Google is Finally Beating Microsoft as a Leading Workplace App
Gemini 3.0 and the rest of Google's AI tools are eating everyone's lunch—Microsoft's included—and that will change how work gets done in the AI era. Microsof...
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Smashing the Machines in Portland Won’t Stop the Future
Smashing the Machines in Portland Won’t Stop the Future Last week in Portland, Oregon, something happened that felt ripped from the history books. A reaction...
There is No Such Thing as a Secure Encryption Backdoor
> I wrote this post nearly 6 years ago while working for a company in the encrypted messaging space. That company is no longer around and has a problematic h...
Generative AI today makes me think it’s 1997 all over again
Websites were a dog’s breakfast back then, but they had to be to get here now Update March 26: Long-time colleague Richard MacManus wrote on Cybercultural ab...
So, this is Gutenberg
Photo by Hannes Wolf on Unsplash I used to be right there testing beta versions of WordPress. Even on this, my live, production site. I've been out of that h...
Father's Day Gift Guide for Geek Dads
10 things a geek dad would like to have that isn't a tie Photo by Juliane Liebermann on Unsplash Not that many of us wear ties any more. I don't think I've h...
High gas prices might be the kick in the pants Vancouver needs
I’m no economist, but something has to give “Old, vintage and rusty blue gas pump located at a gas station at Los Alamos.” by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash One...
The Facebook Debacle Proves We Still Suck At Explaining Tech
And by we I mean us techies, geeks, and social media experts Photo by Tom Sodoge on Unsplash There have been a lot of great posts on Facebook’s privacy debac...
Canada May Be The Last Bastion of a Free Internet
Let’s hope it stays that way As the FCC in the U.S. threatens to dismantle net neutrality, the Independent reports the in the U.K. Theresa May may just censo...
Is new and shiny enough to change things?
Does it matter if it isn’t? Photo by Gary Ullah. Lots of folks are talking about Mastodon, yes myself included, and over the past 24 hours I’ve seen more tha...
Mastodon isn’t the end of Twitter, it’s the begining
Remember needing several email accounts back in the day? If you thought Twitter droppings were bad… Yes, like all my geeky tech brethren I’ve opened a Mastod...
Technology isn’t going to fix work
It’s up to us to figure this stuff out first I read a lot of Signal v. Noise. Even if I don’t use Basecamp at work, I connect with what Jason Fried and DHH s...