NHTSA targets Tesla’s FSD for removing radar and ultrasonic sensors – now, duh
NHTSA is going after Tesla. Yeah, I knew this day would come. Camera-only self-driving vehicles is such a stupid idea.
Category: The Narrative
Bad thing: folks are disabling the recording light on their smart glasses (and my preference)
I find this story disheartening. I really can’t think most folks who disable their recording light on their smart glasses are doing it for a good reason. ...
Reweaving the rainbow – where science, poetry, and the sublime cavort
What can I say? The ineffable Maria Popova has done it again. Thru a random encounter with a kindred spirit to, again, finding ‘divinations’ in what...
Why you: the sublime realism of Maria Popova
Maria Popova, writer of the Marginalian, a collection of dense, emotional, and inspiring writing, has a gift for touching the ineffable. She has a sublime (in t...
Highly suggestive uncertainty: Is Claude smarter than a puppy?
For almost 20 years, I, and some others, have been using puppies as a yardstick for smart things. We kinda push back at this idea that software and services nee...
How Creative Commons powers my designs
I remember the early days of Creative Commons. Such a subversive idea to make copyright so nuanced and so easily used. To me, the heart of it is all the folks w...
My first sales event on Grey and Slate, Haberdashers!
My first sales event on Grey and Slate™! All shirts 25% off thru 02 Dec for Etsy’s Black Friday promo. Hand-drawn circuits and maker references (NE555, op...
Did Qualcomm kill Arduino for good?
Six weeks ago, Qualcomm acquired Arduino. The maker community immediately worried that Qualcomm would kill the open-source ethos that made Arduino the lingua fr...
New watch, new discoveries
I went on a journey to get an analog field watch. I did get one I am happy with. But I learned a few interesting things along the way. Fine things are not for m...
Another data point on the eternal quest to not use smartphones (BONUS: data points from 2008, 2013, and 2017)
Back in 2008, I was the Editor-in-Chief for Nokia Conversations, the main Nokia blog. Like a good tech blog back then, in addition to industry news, product rev...