Steve

What should have been an email is now this blog post listing my top music albums from 2024. I'm not sure what to make of them other than to notice it's a much louder collection of artists than in past years. Why louder? Well, _gestures wildly at the world_

Yesterday, we entered a new timeline. I don’t know if it’s a better one or a much worse one. But it’s something new. This evening, we arrived home from touring a new city — checking out neighborhoods and schools — and found the unspeakable had marched on our hometown. Filth and venom, spewing. The kids watched a movie, and I...

We're over a decade into the industry's voice assistant experiment, and given the same input, the output doesn't feel reliably deterministic. Voice is an interface that is not stable or discoverable.

If I complain that modern software is too generic and boring, I should take my own advice and try something fun and borderline silly.