Doppler is a good piece of software for a specific use case I encountered where nothing else worked. I was on a long road trip recently, and I’d already gone through hours and hours of old podcast episodes when I figured I’d head over to the Internet Archive and grab some bootleg concerts from bands …
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Tech economics
I’m not some kind of fancy economist but it’s weird to watch every major tech company lay off 10-20% of their workforce and even Apple, one of the most successful companies on earth, announce a hiring freeze when their company revenue graph looks like this. See the teeny tiny flattening of the steep curve on …
Stable Diffusion and AI generated art is absolutely wild in every way
After reading Andy Baio’s latest post about AI-art generators and artist rights, I reached out and had him walk me through how to experience it myself. We followed the instructions in this video: How you go about it It was about an hour of tinkering before about another hour of processing before I was at …
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Rewind
There’s a new company that caught my eye today, called Rewind. It claims to watch and listen everything you do on your computer (frightening yes, but also potentially powerful), while using transcripts and OCR to capture all the text that flashes before your eyes so you can find something you read or said or heard …
The Mini Maker Faire kind of blew my mind
I always wanted to attend the original Maker Faire in the Bay Area and the annual shows that followed, but they started soon after I moved to Oregon and they never overlapped with my travel down there. I recently noticed they were touring around Mini Maker Faires to different cities and I was delighted when my …
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On Lanyrd, investing, and selling
Lanyrd blew me away from the day it launched. It’s a way to track speakers and attendees of upcoming conferences, but it’s also a social web application. It was the first site/app I used that didn’t require yet another login (it used the then-new Twitter auth). It was the first Twitter-powered app that was instantly …
Pulling off a surprise party in this day and age
Pulling off a surprise birthday party in this day and age isn’t as easy as it seems, especially when the subject of a surprise (Andy Baio in this case) is totally plugged in with the technology world. Every movement and moment in our digital lives can leave a trace. Think about all the status updates, …
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3d Printing and the speed of progress
This is fascinating, someone has made a 3d printed insert for the Elevation Dock to hold a new lightning cable. In August, I received a few Elevation Docks after funding it earlier this year, and I loved using it each day as my phone finally had a nice bedside charger. Since I replaced my iPhone …
Ten months with a Nest
With the recent news of a new version of the smart thermostat Nest coming out, I figured I should finally write up what it has been like living with the first version of the product since last November, when mine arrived. Overall, it's been a great little tool, smart in lots of smart ways and …
World travel with the unlocked US Verizon iPhone 4S
I've had the Verizon iPhone 4S since it launched last Fall, and I've now taken trips to three countries to use it. I've spent extensive time in Belgium and New Zealand using local micro SIM cards to great effect, and due to a Verizon snafu I've had to use their international service in Belgium as …
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A Whole Lotta Nothing 