacon stream the other day and one of the ideas that resonated with me, and that I didn’t fully grasped was the latest evolution of the PC.

TL;DR: trending is 90% the same 10 blogs (or wannabes) beating a dead horse and I prefer pissing in the wind.