A Hosting Platform I Keep Coming Back To Just Redid Its Whole Site
TrickNowTech quietly rebuilt its site this June and moved to a shorter domain, tricknow.tech. Here's why I keep using it for side projects.
Turning a Spare Moto G34 Into a DIY Tesla-Style Car Computer
A build log: unlocking, rooting, and re-flashing a spare Moto G34 5G with LineageOS to turn it into a permanently-installed Android Auto brain that runs YouTube, Netflix, and any other app on the car's factory display.
Building a Unified Firmware for the Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-LCD-3.49
A full build log of turning a 172×640 touch strip display into a clock, voice assistant, alarm/timer hub, and push-notification device — including every hardware quirk and bug fixed along the way.
Slack Is Worth $20 Billion and Still Buries My Messages
Slack's direct listing made it a $20 billion company overnight, but that doesn't stop its threading and notification design from ruining my Tuesday nights.
Slack Skips the IPO, and My Free Tier Complaint
Slack's direct listing on the NYSE last Thursday was weirder and more interesting than a normal IPO, plus a longstanding gripe about the free tier's 10,000 message search cap.
Slack Went Public and Skipped the Usual Theater
Slack went public last week via a direct listing instead of a normal IPO, and it's got me thinking about pricing pops, and missing my old self-hosted IRC bouncer.
Google Wants to Change How My Ad Blocker Works
Google's Manifest V3 proposal is quietly reshaping how ad blockers work in Chrome, and after a week of reading GitHub threads and briefly re-trying Firefox, I've got some thoughts.
Father's Day, an E3 Hangover, and Stadia's Math
A Father's Day tangent into E3 week, my dad's Atari in the garage, and why Google Stadia's pricing still doesn't add up for me.
iTunes Is Dead, Long Live Three Separate Apps
Apple split iTunes into three apps at WWDC and handed syncing off to Finder. A look at what that actually means, plus a quick note on Stadia's freshly announced pricing.
You're Breathtaking Too: Watching the Xbox Briefing
Live reactions to Microsoft's Xbox E3 briefing, including the Keanu Reeves "you're breathtaking" moment during the Cyberpunk 2077 reveal and why Game Pass matters more than the Project Scarlett spec sheet.
The Stand Costs More Than My Whole Desk
Apple's WWDC keynote gave us the cheese-grater Mac Pro and a gorgeous new display, but the thing everybody's still laughing about five days later is the $999 stand you have to buy separately.
The Train of Lights in My Backyard
A personal account of watching SpaceX's first Starlink satellite train cross the night sky, plus some grumbling about what a few thousand more of them will do to stargazing.