Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet.

With Sony clobbering the physical game market and Grand Theft Auto 6 eschewing discs entirely, it makes one long for kiosks that could make disks on demand—a model that actually once existed in the UK.Hey all, Ernie here with a quick piece from Matt Lee, who, like most of the rest o...

At what point do the creative limitations you create for yourself actually harm your ability to create? And what can ALF teach us about that?

One look at Paul Fusco’s IMDB page makes clear that he has not worked on anything but ALF since the early 1990s. He ...

Web forums were rough around the edges and faded in relevance as seemingly better options emerged. But what if we had stuck with them?Today in Tedium: Recently, I passed 20,000 followers on Bluesky, which I didn’t really say anything about. Sure, I thought about it, but then I had decided to myself, what’s the point? Soon, there will be another mark I can point ...

Who’s to blame for the memory crisis that turned Macs and Steam Boxes into unobtanium this week? The memory-makers have a convenient answer.

If I was Micron and everyone was hating on my company for making life just a little more unaffordable, I might try looking for a scapegoat, too.

But given how little the RAM folks have stuck their necks out in the y...

The high schooler who developed everyone’s forums and guestbooks in 1996 didn’t really think about security when he was building all that software. But Matt’s Script Archive was more than exploits.

Currently, I’m in the midst of writing a big post about the roots of web forums, but I hit on an aside weird enough that I decided to stop writing that and work on ...