AI Benchmarks Have Become a Marketing Department
The numbers labs publish to sell their models tell you almost nothing about how those models perform on your actual work.
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AI Search Is Getting Better at Answers and Worse at the Web
The more AI search improves at giving you what you asked for, the more it hollows out the ecosystem that made the answers possible.
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Anker's MagSafe Charger Finally Gets the Angle Right
The Anker 313 MagSafe stand isn't glamorous, but it's the first third-party option that doesn't feel like a compromise.
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The Touchpad on Your Windows Laptop Is Still an Afterthought
Apple set the standard for laptop trackpads over a decade ago. Windows hardware still hasn't caught up - and it's not really about the hardware.
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Context Windows Got Huge and Nobody Knows What to Do With Them
Million-token context windows were supposed to change everything. In practice, most people are still pasting in three paragraphs.
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Android's Theming Problem Is a Design Problem
Android lets you change almost everything about how your phone looks. That freedom has quietly become a liability.
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Obsidian 1.x on Mobile Is Good Software Trapped in the Wrong Habit
Obsidian's mobile app has quietly become capable. The problem is how most people are still trying to use it.
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The USB-C Cable Lottery Is Still Happening, and Nobody Warned You
Not all USB-C cables are the same, and the ones that came in the box almost certainly aren't doing your hardware justice.
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The Reasoning Model Hype Is Hiding a Billing Problem
Reasoning models cost significantly more to run than standard models - and most products built on them haven't figured out who absorbs that.
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The Subscription Model Has Peaked, and Software Companies Are Starting to Feel It
After a decade of converting everything to monthly billing, the software industry is hitting resistance it can't simply UI-dark-pattern its way out of.
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Obsidian for iOS Is Finally Good, and That's a Problem for Notion
Obsidian's mobile app used to be an afterthought. The 2025 overhaul changed that - and it quietly reshapes the note-taking market.
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