AndrewOConnorTech

Every now and then I get a bit of a tech flashback. Today I was thinking about the iPod. Remember that thing? One could argue that the iPod was a key part to the Apple renaissance in the new millennium. Not to downplay the Mac G3* but I think the iPod was a bigger (mainstream) … Continue reading “Remember the iPod?”

I’m not a big summer guy. I burn very easily, I don’t like being hot. I do enjoy golf but haven’t played much since we moved to Seattle. My other favorite sports aren’t in season. It’s just not for me. I really…really don’t like daylight savings time though. I get that it’s not technically a … Continue reading “Streetlights”

Decoder’s latest episode is an interview with Microsoft CTO, Kevin Scott. It’s an interesting interview with a lot of information on AI but mostly about how AI and websites work together in relation to discover ability. I’d recommend giving it a listen. There were 2 parts that stood out to me. The first was the … Continue reading “AI and the Front End”

I had a flashback today of those old Mac vs. PC ads. Do you remember those? Here is one of them.  It got me thinking, is the computer platform war over? There was a spicy time in the aughts and 2010s where you were either a Mac person or a PC person. At least in … Continue reading “Mac vs. PC”

Remote Working/Working from Home sure has a lot of hot takes…so I’m going to add to it. Well, I hope this isn’t a hot take. Just some thoughts and hopefully a fairly balanced take. Early on in my career, I was drawn to the idea of working from home. I realized pretty quickly that my … Continue reading “Remote Working Thoughts”

Fun fact about me, I’m a huge Liverpool fan. A friend in college was a soccer player and fan, and we ended up watching the Premier League most weekend mornings. After watching for a season, I picked a team and it was Liverpool. While I live on the other end of the globe, I feel … Continue reading “Liverpool win!”

The list of games to play is getting pretty long. Recently I have, That’s not even getting to a handful of other games I’ve heard great things about like Expedition 33. Scott Galloway has a great quote. “You can have it all, just not all at once” and my goodness it appears true for games … Continue reading “So Many Games”

Stumbled upon another view-transition thing that I think is very neat. You can change which class you’re targeting with a view transition and apply the effect to just that class. Here is how my site was working before. Basically “fade the whole page in and out”. Which works alright! I didn’t hate it. However, I … Continue reading “Another View-Transition Thing I Like”

Mark Cuban posted some BlueSky posts about AI and I had some thoughts on them.  If you have zero education, but learn how to ask AI models the right questions , in many jobs you will be able to outperform someone with an advanced degree, but who is unwilling to use Large Language Models. Just … Continue reading “Careful LLM Usage”

I’ve been kicking around a redesign for some time. By kicking around I mean “I’d like to do that” but making no other progress besides that. I’ve done a couple of updates over the years. Made a small adjustment with the blog boxes, and added view-transitions but I haven’t done a full on redesign in … Continue reading “Redesign Thoughts”