One of my hobbies is figuring out modern things to do with older computers, like web browsing and games. You may be surprised by the amount of activity in the PowerPC ecosystem in 2021, thanks to IBM, system builders like Raptor Computing Systems, and enthusiasts, including a group that’s pooling…

I have one more prediction about Bitcoin before I post my next essay about the state of Android and cross-platform GUI development. I recently learned about George Soros’s theory of reflexivity which explains so much about how markets often become detached from reality when pricing a new asset. At first…

I wanted to write a followup to my negative posts about Bitcoin because I have discovered that there is a positive side to cryptocurrency tech, although it took until very recently to evolve and brings risks of its own. I’m talking about the transition from electricity-wasting Proof-of-Work (PoW) to the…

Bill Gates didn’t get rich by telling anyone who would listen to him to buy Microsoft shares and that anyone who didn’t buy now before it goes up was a dimwitted Luddite who just didn’t “get it” and should “enjoy being poor!” Neither did any of the other monopolists we…

I’m a solution-oriented person, so I figured out a way to take care of the collective damage to our planet that we’re causing by chasing crypto tokens for greed. I think the solution will need to be along these lines, before we destroy our societies through depletion of the world’s…

This essay was inspired by a tweet praising NFTs for being somehow beneficial to women’s sports. That claim made me so angry that I wrote a thread about why NFTs and cryptocurrency in general are wrong, stupid, and the opposite of reality. Here’s a lightly-edited version in proper essay form. …

I haven’t been feeling good about myself or the world for over a year, so I haven’t been in the mood to write.

I’ve been fascinated by conspiracy theories, true and false, and over the years I’ve read quite a number of them. Unfortunately, in these strange times, many people have spent far too much of their time “going down rabbit holes” and sharing unreliable information. There’s a great French word for the…

I didn’t quit Twitter. In fact, I’ve been more active there than anywhere else. I’m going to write more about my hobbyist Android and NetBSD/vax projects here soon. Stay tuned!