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@harrymccracken@mastodon.social · Mar 01, 2026

About to go live on TWiT: http://live.twit.tv

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@harrymccracken@mastodon.social · Feb 22, 2026

The protests at our local Tesla store continue, and now include a frog and a unicorn.

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@harrymccracken@mastodon.social · Feb 18, 2026

Very sorry to hear about the death of Aldus founder Paul Brainerd, the giant who gave us PageMaker and the desktop publishing revolution that followed. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, I used PageMaker to put together my animation fanzine, which led directly to my career in tech journalism. RIP.

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@harrymccracken@mastodon.social · Feb 18, 2026

Here's my Arctic Adventure 2026 game just on its own standalone page, rather than embedded in a lengthy explanation of exactly what the hell it is. https://www.arctic81.com/arctic-adventure.html

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@harrymccracken@mastodon.social · Feb 16, 2026

With Claude Code's help, I reimagined my high school text adventure for this century, complete with sinful luxuries like graphics, animation, and sound effects. Over at Technologizer, I wrote about the weird experience of collaborating with AI and teenage me. https://technologizer.com/home/2026/02/16/arctic-adventure-2026/

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@harrymccracken@mastodon.social · Feb 15, 2026

All TRS-80 Videotex users were white men, and a surprising percentage were thoughtfully stroking their chins.

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@harrymccracken@mastodon.social · Feb 14, 2026

Ronald Reagan, apparently trying out a snazzy touch-screen TRS-80 Model III, circa 1983. (I am assuming the computers to his right spelled out "R E A G A N" and that he didn't personally write the BASIC code involved.

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@harrymccracken@mastodon.social · Feb 13, 2026

This week’s Plugged In newsletter: I asked Claude Opus 4.6 to critique that viral blog post about AI, and was startled by how perceptive it was. https://www.fastcompany.com/91491419/matt-shumer-something-big-is-happening

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@harrymccracken@mastodon.social · Feb 07, 2026

I don't think I've ever seen AI say "HOLY COW!" before.

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@harrymccracken@mastodon.social · Feb 06, 2026

Never blame anything on a staffer or an intern. Particularly if you did it.

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@harrymccracken@mastodon.social · Feb 06, 2026

Among the Super Bowl’s many impressive qualities is that it’s managed to make driving impossible in San Francisco this whole week, despite the fact that it’s not happening for another couple of days and won’t be played here.

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@harrymccracken@mastodon.social · Feb 06, 2026

I forgot I wrote this story, in a very different time. (Offering its CMS as a service didn’t end up bolstering the Post’s fortunes.) https://www.fastcompany.com/40495770/the-washington-post-is-a-software-company-now

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@harrymccracken@mastodon.social · Feb 06, 2026

I wrote about AI taking over software development in general, my experience with Claude Code in particular, and this guy named Edsger Dijkstra who thought normal people shouldn’t even try to program computers. https://www.fastcompany.com/91485494/vibe-coding-with-claude-code

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@harrymccracken@mastodon.social · Feb 04, 2026

“Democracy Dies in Darkness” now seems like a tagline that can’t be shed—no matter what—because of what people would day if it went away.

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@harrymccracken@mastodon.social · Feb 04, 2026

I’m hoping that “it” is my sanity back.

(All of a sudden, I’m getting daily Trumpy texts like this. I’m not sure if they’re scammy or just spammy.)

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@harrymccracken@mastodon.social · Feb 04, 2026

What are the chances that the people currently running the company will lead it out this this? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/business/media/washington-post-layoffs.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JlA.MfCF.jQ5uqT7LjKBH&smid=bs-share

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@harrymccracken@mastodon.social · Feb 04, 2026

Huang: “When a group in my company says they want to use AI, my answer is yes. And then I ask why.” But “A thousand flowers blooming makes for a messy garden … I haven’t started curating yet.”

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@harrymccracken@mastodon.social · Feb 04, 2026

Jensen Huang at Cisco AI Summit: “Up until now, chatbots [have been] interesting and curious, but not useful.”

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@harrymccracken@mastodon.social · Feb 03, 2026

Box’s Aaron Levie: Instead of AI agents adjusting to our ways, “We’re going to have to adjust to how agents work. It’s not a settled problem.”

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@harrymccracken@mastodon.social · Jan 25, 2026

It’s the 42nd anniversary of Steve Jobs unveiling the Mac, so here’s my 2014 article on him showing it off at the Boston Computer Society six days later, with video. (It’s better quality than the video of the earlier event, which was so bad John Sculley apologized for it.) https://time.com/1847/steve-jobs-mac/

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@harrymccracken@mastodon.social · Dec 25, 2025

For Christmas: Grandma McCracken’s chocolate cookies, the best in the world.

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@harrymccracken@mastodon.social · Dec 24, 2025

In the end, DOGE will be remembered for the many deaths and other forms of misery it needlessly inflicted on the U.S. and the world, not whether it saved any money. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/us/politics/doge-musk-trump-analysis.html

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@harrymccracken@mastodon.social · Nov 21, 2025

This guy’s legacy is incredible (and Mr. Machine deserves more than a passing mention). https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/arts/design/burton-meyer-dead.html

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