Thoughts on Technology

Interesting article about how food delivery like Uber Eats and DoorDash, accelerated mightily by COVID, transformed the restaurant industry to its current state, where “nearly three out of every four restaurant orders [are] not eaten in a restaurant”.

It’s a false premise that GM must offer either its “deeply integrated experience” OR CarPlay. GM doesn’t want to offer CarPlay next to their own experience, not because they can’t, but because they know that people want the apps that are on their phones, not GM’s.

Ads like these are product cancer. Apple made its success by offering the best experience for people who paid the premium for its offerings. This is a terrible direction.

Here’s a bit of context about the “unfortunately” comment in that last post about _The Online Photographer_.

Too bad. I probably wouldn’t do it for this one anyway, but the ease of Apple’s trade-in (vs. selling it myself) might have been a factor in my decision to upgrade at a later time.

The TiVo really was a revolution in the way TV worked, at least for me. I was sad that it went the way it did, the company went from being truly innovative to purely a patent troll. Still, I have fond memories….

I wasn’t in too much danger of buying a GM vehicle at this point, but this definitely kills even the remote chance that did exist.

This was one of the easiest Rails upgrades I’ve done yet. Also, since I’ve been posting about using AI agents, and here’s what deploying the newly updated app looked like.

This post about the RubyGems situation seems to round up the various accounts I’ve read separately and corral them into a single location. I think that having RubyGems and Bundler taken over by Ruby Core makes sense for the stability of the ecosystem.