Articles
Every article on the blog, from newest to oldest.
· 14 min read
Keeping a cool head when France melts
From a well-placed fan to chalk wash on the windows, how I keep a home livable through a French heat wave without wrecking my health.
· 5 min read
Soundcore Sleep, and finally sound asleep
A non-sponsored field report on soundcore Sleep earbuds, which finally cured my trouble falling asleep after fifteen years of wax and foam earplugs.
· 4 min read
MapTap, guessing the world one tap at a time
MapTap is a daily geography game where you tap five places on a globe, and every answer comes with a short history lesson that actually sticks.
· 5 min read
On the web, humans are already outnumbered
For the first time, Cloudflare has measured more web requests coming from bots than from humans, a tipping point that arrived far sooner than anyone expected.
· 5 min read
Le Chaton Fat, the model too fat to be true
For one weekend, Reddit and X crowned Le Chaton Fat, a world-beating Mistral AI model with absurd benchmark scores, before remembering it had never existed.
· 4 min read
Guild Wars 3, the MMORPG I won't have time to love
ArenaNet announced Guild Wars 3 at Summer Game Fest, and the MMORPG veteran dozing inside me snapped awake, dragging twenty-five years of memories with him.
· 6 min read
Fable and Mythos, the day AI got classified
Three days after launch, Anthropic had to pull Fable 5 and Mythos 5 on Washington's orders, and export controls now reach artificial intelligence.
· 4 min read
Elon Musk, a trillionaire despite it all
SpaceX's record-smashing IPO just made Elon Musk the first trillionaire in history, a feat that commands respect and unease in roughly equal measure.
· 6 min read
The Wave, or how to build a dictatorship in five days
A lunch with a friend, a movie memory, and a handful of social experiments later, a look back at the German film where a whole classroom flips in a single week.
· 4 min read
Alba, my daughter, and one controller for four hands
Why Alba: A Wildlife Adventure is the perfect game to share with a four-year-old: an open world with no enemies, wildlife to photograph, and no lecture.