Scott Hill
Scott Hill
Scott W. Hill
I believe that one should control one’s writing and photographs, and this site is my home on the web for those things. I frequently post them other places too, but they generally start here. Other platforms are ephemeral—as evidenced by the many broken links here to things I found interesting in the past, but which weren’t cared for by their publisher—so I try not to post elsewhere, except as a copy.
Latest Posts
RAMmageddon continues to rock the industry: The price increases that Tim Cook warned were coming landed today, across almost all Apple products. And boy, they’re not small increases, especially for higher-end configurations. The MacBook...
This week’s Decoder is probably my favorite episode so far. It is a really thoughtful conversation with Patreon CEO Jack Conte, discussing what’s changed for that company in the past five years. One of the really interesting bits is...
There have been articles that excerpt from the new book by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan all over, and this one from WIRED has a few interesting nuggets, including this infuriating one:And over dinner at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club,...
Very cool. The site is slammed, and I haven’t been able to log in to my account because of it, but it’s certainly a nice way to celebrate the 250th.In honor of Juneteenth and the 250th anniversary of American independence, California is...
Look, I was a pretty big Commodore fan back in the day. I learned BASIC on a Commodore PET, and I owned C64s and several models of Amiga. But this? This is like some kind of fever dream.
I’ve never had any Roku devices, but if you do, it might be time to punt them.It doesn’t sound like the plan is to build Roku and Fox into a walled ecosystem, but the Roku home screen will be used to promote Fox content.
Mark Leibovich, writing at The Atlantic:As with pretty much everything involving California governance, discerning the state’s election results can devolve into a big, unruly mess. To wit, Tuesday’s primary—particularly the free-for-all...
On one hand, the idea that my smart glasses could remind me of someone’s name when I see them is close to the top feature I can imagine for them; I’m terrible at remembering names on the fly. On the other, the very fucking last company...
The SpaceX IPO is all over the news right now, and one of the bits I find fascinating (and scary) is the idea that extraordinary changes have been made to some of the stock indexes that will affect not just investors in individual...
Less than a month ago, I wrote a post about “Novel Computing Devices”, particularly the c100 by Caligra. Well, it’s now shipping. I’m not sure why—it’s easy to assume it’s due to RAMmageddon—but it ships with 64 GB RAM instead of the 96...
This episode of The Daily from The New York Times is an incredible piece of reporting on a terrible outbreak of a rare strain of Ebola in Central Africa. As far from perfect as the NYT has been at home, on our local politics, this is the...
RIP Charlie CunninghamMountain bike pioneer Charlie Cunningham has passed away at the age of 78. A bike accident in 2015 resulted in a serious head injury, and in recent years he’d been living in a care facility in California. Charlie...
I just went to The Hollywood Reporter website to read an article about Scott Pelley’s response to his firing from 60 Minutes, but had to click through so much crap to get to to it, and then suffer a barrage of intrusive ads in, over, and...
I was about to post about this, but Kottke did such a great job of it, I’ll just point you to his.We spent six years contemplating a fascist takeover of a galaxy far, far away. Six years thinking about what happens to ordinary beings...
Joanna Stern, now on her own at New Things, has a great new video that looks into the trend of people modifying their Meta Ray-Ban glasses so that they can record without the light that normally alerts people to the fact that they’re...