The Browser Tab Has Become Your Brain's External Hard Drive
The browser tab has absorbed responsibilities once handled by notebooks, task lists, and memory itself—and the performance cost is real.
Jul 19 · 5 min read
Clear essays on technology, AI tools, agents, and how software changes everyday reading and work.
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The browser tab has absorbed responsibilities once handled by notebooks, task lists, and memory itself—and the performance cost is real.
Jul 19 · 5 min read
The migration of biometric facial recognition from border control to breakfast tables is less about security and more about the new economics of convenience.
Jul 13 · 5 min read
How the simple act of proving you are you has evolved into a multi-factor, device-specific, behavioral-analysis marathon that you didn't sign up for.
Jul 12 · 5 min read
Satellite-to-phone service is turning mobile coverage from a map problem into a policy decision.
Jun 29 · 5 min read
CAPTCHAs were meant to stop bots. Now they reveal how much of the web is built on making humans prove they are not software.
Jun 28 · 5 min read
Passkeys reduce password risk, but they move the real contest to devices, clouds, and recovery desks.
Jun 22 · 5 min read
Connected homes promised convenience, but quietly moved upkeep, troubleshooting, and risk onto the people living inside them.
Jun 21 · 5 min read
Undersea cables, data borders, and latency are turning the cloud back into something stubbornly physical.
Jun 8 · 5 min read
Repair is no longer mainly about parts and tools; it is about who is allowed to ask a machine what is wrong with it.
Jun 7 · 5 min read
Web apps have quietly closed the gap with native software — and the desktop app industry is pretending not to notice.
Jun 1 · 5 min read
Quantum computers exist, they work, and they still can't do most of what the press releases claim. Here's where the gap actually lives.
May 31 · 5 min read

Google's Gemini Spark shows how the AI race is shifting from standalone chatbots to bundled agents embedded in daily work.
May 21 · 5 min read
Large language models are the technology behind ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and most of the AI tools you've encountered in the last two years. Understanding what they actually are — not the hype version, not the sci-fi version — makes you better at using them and better at knowing when not to.
May 17 · 5 min read
AI agents are no longer a research curiosity. They're running in production, handling tasks that used to require a human in the loop. The question isn't whether they'll change work — it's how fast and in which directions.
May 17 · 4 min read
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