Stop scaring yourself
The smart home community loves cameras. Don’t fall for it. Companies actively use fear as a sales strategy and your life will get worse because of it.
Digital Infrastructure and Why Open Source Is Not Enough Anymore
Why the Wordpress drama is just the symptom of a bigger problem and a call for digital infrastructure to be treated as a public good.
Podcast announcement
Podcast announcement0:00/122.7841× SUBSCRIBE RSS | Apple Podcasts | Overcast | Pocket Casts | Spotify So what's a guy supposed to do who already has a few podcasts that haven't released new episodes in a year or more, but that aren't officially dead yet? I think
The fundamental sadness of billionaires
The struggle with perfectionism is hardly unique. I myself gave up on way too many things just because I haven’t met my own expectations. This, to a degree, isn’t necessarily bad. It makes me get better at my job which in return provides me better opportunities. But it
Replies aren’t comments, it’s time for proper etiquette
»Social media made y’all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it.« – Mike Tyson The one thing Twitter did right, the one thing that made it so sticky wasn’t immediacy and speed, it was access. You could actually talk to the
Meta accidentally proved that AI isn’t really the innovation that we were promised
Nobody can remember the last time Mark Zuckerberg brought something new to the table. For a long time their business model was to buy competitors, now that they are at scale their business model ist to rip off competitors. That’s not meant as a criticism, from what I heard
E-sport Shouldn’t Be Olympic – not Because It Isn’t Sport but Because It Is Bad, Actually
E-sports companies are always lobbying to be included in the Olympic Games. And for years I have been joking that e-sports should be treated as sports because they lead to the exact same disinterest in me. I like playing games, virtual or real, but watching someone else do it never
TVs should be square again
The first time I experienced how great movies can be, even at home, was 2019 when I got my OLED Television (A 55″ LG B9 that i still use.) It wasn’t about the 4k resolution. But the perfect contrast of pixel accurate dimming and true HDR performance truly changed
A Niche Problem to Have
James Hoffmann likes coffee. In fact he likes coffee so much that it‘s barely possible to escape his online presence, even if you don’t really care for hot beverages. Because even if you are fine with what your basic filter machine has to offer, there is no way
Please stop making me buy the same computers over and over again
Game exclusives are the stupidest thing in the world. I own a Playstation 5 – a console that Sony lost money on when I bought it. I own an Xbox Series X – a badly named console that Microsoft lost money on when I bought it. I own a gaming PC that
The dangers of independent journalism
That journalists are incentivised to become their own brands is not a new development. Back then it lead to lucrative television gigs, now you can launch a newsletter and a career on Youtube. It’s also often the only option left if you want to be in journalism. Buzzfeed News
Likes* are the best
*Favourites are even better, but that battle was lost a long time ago The like has a bad reputation. I don’t talk about the modern kind that just works as a shitty repost or to nudge the algorithm. I’m talking about the little button that makes a number