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The Hayes Code
Today in Tedium: Many parts of the computing experience may be outdated, but they haven’t become impossible to use. Old machines still turn on when you plug them in, after all, as long as Most of the...
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Hobbyists for Hire
Hey all, Ernie here with a fresh one from Andrew Egan, who decided to take a deep dive into hobbies that are so specific that the hobbyists become the experts. Like metal detecting. Today in Tedium:...
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Robot Hand is the Future
Today in Tedium: Can an algorithm be seen as a form of speech and help shape your decision-making? This was a key conversation point around a recent case in front of the Supreme Court that struck at...
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Self-Host All the Things?
Today in Tedium: Recently, I got a bit of a shocking message in the form of a bill. The bill came from a company named Zapier, which produces a tool for automating tasks of all kinds, such as...
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Point, Shoot, and Forget
Hey all, Ernie here with a piece from the archives. Over the weekend we had some pretty wild traffic numbers on our last piece, on self-hosted tools, so I guess we need to write more about that topic....
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On “Ernie”
Today in Tedium: Unless you’re Elton John or Lady Gaga or Elliott Smith, you generally don’t get to choose your name. It’s chosen for you, or you inherit it. I inherited my name, a two-syllable dynamo...
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Field of Bankruptcies
Today in Tedium: If the big business headlines of the last week have taught us anything, it’s that working at a startup is hard. You’re constantly hustling, looking for a way to get ahead and build...
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Appetite for Destruction
Today in Tedium: Paper is one of our most important materials—and one of our most fragile. It can mean nothing or define everything. In the right circumstances, it can last for centuries, maybe even...
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When Atari Was Politicized
Today in Tedium: Recently, there was a campaign against Al Gore holding onto his Apple board seat, which sounds like something that people with hats made of tin foil do when trying to drum up...
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A Side of Gloss
Today in Tedium: If you think about it, you could probably call this newsletter Food & Tech and neatly cover about 75 percent of our subject areas without having to change a thing. We are...
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When the Training Wheels Decide
Hey all, Ernie here with a fresh one from Andrew Egan, who continues his efforts to make Tedium a sports site. (To be fair, I took a stab at it somewhat recently.) But that said, his thought process...
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A Musical War of the Worlds
Hey all, Ernie here with a fresh one from David Buck, who’s helping to highlight one of the great epic albums—albeit one that you might not have heard of if you’re American. But it’s a story very much...
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Mile-High Productivity
Today in Tedium: I am not above stunt journalism. One of my greatest pieces involved me grabbing a book from 1994 and testing to see if any of the links still worked. (Spoiler alert: They did not.)...
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Hiding in the Basket
Today in Tedium: Much credit to Andy Baio for finding the best Easter Egg in quite a long time just a couple of days before Easter. In case you haven’t heard, he uncovered that, deep in the recesses...
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The Whole Stack
Today in Tedium: As lots of folks are probably aware, the team at Substack had a fairly eventful weekend, one where the loud guy did the same stupid thing he always does, and in the process, he made...
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Socket To Me
Hey all, Ernie here with a refreshed piece from 2018 about the processor socket and what it represents about upgradeability. Sadly, the story hasn’t gotten much better in the past four and a half...
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Textbooks of the Air
Today in Tedium: Remote learning. If you have kids and are at all familiar with the ebbs and flows of the remote education process, you probably realize it kind of sucks, that for all of its...
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The Next Chapter
Today in Tedium: As internet culture goes, it sure feels like we’re building up to something, doesn’t it? For a decade, it seemed like the goal was to expand reach above all else—even financial...
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CISC-y RISC-ness
Today in Tedium: If you’ve kept a close eye on the technology space of late, you probably know that this is perhaps one of the most interesting times for processors in many years. After a number of...
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Switching Pad
Today in Tedium: When it comes to operating systems, I’m a floater. I may use an Android phone full-time these days, but I’m a Mac user who flirts with both Linux and Windows throughout the day. And...
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