Cricut’s $99 craft cutting machine helped me feel creative again
I’ve always been skeptical of products that claim to help you lead a more creative life. But one recently won me over. I’ve spent three weeks with the Cricut Joy 2, a smart cutting and drawing machine that made it easy for me to get back into making stickers, cards, bookmarks, and more. The small […]
I used NotebookLM to explain my own project, and it was better than my notes
I’ve been working on a book for longer than I’d like to admit. The notes exist as chapter outlines, themes, reference books, saved tweets, and half-formed ideas, all stored in an Obsidian vault. But bouts of procrastination, returning to my project feels like a meeting of a man and an alien. I thought I simply […]
I’m looking forward to using the new Philips Hue smart light sports sync feature during the World Cup — as long as it doesn’t signal goals too early
Philips Hue are getting a new Sports Live feature for the World Cup It will sync Hue smart lights to the action during games You don’t need any extra hardware, just the lights and the Hue app As a long-time Philips Hue user, and a big fan of this brand of smart lights, I’m looking […]
The RAM crisis is not just a PC nerd problem anymore
I live in a privileged tech bubble. My PC costs more than my car, and said system sports 64GB of DDR5 RAM. While my four 16GB sticks of Corsair Vengeance memory were hardly cheap when I picked them up two years ago, re-buying these modules at the time of writing would cost an unhinged amount. […]
What is the release date for The Testaments episode 8 on Hulu and Disney+?
We already know that nothing is what it seems in Gilead or The Testaments itself… but for Pearl Girl Daisy (Lucy Halliday), things are about to get all too dangerous. She’s been sent into Gilead on behalf of Mayday, and as each day passes, her secret gets closer to being revealed. Thankfully, Agnes (Chase Infiniti) […]
How to watch ‘BAFTA TV Awards’ online from anywhere — stream for free
The “BAFTA TV Awards” return on Sunday, May 10, with the 2026 ceremony airing from London’s Royal Festival Hall. Greg Davies is hosting this year’s event, which should make for a livelier night than usual. You can watch the “BAFTA TV Awards” online from anywhere with a VPN (try risk-free) – and potentially for free. […]
Your surge protector is silently failing—here’s how to tell
I’ve been building PCs for something around 20 years, and seeing as it’s a major hobby for me, I like to lurk around various PC building communities or talk to other PC owners. And one of the things that I see most often is worrying about the expensive stuff. Makes sense: if you spend over […]
LLM Summarizers Skip the Identification Step
takes a five-minute exchange and returns eight clean sections. Decisions. Action items. Risks. Open questions. Each section reads like it was written by someone who was paying attention. Read the underlying transcript, though, and you find that two of those sections were inferred from a single ambiguous sentence, one was invented entirely, and three were […]
Forget wall-mounted tablets—an E-Ink dashboard is what your smart home really needs
Smart home forums are full of posts from people showing off the incredible dashboards that they’ve created, often displayed on wall-mounted tablets. While these dashboards can show you a lot of information about your smart home, there are many ways in which a simple E-Ink dashboard is a better option. Why a tablet can fail […]
I’m a running coach: this is my long run survival kit for all eventualities, from the best watches and vest to the ideal phone to carry
I’ve been running for the past decade, and somewhere along the way I went from couch to coach. Since gaining my coaching qualification I’ve supported around 100 runners, from people taking their very first running steps to those tackling ultra marathon distances. One thing I didn’t expect when I started coaching was how often I’d […]