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…
Bit of an oddball post today. The truth is, even I feel slightly unnerved to throw stuff like this into the ether - it's very conspiratorial, and very intimate. But, I want to hold myself accountable, to a degree. And it might just help some lovely readers know…
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…
My thoughts on WWDC25, Liquid Glass, the advancements to Apple Intelligence and more.…
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…
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…
6 months ago, I decided something had to change. I was sick of the Adobe suite. From Photoshop's constant freezing, to Acrobat and its glitches, to them dropping support for XD in the process of trying to monopolise the design market by attempting to buy Figma.. It was…
An important lesson on dark practices in the App Store.…