A microphone and four-button controller turning a rough voice waveform into clean text on a computer and phone

Wispr Flow Is Great Dictation, Not a Transcript

I wired Wispr Flow to a four-button controller, used it across Windows and Android, and learned exactly where its AI cleanup helps—and where it quietly changes the record.

September 1, 2026 · 12 min · 2466 words · Justin
You hammered one function key during boot and hoped Windows entered its beige emergency bunker.

90s Kid - Press F8 for Safe Mode

You hammered one function key during boot and hoped Windows entered its beige emergency bunker.

August 25, 2026 · 3 min · 491 words · Justin
Three keys formed the emergency exit, provided your fingers could reach all of them at once.

90s Kid - Ctrl Alt Delete

Three keys formed the emergency exit, provided your fingers could reach all of them at once.

August 24, 2026 · 3 min · 607 words · Justin
The computer replaced everything with blue text and made the youngest person in the house the incident commander.

90s Kid - The Blue Screen

The computer replaced everything with blue text and made the youngest person in the house the incident commander.

August 23, 2026 · 3 min · 588 words · Justin
The computer finished shutting down, then politely waited for a human to finish the electricity.

90s Kid - It Is Now Safe to Turn Off Your Computer

The computer finished shutting down, then politely waited for a human to finish the electricity.

August 21, 2026 · 3 min · 535 words · Justin

The App That Wouldn't Open After an Update

A desktop app auto-updated, swallowed its own window, and hung forever — and the fix had nothing to do with the install.

June 5, 2026 · 4 min · 768 words · Justin

The Backup That Hung Forever on OneDrive

A Kopia job sat at 0% all night because it tried to read files that didn’t actually exist on disk yet.

April 22, 2026 · 5 min · 888 words · Justin

Making a Python Script a Real Service

The script worked perfectly — right up until I closed the terminal and watched it die.

April 6, 2026 · 4 min · 678 words · Justin

When Your Backup Client Lies About Its Name

A green-lit backup agent that hadn’t saved a single byte in weeks, because the machine and the server disagreed about what it was called.

February 27, 2026 · 4 min · 795 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Family Computer in the Living Room

There was exactly one computer, it lived in the living room, and the whole family had to take turns being kings of it.

February 19, 2026 · 3 min · 483 words · Justin