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Google gives in to users' complaints over AI-powered 'Ask Photos' search feature | TechCrunch The option appears on the Google Photos Search screen and lets users pick which experience they want.

This means you have a bad design and are now making it worse: techcrunch.com/2026/03/10/g...

Getting calendar spam? Fix: Google Calendar → Settings → Event settings → "Add invitations to my calendar" → change to "When I respond to the invitation in email." Legit invites still work — they just wait in your email until you accept. Ten seconds. Do it now.

EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch - IGN EA is laying off an unknown number of individuals from across its Battlefield teams, including workers at Criterion, Dice, Ripple Effect, and Motive Studios, IGN understands.

Good job on that successful launch! You're fired: www.ign.com/articles/ea-...

The One About ARC Raiders In our 96th episode, Rands goes deep (perhaps too deep) on ARC Raiders, an extraction shooter where trust is the real currency. Mentioned, referenced, or obses

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Hit and Run As you drive by a cyclist, you have one of three opinions: We're good. No issue. Everyone stayed in their lane. Something is up. What is this cyclist doi

It’s not a fair fight: randsinrepose.com/archives/hit...

It is 2026, and one of the most common ways to fix problems in Windows continues to be “restart the machine”.

The Complicators, The Drama Aggregators, and The Avoiders It's hard to tell what drives each human. This is why my usual last interview question is a very blunt, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" I ask everyon

What do you want to be when you grow up? randsinrepose.com/archives/the...

Does Congress have any power these days?

`I don’t understand folks who brag about spending a ton on tokens.`

Answer email/Slack/messages promptly, be unfailingly kind, and don’t be a jerk. The rest is details.

What's in the Nerd Bag? On the Pro Leisure Circuit, I'm spending a lot of time in random coffee shops. Cafe Dio in Los Gatos. Long-standing desk. View of the redwoods in front of my hi

Ready to go. Always prepared: randsinrepose.com/archives/wha...

Acme Weather

A new weather app? WHY YES. By the creators of Dark Sky? CAN I GET A HELL YES: acmeweather.com/blog/introdu...

Big Basin is one of the most magical places in NorCal, I camped there only a few weeks before it burned, and I have been dining on those memories ever since. I long to go back there and camp again someday.

Pretty sure that Trump doesn’t even know what he’s saying.

Fair.

Curious why?

Can I get a KALE TOO?

When it comes to music, the only question is whether Hysteria or Pyromania is a better Def Leppard album. And the answer is, I don’t know.

Extremely Lazy and Immensely Curious When I explain that Claude Code has changed my relationship with developing software completely, I'm under-exaggerating... if that's even a thing. This off-the

The hard part was never the code: randsinrepose.com/archives/ext...

Three Bad Managers I worked for each of these humans. They either hired or promoted me. I worked for them for many years. As is my way, I've vastly altered the details of each hum

You don't pick your bosses; you decide who you are with them: randsinrepose.com/archives/thr...

If you’re waiting on Knight of the Seven Kingdoms or are still simply mad about Game of Thrones, I highly recommend Episode 4, which brought me to tears.

I kind’a think club music sounds all the same, then Spotify sneaks a new track by OVERWERK in my playlist, and I realize I am quite wrong.

I suspect you are wrong.

I disagree. You gotta have the platform with the data.

Also, scrapppy sort'a suggests that you have some idea that you know what you're doing when it's FULL YOLO WTF. #respect

Hustle is what we call chaos to make it sound fun.

If you're wondering what's up in the markets.

So, Enterprise plays with shipping a good platform, and configuration/API/connector technology will be fine, but their service dollars are going to go way down, along with the disappearance of a lot of jobs. 😬

Enterprise software makes a huge amount of money on services, which are humans who build stuff specific to the customer on the Enterprise platform. Problem is: if you’ve built an OK platform and OK integration, you don’t need those humans anymore — thanks, robots!

Some engineers say “No,” and mean “No, we can’t.” Some engineers say “No,” and mean “No, but now I will think about it a lot.” The latter sometimes change to Yes delightfully unexpectedly.