This is what's happening to YouTube. This is one of my most popular videos. It's how to fix a UEFI bootloader. As you can see the traffic has been cut in half over the last 6 months. But if you Google how to fix a UEFI bootloader, Gemini will give you my exact step by step

Most poignant thing about the NYT interview is everyone involved is well past their 20s and is desperately trying to tirangulate their opinions on kindergarten-level moral questions so as to not run afoul of the most sociopathic 20-year-old leftists on social media

unpopular take: the most underrated piece of object engineering in your house is your front-load washer door seal. it's a torus of EPDM rubber (ethylene propylene diene monomer, picked because it survives hot water + detergent + bleach for 10+ years). it has 3 sealing lips,

BART spent $90 million on new fare gates. They're recovering about $10 million a year in fares. That's a 9-year payback on paper. The actual return hit in six months. Embarcadero station went from 112 hours of corrective maintenance in the six months before installation to 2

a visit from the gooning squad

So they're replacing the West Oakland BART parking lot with 240 units of housing, and someone isn't happy. I object.

Is Golden State the only state school in the NBA?

There's a common misconception that Brutalist buildings were unpainted, but thanks to microscopic analysis of the exteriors we can now recreate what they looked like in their prime.

no smoking safety first

If instead of taking what's given, you are allowed to choose from anything you can think of or imagine, your selections will inevitably become predictable and boring.

Enjoyed the little throwaway joke in Project Hail Mary referencing this. You can show your kids why it's funny. youtu.be/NWoyRlPOb3Q?si…

"Load bearing" is such an important phrase, how could we even describe something of great importance without it?

Great story. Heartbreaking. Trump promised to be the “most pro-farmer president.” He’s shaping up to be the pro-bankruptcy president. nytimes.com/2026/05/03/us/…

My policy on karaoke is pretty fluid.

This was fun to write

Tragic story of a confused young woman who leaves a wonderful guy at the altar to run off with a jerk.

Two months into his pontificate, a man named Robert Prevost picked up the phone from the Vatican and called his bank in South Chicago. He wanted to update the phone number on his account. The teller asked the standard security questions, and he answered every one of them. Then

One wealthy Massachusetts town’s housing plan won’t add much housing, and a local called them out. 🔗: on.wsj.com/4wnTQNK

A tattoo conveys a certainty of epistemology that I personally am not comfortable with.

So instead of a fruit and snack basket this year I sent my mom a bottle of Hibiki, cause we roll like that.