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Locking A Loophole
A couple of years ago, I found myself waiting for like a month for something I acquired from a crowdfunding campaign. The device, a tablet I ended up writing both a review and a follow-up for, was in...
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Moore’s Flinch
First, Apple gave up on Intel. Now, Intel might be giving up on Intel. In one of the wildest Friday-night news dumps in a while (in a week full of absolutely insane news stories), word out of the Wall...
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Party In The Rear
Today in Tedium: These days, it’s common to see a TV set that averages around 50 inches or larger—massive enough to be the centerpiece of every living room. But in earlier eras, huge screens like that...
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Content Fighting Systems
Back in February, amid a separate controversy largely focused on Tumblr, trans users, and AI scraping, I posed this question about WordPress provider Automattic and CEO Matt Mullenweg’s leadership:...
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The Paywall’s Final Frontier
I’ve been on the internet long enough to consider the paywall an inevitability in many cases. The advertising market is not sustainable in a real way, and lowers the quality of the overall experience,...
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Entering The Fray
Today in Tedium: If you’re someone who creates things, you have a giant target on your back, and you are at risk of sniping by people who weren’t involved in the creation of your work. Any commentator...
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When Benevolence Fades
It looked like the WordPress mess had a period of relative calm for a few days, but now it’s stormy once again. And honestly, I can’t help but feel like it’s only gotten uglier and harder to defend....
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Hooked On Clarendon
So, I’m not sure if you’ve done the math—I certainly have—but Tedium is closing in on its tenth anniversary. It hits in about three months, at the beginning of January. And naturally, I’m seeing this...
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Domains For The Masses
Today in Tedium: For obvious reasons, we’ve been discussing the work of web hosts lately. We kind of can’t get away from it. They’re essential to the way many people present themselves on the...
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Sick Of Fake Meat
Back when I was a teenager, I had a dalliance with vegetarianism, something that was a bit harder in the late ’90s when the options were a little more limited. I faded out for a bit. But then, by the...
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Gateway Country
Hey all, Ernie here with a refreshed piece from 2019. Currently, the Internet Archive has been down for days, having suffered a serious hack, with no sign that it’s coming back up anytime soon. (Let’s...
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Gatekept
When I was in college, in J-school to be specific, I dealt with a kind of ugly clique culture. At least from my vantage point, if you weren’t on the staff of the school paper, it was like you didn’t...
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More Signs, Worse Signal
As any urbanite online user probably knows, getting as far as possible away from the city means that you’re likely guaranteed two things: Spotty internet and yard signs for a certain former reality...
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So, Your CMS Blew Up
Today in Tedium: Deciding on a content management system is a bit of a dance. You often have to deal with dozens, maybe hundreds, of pieces of existing content. You want it to be easy to manage, able...
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Stressing The Protocol
I don’t expect people to fawn over my old tweets. Old tweets are not designed to be looked at in aggregate. But when I heard last week that there was a tool that could upload your old tweets to...
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Why Butterfingers Break
Today in Tedium: Ok, so we're near Halloween, and I've been thinking a bit about candy. (Beats politics or, as it turns out, journalism.) In particular, I'm always drawn to the structural integrity of...
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Caught In The Middle
This week, the anger and frustration around the news cycle has really been ratcheted up, for obvious reasons. Publishing a newsletter about Tedium is not always a good choice in that environment,...
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Pixel-Perfect?
It’s not often I can say I’m good at predicting the future, but here’s what I wrote in January: There are some interesting image editors out there that don’t get the attention of the primary three:...
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Everything Zen
Today in Tedium: The odds are that, based on my recent schedule, this will be the last issue of Tedium before the 2024 presidential election. I’m not really expecting a lot of breaking news in the...
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Know What You Control
I’m sure that there are lots of people reading this who found last night’s election results to be less than desirable. (If you’re not one of them, congrats.) They’re mad. At the same time, though,...
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