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anderegg.ca | Something (slightly) less boring than nothing.Something (slightly) less boring than nothing.anderegg.ca | Something (slightly) less boring than nothing. anderegg.ca Home Projects About Archives Some spoiler free thoughts about the first episode of "Jet Lag: The Game" season 13 March 5, 2025 Tom Scott is playing to win. Read more » Maze Mice February 25, 2025 I was late to the party, but I played Luck Be a Landlord last year and really enjoyed it. It’s a deckbuilder where you build combos by manipulating the icons in your custom slot machine. I linked above to the Steam page, but it’s on just about every platform — I played through it on iOS. Read more » Sequoia's "Macintosh" screen saver and old Control Panels February 24, 2025 I was recently on-site with a client and noticed that one person was using the new “Macintosh” screen saver that was added in macOS Sequoia. If you haven’t seen it, here’s a video of it in action. Read more » Algorithms are breaking how we think February 22, 2025 Today, Alec Watson posted a video titled “Algorithms are breaking how we think” on his YouTube channel, Technology Connections. The whole thing is excellent and very well argued. The main thrust is: people seem increasingly less mindful about the stuff they engage with. Fewer people are reaching out for stuff to read/watch/listen to, and are letting systems control that for them. Watson argues that this is bad, and I agree. Read more » Two flavours of open social media January 14, 2025 Yesterday, the Mastodon team announced it would be handing over control of its project to a new non-profit organization. The timing of this announcement is perfect given everything that’s happening with WordPress, Meta, and… well, everything else. To date, I think Eugen Rochko has done an excellent job stewarding Mastodon, but I also might have said the same thing about Matt Mullenweg a few years back. Why gamble when you can set up safeguards? Read more » WordPress is in trouble January 11, 2025 Since I last wrote about WordPress, things have gone off the rails. This after a brief period when things were blissfully quiet. Matt Mullenweg stopped commenting for a while, though his company had launched WP Engine Tracker — a site for tracking WordPress-driven websites that moved away from WP Engine. I think this is a bit gauche, but it seems like fair marketing given everything that’s going on. It should be noted that many sites are leaving for Pressable — owned by Mullenweg’s company, Automattic — because of a sweetheart deal. Read more » Apple and the AI divide January 7, 2025 This morning I read a 404 Media article about Instagram showing people ads with AI-generated images of themselves. I thought this take from Sam Biddle was very good: Read more » A look back at 2024, and what's next for 2025 December 31, 2024 At the end of last year, I wrote about wanting to focus on the web in 2024. How did that shake out? Read more » More articles » Content and design © 2025, Gavin Anderegg — powered by Jekyll and GitHub Pages This website does not use any cookies. Tinylytics is used to gather anonymized web stats Follow me on Mastodon     Follow me on Bluesky  enen1771436401https://anderegg.ca

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