Your ISP’s DNS Is Also a Logging Pipeline You Never Agreed To
Most of the internet works on a layer nobody ever votes on. Every time a browser asks “where is this website”, the answer comes from somewhere. By default, that somewhere is a…
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The software you keep delaying is a sunk cost you stop noticing
Every tech person I know has at least one switch they keep meaning to make and never do. The switch is rarely hard in the moment. What is hard is admitting that…
Your Android Phone Is Not Slow, It Is Just Animating
There is a specific kind of lag that does not show up in benchmarks. The phone boots in fifteen seconds. Every app launches under half a second. Storage is half empty. RAM…
swapping the F-Droid client is the easiest Android upgrade
I have been running F-Droid (a community-run catalog of free, open-source Android apps, served from a curated index rather than Google’s Play Store) on my phone for years, and I have spent…
TypeScript Won, and the Statistics Are Lying About Why
I read four TypeScript roundup articles before writing this one, and three of them opened with a different number that was supposed to prove TypeScript is winning. Two of those numbers were…
A Search Engine Built a Tiny Museum for an Older Internet
The thing I keep noticing in 2026 is how much software is built to outlast its own usefulness. A weather app that wants you to subscribe. A notes app that wants your…
google fan is the engineering culture that refused an undo button
There is a small software product most people walk past every day, and the reason it has survived for over a decade is the same reason nobody has ever tried to file…
Google’s Guitar Doodle Is the Quietest Design Lesson in the Search Box
I lost twenty minutes to a doodle last weekend, and I do not feel bad about it. That is the strange part. Most of the things that pull me into a browser…
The Google tilt page is a piece of old Google engineering and it works
Some software earns its place by being too weird to review. The Google search bar still hides a small set of interactive pages that have been there for over a decade, and…
The Trust Store Underneath Your Browser Is A Quiet Permission System
The red wall in Chrome that says your connection is not private is doing a job almost nobody asked it to do. It is one of the rare moments when the trust…