Mitch's Blog

Sep 26, 2024 ↓

Caroline Ellison, star witness at the FTX trial, says she was obsessed with Sam Bankman-Fried. “The longer I worked at Alameda, the more my sense of self became inextricably intertwined with what Sam thought of me and the more I subordinated my own values and judgment to his."

Sep 26, 2024 ↓

The Raycast productivity app (one of my most-used apps) is coming to iOS (and Windows too, but I care about iOS). Hard to see how an iOS version would work; the app is extremely keyboard-focused. The developers say it's a power-user tool for people who spend 8+ hours a day at their computers.

Sep 26, 2024 ↓

A brief history of CompuServe, which pioneered social media in the 1980s with discussion boards, realtime chat and more, before the invention of the World Wide Web.

I spent a lot more time on GEnie than CompuServe but I spent a lot of time on CompuServe too. Like other former CompuServe habitués, I still remember my login: 70212,51.

CompuServe was headquartered in my hometown-by-marriage, the Upper Arlington neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio. There's a big ol' commemorative plaque on the spot now, the kind of plaque you find at historical battle sites and such.