archive

The before times. You can break it down in two ways: articles and links.

The former is when I was better. The latter, the internet.

Surprise: it’s worth taking a break from social media 1 Oct, 2020
It’s okay to punch Nazis 30 Sep, 2020
“There’s no launch party for decay.” 28 Sep, 2020
Journalism is a team sport 27 Sep, 2020
“Doomer trad wife” and reactionary culture 26 Sep, 2020
The only good answer is “Yes” 17 Sep, 2020
Political leaders are sabotaging renewable energy 17 Sep, 2020
Windows 10 ignores your default browser to launch Edge 14 Sep, 2020
Microsoft’s console names make yet another good feature confusing 14 Sep, 2020
The world could use a little bit of tact right now 14 Sep, 2020
We don’t want everyone to understand us all the time 12 Sep, 2020
“There’s nothing novel about Netflix’s competitive culture of fear” 12 Sep, 2020
kites can’t jive (August 2020) 31 Aug, 2020
Sleep tracking in watchOS 7: simple but thoughtful 29 Aug, 2020
Can Uber delete itself? 29 Aug, 2020
kites can’t jive (July 2020) 30 Jul, 2020
The public helped fund great tech – what should they get in return? 20 Jul, 2020
Why time is weird in lockdown 14 Jul, 2020
China has been playing the long game. The US, not so much 13 Jul, 2020
TikTok, Douyin, and the “dystopian censorship machine” 13 Jul, 2020
Facebook’s civil rights failure 13 Jul, 2020
Tech exec wants to recreate the creepy surveillance tech from The Dark Knight (which was explicitly a bad idea) 13 Jul, 2020
Memeing law into existence: San Fran introduces the CAREN Act 9 Jul, 2020
What would it mean if Facebook and Google left Hong Kong? 9 Jul, 2020
Concern over TikTok is “international politics thinly veiled as a data ethics issue” 9 Jul, 2020
“Scream inside your heart”: advice for rollercoasters (and everyday life) 9 Jul, 2020
Hong Kong is the next battleground in the tech Cold War between China and the US 7 Jul, 2020
Apple never really gave Apple Arcade a chance (and that’s why it needs to change) 6 Jul, 2020
kites can't jive (June 2020) 1 Jul, 2020
Everyone’s joining the ban train 29 Jun, 2020
iOS 14's widgets bring the Windows Phone dream back to life 24 Jun, 2020
Platforms like Mixer, Twitch, and YouTube don’t care about you 24 Jun, 2020
Spaniards can't stop ruining important artworks 23 Jun, 2020
Women share stories of sexual assault in the world of video game streaming 23 Jun, 2020
A long list of short thoughts about things announced at WWDC (2020) 23 Jun, 2020
The picture 12 billion years in the making 22 Jun, 2020
Apple's Windows Problem 16 Jun, 2020
The WNBA is back 16 Jun, 2020
Minneapolis lawmakers: ‘Our commitment is to end policing as we know it’ 8 Jun, 2020
Mates don’t let mates kill people 8 Jun, 2020
Australia’s relationship with the US started with deception 8 Jun, 2020
Amy McQuire: ‘There cannot be 432 victims and no perpetrators’ 8 Jun, 2020
The mine that ate up a town 6 Jun, 2020
Pakistan is managing COVID-19 with mass surveillance 6 Jun, 2020
Cities aren’t ‘facing protests’ – they’re taking part in them 3 Jun, 2020
An actual politician: ‘brumby lives matter’ 3 Jun, 2020
‘They’re not moving. They’re not moving. Oh they got shot.’ 3 Jun, 2020
Police Commissioner: the officer who threw a kid to the ground had a bad day 3 Jun, 2020
The man teaching cops to kill 2 Jun, 2020
Lao lao, Laos's very own moonshine 2 Jun, 2020
Gregg Popovich: ‘The System Has to Change’ 2 Jun, 2020
kites can't jive (May 2020) 1 Jun, 2020
“The guy is drunk! But there he goes!” 13 May, 2020
LeBron James had no regard for human life twelve years ago 13 May, 2020
Only monsters reply all 13 May, 2020
Bookwork Adventures is gone and there no words 12 May, 2020
