Category: Technology

Steam in your living room and Steam all over your face
Valve’s announcement of new Steam hardware makes all the right choices, and actually makes me feel a little less irrelevant

Vast and Trunkless Legs of Stone
The people pumping up the generative AI bubble are so lazy that they’ve skipped over a crucial part of the whole pitch

The Genie Has Left the Bottle
Getting mad at an infuriatingly insipid AI video and thinking about how much of the bubble is genuinely inevitable.

The Tragedy of the Slop
Even with billions of dollars of investment, the miraculous thinking machines can’t answer the simple question “Why can’t we have nice things?”

Kobo Libra Colour: Reader-Centric
An important addendum about e-readers and what we should expect technology to do


I Was Wrong About the New Reeder
Silvio Rizzi’s redesign of his excellent RSS reader into a unified hub for the internet makes RSS feel relevant again

The Kobo Libra Colour, or, In Praise of Increasingly Necessary Devices
First impressions of a new color e-ink ebook reader, along with an explanation of why I got it

Perfect, No Notes
My long-running frustration with finding the perfect tablet has reached the point where I’m blaming the tech industry as a whole











