Spotted 020 - Even Geek Squad There’s a lot of reasons why a business might put up a screen (or a TV that mirrors a computer). It is eye catching!
Spotted 019 - Too Much of a Workout Judging by the buttons, it looks like it is running a flavor of Android. I can’t blame Les Mills. Cardio is hard. I’ve
Spotted 017 - Leftover Pay Phones Every so often, I come across an old pay phone. They’re usually as raggedy as an old alley cat, broken, and left in the
Spotted 017 - At Ikea Spotted at an Ikea in Denver, Colorado. Coincidentally, there seems to be only one IKEA in Colorado. Whenever a number of different screens come together,
Spotted 016 - Old Televisions Spotted in Boulder, Colorado. An old TV sits around in a restaurant, playing static. Glitch aesthetic.
Security On SolarWinds and FireEye Getting Hacked Why the US government hack is literally keeping security experts awake at night (CNN) Microsoft unleashes ‘Death Star’ on SolarWinds hackers in extraordinary response to
AI & ML On Firing Timnit Gebru, Google’s AI Ethics Chief “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?” lays out the risks of large language models—AIs trained on staggering amounts
Software Breaking Changes & API Degradation See also this discussion components versus tools on hacker news: Hinges - like everything else on CarpentryHub - are either in a state of permanent
Software Error Handling is Hard I’d like to do a deep dive into some different ways of handling errors across programming languages, but this so far is the best
Spotted 015 - The Building Glitches Spotted in St. Louis, Missouri. The entire building - a fancy hotel? - was decked out in display panels. An architectural gimmick I’ve been
Spotted 014 - The Future of Fast Food, Part 2 Following up on the last post, spotted in a Taco Bell in Arizona. Above, a better error state – an option for how to continue the
Spotted 012 - Link NYC, Part 2 A few new additions to the “Weathered Tech x LinkNYC” canon. They remind me of the famous opening lines of Anna Karenina: “Happy families are