Some links don’t call for a full blog post, but sometimes I still want to share some of the good stuff I encounter on the web. Orangutan seen treating wound with medicinal herb in first for wild animals・Beautiful and incredible discovery. This is he・Ryan O’Flanagan is one of my favourite comedians in recent years, and I don’t understand why his videos aren’t reaching hundreds of thousands of views. Google is (still) losing the spam wars to zombie news-brands・Excellent summary of what is wrong with Google and Google Search, and this was published even before the recent leaked documents, sheddin ..read more

There has been a lot of discussion recently about the new iPad, especially the new iPad Pros — or is it iPads Pro? — and how the hardware is way too powerful for the limited software of these devices. Many argue that the iPad should be just as capable as a Mac, so maybe it should be able to run MacOS, or vice versa. Their vision isn’t very clear the more one thinks about it, but I understand their point. I think that it stems from a deep misunderstanding of what makes the iPad the iPad. Sometimes it’s not a misunderstanding per se, but it seems that some power users simply forgot what the iPad ..read more

Some links don’t call for a full blog post, but sometimes I still want to share some of the good stuff I encounter on the web. AI isn’t useless. But is it worth it?・You know how sometimes we say things like “I wish I had written this”? Well, Molly White wrote exactly how I feel about A.I. and I agree with like 99.99% of everything she says, so yeah, I wish I had written this. I read it twice and listened to it once on the podcast version, excellent read. My comments are in the Google Doc linked in the Dropbox I sent in the Slack・It’s funny because it’s true. (via Kottke) DevUtils・I don’t reall ..read more

This weekend, I had to purchase a new iPhone. My iPhone 11 — bought in October 2019 — was becoming unreliable. Its touch screen was acting up, either producing ghost touches or becoming unresponsive in some areas, which could be frustrating when the affected areas were covering the keyboard. In the past couple of weeks, I even had to use a Bluetooth mouse and a Bluetooth keyboard to unlock my phone a few times. After four and a half years, getting a new iPhone seems expected. I would have preferred to get an updated-for-2024 version of the iPhone SE, but surprisingly, no new iPhones SE were re ..read more

This post is inspired by the excellent track entitled Lamb’s Garbage (Unfinished), from the classic album and one of my favourites, Mr Oizo’s Lambs Anger. The concept of the song, as its title suggests, is to regroup bits of songs that were never completed to be full tracks. Since I’ve been sitting on a few short drafts for a while now, and since I can’t seem to convert those drafts into full blog posts, I thought I’d borrow the idea and compile parts of these unfinished posts into an inaugural “unfinished” post, a format that may or may not return. In the meantime, this is a format I can only ..read more

Some links don’t call for a full blog post, but sometimes I still want to share some of the good stuff I encounter on the web. A Willy Wonka-inspired experience ‘scam’ was so bad that people called the cops・The kind of story that either makes you laugh or cry. I can’t seem to stop searching for more information about it. How the most expensive swords in the world are made・The best 25 minutes I spent watching YouTube in a long time. ‘Very few have balls’: How American news lost its nerve・An acute painting of the journalism landscape, particularly in the production and publication of investigati ..read more

I do this every time. Writing at length about a topic I care about supercharges my brain. I have an idea, blurry at first, that becomes clearer and clearer as I write about it. When I’m finished, the idea is clear, mature, and the newly published post makes a lot of sense. I should then be ready to start writing the next one, and move on with my life. Except I’m not. My brain, apparently unaware that the drafting phase is over, keeps on analysing the initial idea well after the finished draft is online. And guess what? The torrent of thoughts my brain keeps pouring over me, and I end up changi ..read more

Shitty software is everywhere. And by “shitty” software, I mean software that is either not well-suited for a task, poorly implemented (meaning CPU-intensive for no reason), and/or simply not well-designed. As someone who really enjoys quality software and spends way too much time searching for a slightly better solution for each use case, this apparent lack of taste and bon goût from the general public kinda annoys me. It’s not like software is something we only use every other day: software is ubiquitous. I’d understand if people were not sensitive to the quality of shopping center escalator ..read more

At the end of 2022, my employer got me a brand new computer. It was a big deal because I had been using a typical company-issued Windows PC for the previous three years — and it was fine — and they gave me a MacBook Air (late 2020 model, aka the M1 MacBook Air). I was very happy to finally get a Mac for work, but also a better computer, with better performance, a better screen, a better microphone, a better design, much better battery life, better software, and so on. But a part of me was also worried. I was worried that using a Mac at work while working from home 9 days out of 10 would blur t ..read more

Some links don’t call for a full blog post, but sometimes I still want to share some of the good stuff I encounter on the web. Japan is set to launch the world’s first wooden satellite to combat space pollution・Not from The Onion. What’s Inside This Crater in Madagascar?・A very entertaining investigation. (via Kottke) How Google is killing independent sites like ours・We often discuss SEO as a cat-and-mouse game with Google. While I don’t completely agree with the article’s conclusion that “the ball is in Google’s court” (as online advertising seems to never be at fault for decreasing revenues ..read more