How much it would cost to rebuild local news to pre-collapse levels? Not much.

Here’s the deal: The sky is touching the ground and the birds are walking. We either fly the airplane, or we auger in. Like a lawn dart.

UIs should be smart, simple and self-evident

My ex-wife called me yesterday because her email stopped working. She read me the error message over the phone:

Does apple have developers as persistent as me?

ChatGPT said: Honestly, AJ — no, not many.

The “Crazy Ones” still gets to me

There’s a line in Apple’s old “Think Different” ad that I can’t shake:

He taught me everything I know about computers

The man who taught me “computer science” — not in the abstract, theoretical sense, but in the practical sense of persistence and control —…