More people use Windows 10 than Windows 11, but later this year Windows 10 will stop getting security updates. What does that mean? I explained over at WIRED and outlined your options. In summary: you can upgrade, you can get a new computer, or you can switch to a different operating system. I also wrote a few articles […]

It’s been over a decade since Microsoft removed Minesweeper from Windows. If you don’t go a single day without thinking about this loss you might want to read How to get Minesweeper and seven other classic games back in Windows 11 over at Lifehacker. Here’s a few other things I published in the last week.  Stuff to check […]

The more you learn about a subject the less capable you are of understanding what the average person knows about it. In journalism this can result in articles that are incomprehensible to anyone who doesn’t have the proper background. It can also result in information not being published because it seems too obvious.  For example: […]

I had a lot of fun learning how to volunteer online for The National Archive. I spent a few hours transcribing letters by a man who wrote the government to talk about the UFO he saw, during which he emphasized many times that he was not drinking. Dive in next time you feel bored.  Stuff you […]

If you want to understand America, spend some time in thrift stores. These are monuments to our collective excess—a museum of the things we’ve collected and discarded.  I love digging through the electronics shelves looking for potentially useful adapters or devices. I also get most of my clothes from the racks there, mostly for environmental […]

Over at WIRED I wrote a quick guide to visualizing what’s taking up room on your hard drive. I hope this empowers people to track down the large files that are filling up their device instead of just buying a bigger hard hard drive.  Computer parts are about to get a lot more expensive in the United States of America […]

Writing isn’t just my job—it’s how I think. When I’m not sure what I feel about something I start typing. I put down ideas, contemplate whether I agree with what I just wrote, and in this process figure out how I feel.  A lot of my blog posts start as me playing around with ideas. […]

Last week I explained how to tell if Jeffery Goldberg, Editor of the The Atlantic, is is your group chat, which is obviously among he most important privacy articles I’ve ever written. But it wasn’t the only privacy piece I wrote: I also I talked to a number of privacy and security experts to write a […]

It’s one of those patterns you can’t stop noticing once you think about it.

I regularly go through everyone I’m following on social media and remove accounts I’m not enjoying or learning from anymore. I’ve been doing this for a long time, as a way to take control over what I’m paying attention to. I talked about this lost art of cleaning out your feed for PopSci. Here’s a couple other things […]