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Finding it’s delightful to have put myself into two obscure categories, from an IT troubleshooting point of view: * Families with more than four children * Families who immigrate to another country but still want to have access to their original country’s digital assets Absolutely delightful.

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

I came to Track Changes expecting a fun bit of tech geek history. I found a rich vein of parallels to the genAI revolution. A great read. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve seen some high friction spam unsubscribe forms in my day, but this Amazon one is next level. Amazing. Illegal?

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Reviewing my car insurance. Says I have 32 years of driving experience. First reaction: “That’s wild, I wonder where they came up with that.” Second reaction: 🥺

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

In practice, the new iOS text effects are just another way for iOS to do something to my text that I didn’t want, and for me to spend extra cycles trying to undo it. Yay.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

“Dad, why do so many company names start with ‘a‘?” Son, lemme tell you a story about these ancient things called “phone books”...

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Just discovered Ground News. Now I want my entire extended family to discover it, too! ground.news

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Can’t decide which blows my mind more: • the Apple ][‘s peak sales year was six years after its introduction • the Apple ][ was an active SKU for 16 years • the Apple ][‘s lifetime sales of 6 million units is routinely bested by a few days of iPhone sales

submitted 55 days ago • 4 comments

I used to find most headlines from The Onion laugh-out-loud funny, but lately the jokes just aren’t landing with me. Have I changed, or have they?

submitted 75 days ago • 2 comments

@gwern.bsky.social’s solution to Gene Wolf’s short story Suzanne Delange is a delightful read. gwern.net/suzanne-delage

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

I’m surprised that cursor positioning and text selection remains excruciating on iOS in late 2024.

submitted 75 days ago • 2 comments

My daughter has a nice smartphone but asked for this for Christmas. 🤔

submitted 80 days ago • 3 comments

Some news: I’ve moved to London to join @tessl.io, a developer AI startup — and I’ll be working with @almaer.com again, too!

submitted 106 days ago • 4 comments

Weird to go from infinitely configurable custom feeds to “here’s a ton of threads that intersect in an undefined way between your interests and ours.”

submitted 604 days ago • 1 comment

Is it okay to start playing Christmas music in July if it’s lo-fi?

submitted 605 days ago • 1 comment

Saw a few “America sucks” posts today, just wanted to put out there how proud I am to be an American, and to be part of this great experiment, bravely chartered on this day nearly 250 years ago. We have much yet to fix, much yet to do. But so grateful to be here.

submitted 605 days ago • 0 comments

🤣🤣🤣

submitted 607 days ago • 0 comments

a story in 3 acts

submitted 607 days ago • 44 comments

Are summer camps secretly in the “sell lightly used bedding” business?

submitted 608 days ago • 0 comments

Trying to grok the galaxy brain strategy Starbucks is employing that explains why their bakery display cases across the country are consistently gross.