Tech Stories from a Human perspective.

I like building websites. But in some circles, I might as well say that I like to drive to the forest before sunrise, chop down a tree, load it in my trunk, and gather some dry wood as well, then drive back before first light. All this just to use the wood to start a fire and cook breakfast for my family in our high-rise apartment. It makes no sense.

Imagine being worth $2 billion. Would you give away $550 million? That's a quarter of your wealth, more money than I could spend in several lifetimes. Yet that's how much Evan Spiegel, the CEO of Snapchat, and his wife have donated to a charity in California. Specifically, they donated to Undue Medical Debt, an organization that buys Californians' medical debts and expunges them. That's close to $9,200 for each recipient. A noble act.

Amazon has been accused several times for ripping off merchants on its platform. And every single time they denied any wrongdoing.

I've always been interested in how dating apps work. You really only have two choices if you want to get in the business.

I don't understand why this generation can't afford a home. When my grandfather was 18, he had already saved enough money from his paper route and various odd jobs to buy his first home. By the time my father turned 26, he was already married, had his first child, and was moving into his first home. We lived frugally, and our parents taught us the value of spending wisely.

The Washington Post reported that [the US government will decide who can use state-of-the-art LLMs](https://archive.ph/PCQQl). After the ban of Fable and the limitations coming to ChatGPT 5.6, what's next? My bet is Chinese models.