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In Praise of Dongles

There’s more to adapters than meets the eye

Jan 24, 2020

In Praise of Dongles

Jan 24, 2020

Software Used to Eat the World. The World is Biting Back

If anything is being eaten, it’s software companies as Series A round by Series B round, their stocks and voting rights are sold to…

Feb 9, 2024

Software Used to Eat the World. The World is Biting Back

Feb 9, 2024

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Debugger

An Ode to Undo

It’s not what you can do with computers, it’s what you can undo

Oct 30, 2021

An Ode to Undo

Oct 30, 2021

Social Media Platforms Are All the Same

And many of us are trying to quit them

Oct 19, 2021

Social Media Platforms Are All the Same

Oct 19, 2021

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Apple’s Malicious Compliance with Charger Regulations

The European Commission is about to force vendors to standardize connectors. But will Apple add USB-C to the iPhone?

Sep 29, 2021

Apple’s Malicious Compliance with Charger Regulations

Sep 29, 2021

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What Sort of Technology Adopter Are You?

Innovator or laggard? Do you hold back because you have refined tastes or because you are late to see the potential?

Sep 20, 2021

What Sort of Technology Adopter Are You?

Sep 20, 2021

Good Jobs and Selling Out

The judgments we cast on work

Aug 23, 2021

Good Jobs and Selling Out

Aug 23, 2021

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Age of Awareness

Our Strange Ideas About Owning Space

Who owns spaces on our planet (and beyond) and what does owning them mean?

Aug 22, 2021

Our Strange Ideas About Owning Space

Aug 22, 2021

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The Joys of Old-Fashioned, Low Tech Hardware

My clock isn’t smart, but it works even if US-East-1 is down

Aug 5, 2021

The Joys of Old-Fashioned, Low Tech Hardware

Aug 5, 2021

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How Easy Things Became Hard and Hard Things Became Easy

Hard computing problems have become either trivially easy or so impossibly difficult it’s not even worth trying anymore.

Jun 30, 2021

How Easy Things Became Hard and Hard Things Became Easy

Jun 30, 2021

Simon Pitt

Simon Pitt

he/him

Media techie, software person, and web-stuff doer. Head of Corporate Digital at BBC, but views my own. More at pittster.co.uk Newsletter: simonpitt.substack.com

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