[drop_cap]N[/drop_cap]ot so long ago, when you hit a weird bug, the ritual was always the same: Google the error message → pray to the old gods → land on a 2012 StackOverflow thread answered by someone named DenverCoder9. If the stars aligned, there was a code snippet that almost fit. You copied it, pasted it, […]
Social media is so insanely fragmented right now it’s honestly comical. Remember 2009? (15 years ago … how?) I joined Twitter and it felt like the future. Even Facebook—yes, Facebook—was kinda usable back then. Real humans having real conversations instead of performing for the algorithm. Now? It’s just oceans of AI slop, engagement-farming rage bait, […]
The better AI models become at certain things the more fun it is to find things they horribly fail at. My new favorite low brow “benchmark”: draw the Hebrew letter Aleph in SVG format. It should be pretty simple in practice. Three lines: one long diagonal, one shorter curved line at the bottom (with optional […]
[drop_cap]I[/drop_cap]t’s practically a meme at this point. Any time the market share percentage on Statcounter so much as flickers, bloggers and op-ed editors pump out fresh articles proclaiming the glorious dethroning of the Mac/Windows Duopoly. “That’s it, folks! We are finally here: The Year Of the Linux Desktop!” As a ghost-Redditor wrote over a decade […]
[drop_cap]T[/drop_cap]he canonical collection of Hebrew writings known as Tanakh is one of the cornerstones of human civilization. Not only is it the foundational text of the Hebrew people, but it also provides the source code the two biggest religions on the planet were forked from. If, for a moment, we step back and leave all […]
[drop_cap]E[/drop_cap]arlier this year I found myself at a crossroads. Spotify’s recommendation algorithms hadn’t been what they used to be for a long time. I noticed they kept serving up the same lazy “safe picks” over and over again … When my wife kept asking me, “Hey, it keeps recommending that one song, how do I […]
Take an ebook. Take an audiobook. Smash the two together and you get a “TalkingBook”: synchronized text and audio that highlights what’s being spoken and lets you click phrases to trigger their audio content. In principle, it’s a simple idea. In fact, when I show it to people, it seems so intuitive: of course that’s […]
The Onyx Blackjack 2×2 USB Recording Interface is a great little box with some nice 60db boutique-quality preamps. You’ll often find it mentioned in forums and blogs across the web, and especially since this article, many people have been interested in the Onyx Blackjack as a affordable solution to power their gain-hungry Shure SM7Bs (in […]
[drop_cap]A[/drop_cap]fter playing around for a few days with Google Cardboard I definitely started to see the potential of phone-based VR but unfortunately the available games/apps on the Play Store were all rather short and restricted, seeming more like demos than full-blown VR experiences, so when I found that you can stream PC games in VR to your phone mode by […]
[drop_cap]W[/drop_cap]hile working on the latest two book and audio releases, I rediscovered the fun of playing old Super Nintendo games during downtime, the simple joy of quickly firing up Super Mario World in an emulator, stomping a few Goombas, flying high through pixelated skies, before going back to the grueling routine of editing, formatting, compiling vocabulary […]