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Circles And Slashes
Today in Tedium: Recently, I heard someone talking about the red circle and slash, and it made me realize something—how little we actually talk about the red circle and slash, one of the most obvious...
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Spinning The Dead
Last night, just before I was about to go to bed, I had a sudden thought: There has to be a way to determine who Lineup Publishing is. The acquirers of Deadspin, the once-beloved-now-beleaguered...
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Linux Lessons (So Far)
Back in January, I informed the world that I had made the move to full-time Linux, and I think that thus far the experience has been quite good. I’ve come to enjoy the laptop I’m using it on, an HP...
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Digital Training Wheels
Today in Tedium: For a moment, consider the evolutionary space between the original Game Boy and the iPad. Both defined the way kids would experience computers in a portable format, but were so...
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Hackintosh In The Pastintosh?
If you think about it, the period in which end users worked around the limitations of Apple’s ecosystem to build their own things was bound to be temporary. Eventually, the company would force them to...
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The House Always Wins
Last week, I wrote at the end of my piece on Deadspin, speculating on its new owners: “And I promise, I won’t do a follow-up to this unless it turns out that my speculation is 100% correct.” So yeah,...
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Songs About Superman
Today in Tedium: One could argue that in the modern era, Superman’s stock hasn’t exactly been at the rate it was in prior generations. For one thing, Marvel’s pop-culture dominance sidelined many DC...
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A Creative Market Reset
Recently, I was posed a survey about Adobe’s products, and I found myself just kind of stuck in a permanent eyeroll about the whole thing. The fact that this company pushes us to pay hundreds of...
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The Value Of A Promise
As a quick follow-up of sorts to yesterday’s piece, I want to talk a little about the pledge Affinity and Canva shared with their user base: A promise that they would continue to keep the Affinity...
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Recapturing Real Time
Today in Tedium: This week, the tragic, seemingly random destruction of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore was at the center of our news cycle. It dominated the headlines, and lots of people...
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xz, tarred
As someone who has been messing with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on top of his normal installation of Nobara Linux, I knew this was serious when I did an update yesterday, and it forced me to re-download...
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The Venue’s Too Small
This time a year ago, I had the chance to check out a hockey game at the Norfolk Scope. While not the newest thing around, it’s a pretty good venue, quite large, and it is definitely a great way to...
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Three Flavors, One Carton
Hey all, Ernie here with an updated piece from 2021 about one of the more unusual-yet-common kinds of ice cream in the freezer. It hasn’t been in space, but it’s nonetheless a treat—albeit not quite...
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My Final Hackintosh Rodeo
As I wrote relatively recently, we are not far from the expiration date for Intel-based MacOS. It could hit as soon as this year, possibly next. But it doesn’t mean there still isn’t room to have fun...
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The Post-SEO Era
A while back, I took a bit of a swipe at Axios, which I felt was selling bullet points as something innovative when there were so many more ways to stretch the alt-story-form model. I surmised in the...
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What’s A Workgroup?
Today in Tedium: Networking has played an important role in computing history. We want to collaborate without having to share floppy disks or be over one another’s shoulders all day. The internet...
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It’s Easy. But Is It Easy Enough?
In the past year or so, I’ve really started to embrace self-hosting more seriously, in part because it’s gotten a lot easier to do. (One of my most popular posts of last year was also about...
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Berliner Goes Tabloid
Today, I came up with a niche joke, extremely niche. But it is extremely fitting given the situation surrounding NPR right now. “I see Uri Berliner has decided to change his format to Uri Tabloid,” I...
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Trip’s Big Interactive Reset
Today in Tedium: Lately, there’s been a lot of discussion about open ecosystems vs. closed ecosystems, how locking outsiders out of your ecosystem can harm competition and degrade consumer...
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Post-Post
It’s always telling when the dude who literally founded your social network doesn’t use it for nearly two months. Noam Bardin, the founder of Post.News, the site that was intended to bring back the...
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