Best of 2025
Here’s my compilation of the best moments and my favorite things from 2025.
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The LLMs Go to Court
Last week two San Francisco judges issued important rulings about the use of copyrighted works to train large language models. They both sided (mostly) with the AI companies, but there were significant differences between the opinions.
Android Isn't Fun Anymore
When the Android mobile operating system was released in 2008, it was surrounded by a wonderfully weird world of modders, hackers, and developers. Now it’s stale monolith that’s alienating the community that made it great.
Best of 2024
It took me a while to get around to it, but here’s my roundup of my best moments and favorite things from 2024.
A Bluesky Primer
Over the past couple of years, the experience on the social media app formerly known as Twitter has become increasingly unendurable. Lots of people are searching for an alternative, and the hottest one right now is Bluesky.
Under 10k
A deep dive into songs I love by artists with 10,000 or fewer monthly listeners on Spotify.
The Problem with iMessage
The U.S. Department of Justice’s antitrust lawsuit against Apple claims that Apple’s iMessage service degrades messaging quality when iOS users communicate with anyone using a device that …
Best of 2023
I rang in 2024 from a cabin in the Sierra Nevada mountains, surrounded by family and friends. It was a pretty great New Year’s Eve, and now it’s time to look back on 2023.
Consolidation and Domination in Big Tech
Three stories in the news lately have got me thinking about how big tech companies interact with one another and with us. The first was the jury verdict for Epic in Epic Games v. Google, a landmark …
WordPress Development with XAMPP, Gulp, and SASS
One of my main programming projects is development of a complex site powered by WordPress, but I’ve never put together a description of my workflow. I build the site on my Windows box using …