Category Archives: Tech Essays

DuckDuckGo finds itself again dealing with the fallout of Bing being Bing.

The story of how I switched from my Murena Teracube 2e phone to a Google Pixel 3a XL running LineageOS without having planned to do so.

Substack’s view that its Notes platform is not a Twitter clone misses the forest through the trees.

An essay which describes personal blogs as the soul of the web leads me to consider personal blogs as the centerpiece of a social web.

An in-depth look at the outside world from Bing Jail.

Making the case for whitelisting Seznam and other good crawlers from independent index search engines.

Making the case for a feed reader + read-it-later solution as an online reading alternative to social media and services like Google and Apple News.

When tech goes from a tool to enhance the classroom to a means to transform the classroom.

Little did I know that “include one number” and “include one symbol” took “one” very seriously…

Wherein I offer concept art (a photograph) of what the ideal phone would look like.

If Bing blacklists a site in its index from appearing to searchers, will it still use the site to inform its ChatGPT implementation? A simple question for Microsoft.

When you purchase a digital ebook in one format only to have Amazon replace it with an inferior format.