Improv comedians are suffering because of COVID-19 12 May, 2020
John Gruber on the state of iPhone and Android CPU Performance 12 May, 2020
A guy tried to buy nudes with Animal Crossing money (in a Facebook group his fiancé was also in) 11 May, 2020
Mastering tech as an expression of power 10 May, 2020
5 nit-picky changes I want to see in iOS 14 6 Apr, 2020
My essential self-isolation apps 2 Apr, 2020
"Digital Air Jordans" and the future of collectibles 5 Mar, 2020
What will survive when the millennial aesthetic dies? 4 Mar, 2020
Facebook has chosen growth over safety too many times 4 Mar, 2020
"No Solutions: A Personal Examination Of Online Anger" 1 Mar, 2020
Sending confetti is the superior way to text 26 Feb, 2020
The power China has over companies and countries (and how that shapes the world) 18 Feb, 2020
Apple News provides a mediocre reading experience 11 Feb, 2020
Netflix softens their viewership metrics, which doesn't seem insecure at all 25 Jan, 2020
Police are using an invasive tool they don't understand 23 Jan, 2020
Why lie to journalists when you can lie to the people directly? 22 Jan, 2020
Things that have invoked Siri since updating to iOS 13 and watchOS 6 20 Jan, 2020
Nepal introduces jail terms for "offensive" social posts 18 Jan, 2020
Amazon is donating money to victims of the Australian bushfires (while raking in money from oil companies) 13 Jan, 2020
The lives lost due to Kashmir's internet blackout 12 Jan, 2020
The environmental destruction of the Australian bushfires 12 Jan, 2020
The Apple Watch is a sassy bitch 11 Jan, 2020
Picking apart Rupert Murdoch's influence on the Australian bushfire debate 10 Jan, 2020
Twitter's changes to replies are a decade too late (and barely address the problem) 9 Jan, 2020
Unloveable Apple, endless growth, and the ad hellscape 7 Jan, 2020
The governments turning off the internet 6 Jan, 2020
Let kids vote to save Australia (and the world) 4 Jan, 2020
Bird mimics fire engine sirens as Australia burns 2 Jan, 2020
8tracks shuts down and another music service fades out 2 Jan, 2020
Machine learning and the art of under-paying people to fix your problems 1 Jan, 2020
5 great Christmas albums on Apple Music 24 Dec, 2019
The art of dying 17 Dec, 2019
Who goes Nazi? 16 Dec, 2019
A long list of short thoughts about movies I saw this year (2019) 15 Dec, 2019
No-one cares about the cool bands you like 7 Nov, 2019
Muzak for tech bros 7 Nov, 2019
The death of local media and close-to-home accountability 3 Nov, 2019
Kindle hackers and resistance via submission 3 Nov, 2019
Stratechery on privacy fundamentalism 29 Aug, 2019
The Cook Doctrine comes for your iPhone battery 9 Aug, 2019
Your wearable might be prejudiced 2 Aug, 2019
Craigslists' founder is committed to helping the newspaper industry 25 Jul, 2019
How a trade dispute in Asia could affect Apple 23 Jul, 2019
Jeremy Renner has an official app (and a song) 23 Jul, 2019
The problems facing tech journalism 18 Jul, 2019
Everyone owns your face 18 Jul, 2019
Flight Control was one of the reasons I got an iPhone 14 Jul, 2019
How to regulate the internet 11 Jul, 2019
Microsoft champions progressive values while donating to Republicans 10 Jul, 2019
The App Store's search is a disappointment 9 Jul, 2019
Netflix isn't a storytelling company 5 Jul, 2019
Jony Ive and the Apple Watch compromise 2 Jul, 2019
9 million people play Candy Crush for 3+ hours a day, but there are no but there's no 'addiction problem' 27 Jun, 2019
When complaints about censorship are about protecting the status quo 25 Jun, 2019
Media organisations liable for Facebook comments 24 Jun, 2019
The internet's right to partiality 24 Jun, 2019