
90s Kid - The PC Speaker Beep
Before the sound card loaded, one tiny speaker communicated entirely through judgmental beeps.

Before the sound card loaded, one tiny speaker communicated entirely through judgmental beeps.

I used to carry Windows, drivers, and half a repair shop in a giant CD binder. Now I talk to my phone and the computers do the walking.

Your computer called another computer that might allow exactly one visitor at a time.

From August 27 to September 26 I ran my IT business and my house with two AI coding agents. They logged 2,197 sessions and 136,476 tool actions and shipped 65 projects. Here’s the whole month, straight from the logs.

How Claude and I set up remote ADB over Tailscale that survives every reboot, so my AI can fix settings, clean up notifications and push app updates to my phones from anywhere. Plus the traps we fell into on the way.

You typed a full polite question into the internet and received twelve unrelated fan pages.

The website had no comments section, so strangers wrote in a public digital wedding book.

Before algorithms, websites held hands and passed you to the next person who loved the same obscure thing.

The website had one paragraph, seven animated workers, and a promise to return soon.

Plate readers, average-speed towers, gunshot sensors, surveillance trailers and a flood station in the mountains. Twelve kinds of unattended cameras, how to tell them apart, and what each one actually watches.