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In Praise of Dongles

There’s more to adapters than meets the eye

11 min readJan 24, 2020

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In Praise of Dongles

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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…

6 min readFeb 9, 2024

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

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Debugger

An Ode to Undo

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

7 min readOct 30, 2021

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An Ode to Undo

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Social Media Platforms Are All the Same

And many of us are trying to quit them

6 min readOct 19, 2021

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Social Media Platforms Are All the Same

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OneZero

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?

8 min readSep 29, 2021

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Apple’s Malicious Compliance with Charger Regulations

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OneZero

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?

6 min readSep 20, 2021

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What Sort of Technology Adopter Are You?

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Good Jobs and Selling Out

The judgments we cast on work

6 min readAug 23, 2021

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Good Jobs and Selling Out

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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?

7 min readAug 22, 2021

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Our Strange Ideas About Owning Space

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Debugger

The Joys of Old-Fashioned, Low Tech Hardware

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

7 min readAug 5, 2021

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The Joys of Old-Fashioned, Low Tech Hardware

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OneZero

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.

5 min readJun 30, 2021

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How Easy Things Became Hard and Hard Things Became Easy

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Simon Pitt

Simon Pitt

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

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