I Was Going to Buy the 512GB Mac Studio M5 Ultra. Not Anymore!
I've written in several previous posts that when Apple released the Mac Studio M5 Ultra with 512GB of unified memory, I would upgrade from my current M3 Ultra…
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I Should Know Myself Better.
This morning I ended my post about the iPhone Duo with, “I shouldn’t be coding this weekend, but we’ll see how that works out.” Here I am about nine hours…
I Bought the Duo.
Around two weeks ago, I wrote that I was probably buying the iPhone Duo. It was released yesterday, and I managed to get one on release day. I picked it up in…
I Hope I Never Start Asking "What's the Point?"
On Thursday, Tesla demonstrated its new Roadster. A prototype drove upside down on a curved ramp, launched itself into the air, performed a flip using…
I Walked the Dog. Then I Preordered a Tesla Roadster.
I woke up this morning, walked the dog, came home and sat down with a hot cup of coffee. Opened X to see if anything interesting had happened overnight. I'd…
My Wife Had One Rule About Lingerie Photography
I've been sourcing products from China for about ten years now. One category we never really got into was lingerie, which is slightly strange because I've…
We Still Have Adobe Stock. We Just Don't Use It Much Anymore.
The news this week about Getty Images preparing for bankruptcy restructuring made me think about how little we use stock photography in our e-commerce business…
I Sold My Adobe Shares. Now I'm Building My Own Lightroom.
In June, I bought Adobe shares. The stock had taken quite a beating, and I got in at around $209. I simply thought it had fallen too far. At the end of July, I…
I Didn't Buy the Three-Fold. I'm Probably Buying the Duo.
Last year in Shenzhen (last week in October, almost a year ago), dinner with a couple of friends and two of the factory owners. One of them is probably worse…
She Thought It Was Another Hard Drive
My Wife Thinks I Bought Another Hard Drive My wife walked past the desk this morning, noticed the latest addition and said "oh you bought another hard drive"…
The Week the Labs Asked Us to Slow Down
Last weekend I put on Terminator 2 again. Same thought that had been sitting with me all week while I read about labs and agents and “pacing the frontier.” Me…
AMDs Threadripper Halo Station
AMD’s Threadripper Halo Station and NVIDIA’s DGX Station just showed up next to the Mac Studio M5 Ultra decision. A side-by-side on memory, bandwidth, power, and price for anyone weighing a personal supercomputer this year.
The Paperwork Is the Product
Running companies inside the EU means living under a permanent drizzle of new rules.
Why I Signed to Buy Quartr Shares
Quartr is not a secret. ARR at the end of Q2 2026 was 158 MSEK, more than double year-over-year. Retention looks healthy. The customer list is good. Altos…
Schools Are Doing the Calculator Thing Again
Schools want to ban AI the way they once wanted to ban calculators. Meanwhile my ten-year-old runs two animal-facts sites and reads every night — because we built him an app that turned reading into a game.