Friday Wrap
Friday Wrap : Volume Four
Living brain computers, North Korean spies and dodgy AI datasets aplenty in this Friday Wrap.
Media
Things TV always gets wrong about tech
Zoom! Enhance! Trace his IP! What's your pet peeve when technology appears in TV shows?
Friday Wrap
Friday Wrap: Volume Three
The latest AI and tech stories to catch my eye w/e July 18th 2025
Friday Wrap
Friday Wrap: Volume Two
The second weekly round up of AI and other tech news stories from the past seven days.
Web Dev
Thank you for calling Web Dev. How may we complicate things for you?
How web development became a never-ending spiral into greater complexity and frustration.
Friday Wrap
Friday Wrap: Volume One
A round-up of AI-related news from the web.
AI
When the AI bubble bursts
Sooner or later the current AI bubble is going to burst. What's going to happen when it does?
Nostalgia
The "glamour" of 1980s computer magazines
Ah, the 1980s! The decade of decadence. Suits with shoulder pads. Dance music workouts with Jane Fonda in leg-warmers. Home computers with rudimentary graphics and sound. *record scratch* Wait. Home computers? How do you make those beige plastic boxes with cassette recorders and televisions for monitors look glamorous? That was
AI
Why is AI so popular when nobody wants it?
Why is AI getting so much attention when it seems that there is limited actual demand for it?
Retro Futurism
Television of the retro-future
Welcome to the world of tomorrow's television as seen from 1978 in this children's book that predicted the future.
Nostalgia
In the 1980s we also downloaded software from TV
Explore with me two fascinating techniques for encoding software in analogue TV signals
Nostalgia
Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio
So there I was, minding my own business, doom-scrolling my way through Facebook posts when I happened upon one that hit me straight in the nostalgia. A photo of a 1980s home computer, a cassette player and some tapes. The text underneath proclaimed "In the 1980s, people could download