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Your $20 AI Subscription Is Subsidized. Here's the Math Nobody Shows You.
A video did the rounds on my feed this week — one of those animated explainer channels — with a hook designed to make you feel like a sucker: your $20 AI subscription is a delusion, and some power use...
The iPhone's Best Call-Forwarding Feature Isn't in the Settings App
Here's a dumb thing I ran into this week. I have a second phone number that answers calls for me — an automated receptionist line I built recently. What I wanted was simple: if I don't pick up, or I'm...
I Wrote a Perfect Permission Guard, and It Locked the First Admin Out
Around 1 AM I was doing what I thought was the easy part of a side project: applying a database migration. The migration ran clean. Then I tried to promote my own account to owner — the role that's al...
I Tested My AI Assistant's Boundaries. It Drew the Line One Step Too Late.
I deliberately tried to make my AI assistant cross one of its own lines. Not because I wanted what I was asking for — because I wanted to know how far the "no" actually extended. I run a personal assi...
My Voice Assistant Wouldn't Let Me Finish a Sentence. The Fix Was Deleting Three Lines.
There's a specific kind of awkwardness reserved for voice interfaces: you stop talking, and nobody notices. That was my life for a few weeks, on the phone with my own assistant. I'd say something, pau...
How to Tell People About Your Project Without Being the Person Everyone Hates
I shipped a thing recently. An open-source project — a self-hosted CMS I built for my own blog — and once the code was clean, the tests were green, and the README had actual screenshots in it, I hit t...
The Road to Devils Lake Is Called Burma Street, and Other Signs the Universe Is Messing With Me
We were driving to Devils Lake when the dark magic conversation started. This wasn't planned. It was a sunny Sunday, the kind of BC summer day that makes you forget eight months of rain ever happened,...
I Built an AI Receptionist That Answers My Phone — and It Has Better Boundaries Than I Do
I built the wrong thing first. That's not self-deprecation for effect — I genuinely spent an afternoon building a dumb call recorder when what I actually wanted was a receptionist. The difference matt...
Google Kills Products Like It's a Hobby. Why Does Dropbox Get the Grief?
A question I chewed on this weekend: Google launches products and kills them again, over and over, and somehow it never sticks to them. Dropbox tries the same thing and the business press writes it up...