Jul 11 2026
We’ve already established that Zoom was a digital waiting room for the damned. It was a piece of software that turned our homes into open-plan offices and our personal lives into a series of “connection unstable” warnings. But even though the world has reopened and we are once again allowed to look at other humans …
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Jul 11 2026
For years, Apple Pages was a rare oasis of sanity. You opened it, you saw a beautifully blank, white sheet of paper, and you wrote. It didn’t judge you. It didn’t bother you. It just sat there, quietly doing exactly what it was told. But now, some bright spark at Apple has looked at this …
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Jul 11 2026
Despite spending literal hours tethered to our smartphones every single day, the vast majority of us barely ever scratch the surface of what these astonishing little machines are actually capable of achieving. We have become entirely conditioned, almost like laboratory mice, to interact with our glass screens through a series of frantic, hyper-impatient muscle movements. …
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Jun 15 2026
Let me tell you something about the people who design software at Apple. They are, without question, some of the most talented, best-paid, and catastrophically wrong human beings on the planet. They sit in their glass building in Cupertino, California and they think to themselves: “You know what users want? The opposite of what they’ve …
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Jun 15 2026
Usually, my scorn, my irritation, my peeve, is directed at the ACT Government and their relentless building apartments, or the weather which has decided to turn the sky into a permanent grey sponge. But today, my rage has a new target. It is the internet. Or more specifically a constant irritation (and not to mention …
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