David Pierce

In case you missed it over the holiday weekend, our friends over at MKBHD put together a cool explainer on transistors, semiconductors, Moore’s Law, and how remarkably tiny our electronics have become. It’s all useful info, but the production quality is just *chef’s kiss.* (The Epic Spaceman video Marques shouts out at the end is also very much worth a watch.)

For its 100th anniversary, The New Yorker put its entire magazine archive online. (For paid subscribers, anyway.) You can browse by issue, but the NYer is also using AI to make it easier to search for subjects and topics, and to summarize each article so you know what you’re getting into before you accidentally sign up for a million words about elevators. But honestly, read the elevator story. It rules.

I saw someone on Threads the other day say, basically, “I know GChat is technically still a thing, but does anyone actually use it?” Google sure hopes you do — and it’s turning it into something much more like Slack. The new thing is that you can pipe RSS feeds into Chat, where they can appear in real time in whatever group you want. It’s a good idea! We have a bunch of RSS feeds funneling into our Slack. But I’d rather just have Google Reader back.