If I had a dollar for every time a client told me "the button is still blue" after I deployed a fix, I'd have retired to a vineyard in Tuscany by now. Browsers are aggressively…
Marketing departments love big numbers because they assume you failed high school physics. If I had a dime for every time someone complained that their "10,000mAh" power bank only charged their 4,000mAh phone twice before…
There is no greater lie in the tech industry than the "Up to 1050 MB/s" sticker on an external drive box. I have a drawer full of "high-speed" drives that throttle down to 1998 floppy…
There is nothing quite like the panic of seeing the "iPhone needs to cool down before you can use it" screen right when you are trying to pull up a QR code for a flight.…
I hate mornings. I hate them even more when my first interaction with the world is a blindingly bright screen and a barrage of unread Slack notifications. For years, I did what everyone else does:…
This is easily top three on my list of "Most Useless Windows Error Messages." You are in the middle of a render, a game, or even just watching a 4K YouTube video, and suddenly the…
You clicked the wrong "Download" button on a driver update site, didn't you? Now your default search engine is "SafeSearch24," your fan is spinning like a jet turbine while looking at a blank desktop, and…
Switching operating systems is less like moving into a new house and more like trying to write with your non-dominant hand while someone shouts instructions at you in a language you only half-understand. I’ve done…
The students keep telling me the AI tutor “gave the wrong answer” or the LMS shows a string of Import Error: invalid CSV messages after a bulk grade upload — and that’s the specific annoyance that pushed…
I spent my entire Sunday afternoon fixing my neighbor's laptop because he clicked a link promising a "free driver update" and ended up with a siren blaring out of his speakers telling him the FBI…
