Tag: Amazon
Leaven Launches First “Instant Sourdough” Starter Replacement on Amazon
San Diego, CA, June 1, 2026 — Let’s be completely candid: the sourdough craze that swept the globe during the pandemic was glorious, but it also left a trail of dead, neglected starters in its wake. The endless feeding, the temperature monitoring, the sheer commitment—it’s a lot for a busy life. But what if you […]
Grounding AI the webby way — Taxonomy Boot Camp London 2026 takeaways
There was a heavy focus on artificial intelligence. But what really struck me was that the semantic approaches that are preparing us for our AI future are well-established web standards that have been around for decades.
Project Code Name
Why do corporate restructuring plans get code names the way operating systems do? And why are the names often so bizarre?
The mad king’s digital killswitch
"The very worst-case speculative scenario for Huawei-as-Chinese-Trojan-horse is infinitely better than the non-speculative, real ways in which the US has killswitched and bugged the world's devices." Cory Doctorow explains why responsible governments should have to accelerate their countries' independence from US tech and not just Russian gas. pluralistic.net
When Smart Goes Dumb
We now have a lot of examples of cloud-enabled smart devices that don’t work anymore. What we don’t have is a plan B that prevents old gadgets from becoming garbage.
Everything To Everyone
Companies like Amazon and Apple are attempting to do business in so many spaces that, when the cracks show, they really show. Hence why Apple Intelligence looks like a hot mess right now.
Hyundai vehicles now available for purchase through Amazon Autos
Amazon has introduced a new platform called Amazon Autos, allowing vehicle shoppers in 48 U.S. cities to browse, order, finance, and schedule pick-up of Hyundai vehicles directly from participating local dealerships. This initiative aims to streamline the car-buying process, offering
Caught In The Middle
The mess with Bezos and The Washington Post is reflective of a trend that keeps popping up this year: The powerful entity stepping in it without considering the collateral damage.
Turn Off The Pillow Machines
Amazon’s plans to shift its packaging strategy points at a new front in the lengthy tug of war between paper and plastic—a war that started in grocery stores.
The Bargain Bin Evolves
Thoughts on modern commerce from going to a bin store. It’s a place where e-commerce returns go to die.
Blister In The Store
Why plastic blister packs and clamshell packs, despite the near-universal frustration they create among consumers, have become a truism of consumer goods.
Ink-Stained Pixels
The Kindle and the Nook have defined the eBook, but there are literally decades of prior art for this device—an idea many readers still haven’t warmed to.
Total Eclipse Of The Counterfeit
For all of Amazon’s successes, it has a major achilles heel, and a controversy around the fake solar eclipse glasses it was selling perfectly highlights it.
Hatching a Plan
If you can’t get your hands on a Hatchimal—even a full month after Christmas—maybe you should just buy some fertilized eggs and do it the way God intended.
.clusterfuck
Amazon has bid for .book and .author. Google has bid for .app and .love. Microsoft has bid for .docs and .live. American Express has bid for .open. Opening the top-level domain system is a great idea. There are just 22 generic top-level domains right now - .com, .org, .net and so on. (There are 280 country-related TLDs, like .us and .uk.) Because digital real estate has been so limited, the price of valuable words has skyrocketed, and domain name squatting - where a name is registered purely to
What I love about the Kindle…
…is not the device itself, but it is the whole ecosystem that surrounds it.
Failure is an option
As Software Engineers, we often tend to be overly optimistic about software. In particular, it often happens that we underestimate the probability of systems and components failures and the impact thi...
El conejo rosa llega a "la nube"
Pues parece que en Energizer, los dueños del famoso conejito rosa que tanto ha dado a la publicidad, llevan tres años experimentando con la nube de Microsoft (la cuenta la han pagado en Redmon).Interesante, aunque no deja de asustarme todo esto. Ya se que la escala hace todo rentable… pero el síndro
¿Por qué me pasa esto a mí?
Hace año y pico pasé días resolviendo problemas de compilación de Subversion 1.5 (por entonces en desarrollo) para conseguir un binario de Windows decente.Al día siguiente CollabNet inició el programa de betas proporcionando binarios para un montón de plataformas (Windows incluído, claro…)No hace ni
Amazon ya no está "en las nubes"
Pues eso, que desde hoy, Amazon proporciona almacenamiento persistente a sus instancias de “Elastic Computing Cloud” (EC2).Y no solo eso, que podría parecer facil dado que ya tienen su “Simple Storage Server” (S3, el guardian de mi musica por ahora), sino que añaden caracteristicas interesantísimas