Google wants to take back control over app distribution on Android.

Today, Google released a statement on the Android developers blog explaining that they will now require all developers to verify their info with Google if they make apps, no matter how they choose to distribute them. The changes will roll out gradually over the next two years, and will apply…

Perplexity - horrible people making the perfect product.

Alright, I have a confession to make. I actually love Perplexity. Even though I used to be their biggest hater. But.. I'm not sure I can say the same about the company, or anything they stand for. Let's dive in, aspect by aspect. Perplexity as a…

Cursor just rugged their entire userbase - let's talk about it.

About two weeks ago, Cursor - the AI developer tool - made a VERY bold move in a bid to secure market share among their competitors. People were amazed. It was already hard to believe cursor was profitable, even more so now that you could access top tier inference for…

Stop shipping wrappers of free software.

Today, we are gathered to smoke this engineer: Despite being an engineer at Amazon, he's decided to ship his own product - Cliply. On the surface it's a harmless, easy video downloader. But.. let's talk about it. It's misleading. Let's…

The AI business model is broken.

AI tools have become incredibly popular over the last two years, and it's created a wide variety of offerings, free and paid alike. But they all have one thing in common: they aren't making money. Aside from some incredibly niche tools like T3 Chat, which already…

Making job searches less of a chore - it's possible.

Recently, my partner was laid off from work, and has been feeding manual job searches to cause burnout and lack of motivation very quickly. Thus I decided it was time to investigate a small side project that could tailor the experience and make it less draining. My first idea was…

OpenAI finally has competition - and they should be worried.

A few days ago, a Chinese research company called Deepseek unveiled their newest model - Deepseek R1. R1 is a completely open source reasoning model - and one that takes a far more flexible approach than OpenAI - and beats it on both performance and price. Before we dive into…