ChatGPT Plugins: How to Survive December 11 Without Giving Away the Secret Recipe
Your GPT has a secret recipe. December 11 is coming, and ChatGPT plugins may expose more than you think. Here’s what you need to…
Friday Night Laughs: Windows Keyboard on a Mac, or Why Ctrl, Alt, and the Windows Key Need New Name Tags
Your Windows keyboard works on a Mac, but three familiar keys are lying about who they are. Fix them once and suddenly…
AWS re:Invent 2026, Round 2: I Favorited Six Sessions, Reserved Zero Chairs, and Accidentally Built a Single Point of Failure
I favorited six re:Invent sessions. Two are walk-up only, four are full, and my carefully engineered plan has now become…
September Review: X Found the Turbo Button, the Website Found a Trapdoor, and Sales Stayed Mythical
September sent X and TikTok soaring while site traffic cratered and sales stayed imaginary. So what actually worked…
Music That Moves Me: Episode 12 — Billy Joel’s Turn the Lights Back On, or How a Song I Did Not Love Kept Winning Anyway
I heard Billy Joel’s comeback song live and thought he had waited too long. Forty listens later, I was wondering if…
The Grand Debate: Does Coffee Hydrate or Dehydrate? Or Has Your Morning Cup Been Framed?
Coffee has been accused of dehydrating us for years. The science says your morning cup may be far less guilty than…
CS302 Episode 6: Language Design Tradeoffs, or Why Every Programming Language Makes You Pay Somewhere
Every programming language gives you power, takes something back, and quietly sends the bill somewhere else. The trick is knowing where…
Music That Moves Me: Episode 11 — Paul Simon’s “You Can Call Me Al,” or How Chevy Chase, Saturday Night Live, and One Impossible Bass Solo Hijacked My Memory
One song, one absurd Chevy Chase video, one bass line that should not be physically possible, and one memory rabbit hole that…
Command+Click: The Tiny Browser Trick That Saves Your Scroll, Your Place, and Possibly Your Sanity
One tiny Mac gesture can save your scroll, your place, and your patience. Once you start Command+Clicking links, you may never…
Artist Series Episode 85: John William Waterhouse, or How to Make Mythology Beautiful Right Before Everything Goes Terribly Wrong
Waterhouse made doomed myths gorgeous, then hid danger in the lilies. The deeper you look, the stranger his paintings become…