A thing I really want more device designers to understand is that if your device has an obnoxious, repeating low battery alert that starts at a specific N% battery level -- a flashing red LED, or an audio alert every minute, that sort of thing -- then the actual effective battery life of your product is (100-N)%.

Nobody draws the little divot in the vertical bar character these days. What's up with that? Miss that little guy.

Once again my thoughts turn to buckwheat pancakes, which I regard with great fondness.

Periodically I will catch an episode of Great Chefs on Twitch's Hungry channel and it consistently has the worst audio of any cooking show I've ever seen; unavoidably so given the show concept (showcasing actual chefs who work in restaurants.) Commercial kitchens are loud and not optimized for sound. It really makes me appreciate the massive amount of work that must go into recording and audio mixing cooking shows so that you can hear anything that's going on at all.

Do we even still have Multimedia Experiences these days, or has it all been subsumed into games and online video?

Hypothesis: The ridges on a peanut butter cup or pie tart serve the same purpose as similar adaptations found in nature; namely, increasing the surface to volume ratio while otherwise maintaining the same overall shape and layout.

The natural and intended comparison for FFXVI is Game of Thrones, but since I’ve never seen it nor read any GRRM books, to me, FFXVI is a slightly strange Dune adaptation.

Alternate timeline where instead of Google taking over email, ISPs started offering federated search.

Me: I know I enjoy introducing a bunch of characters and then giving them all symbolic names but I worry I do it too much in my writing. Surely this will alienate the non-Homestucks in the audience.

Square Enix: Here are three different UIs for looking up our cast of dozens, and by the way we're naming the Phoenix character Joshua.

I don’t care how compelling your article is, I’m not clicking through the newsletter overlay on your Substack.