Will more free time destroy the world?
I had a brainwave [coincidentally when on my own free time holiday]. I had listened to a series of articles on long work hours in China, changes in American wor...
Author: charlie
Ghost’s manifesto is a call to take back the graph, take back the cloud
Years ago I was trying to find away to keep folks connected across all their various digital streams. At the same time, the large Platforms were kicking off the...
Banning foreign-owned companies isn’t unprecedented in the US, TikTok is just one of the latest
The whole TikTok-banning story has been interesting to me. I understand that there is little faith in dominant foreign-owned orgs that either sit on our network...
Is Autopilot as smart as a horse? (another BASAAP story)
There was an article in the Verge, discussing a recent study by the NHTSA finding Tesla’s poorly designed driver-assist features have been linked to hundreds of...
Adidas Sambas are over 30 years of memories for me
I got my first Sambas (the traditional black ones, like in the photo) in college, influenced by some of my friends who were on the soccer team (bless ya, JP) . ...
Are all GenAI buttons magic fairy dust?
I now have apps everywhere asking me to click a button to use GenAI to do the things I can do myself. So I sorta ignore them. But last night I saw a Samsung ad ...
Is Aboard onto something, building with GenAI? (Bonus: BASAAP reference!)
I will admit (not that folks didn’t already know this) I am not really an original kind of guy.[1] Tho I do fool myself into thinking I am a decent remixe...
The connection between the T-Mobile Sidekick and Nokia Cloud
This article got me all nostalgic for the mid-2000s. Back then, I was at Nokia, deep into the Nokia smartphone world, fusing mobile and the internet. And by 200...
What’s at the heart of the iRythm Zeo XT monitor?
I came into possession of a Zeo XT long-term heart monitor (see image right). The device was sent to someone I know who ended up not using it. So I took it and,...
Project: Bruins 100-year anniversary sign
I had mentioned an earlier project where I hacked the parts of some solar deck lights, where the lights were cheaper than me buying all the parts myself. So of ...