Scott Hill
Scott Hill
Scott W. Hill
I believe that one should control one’s writing and photographs, and this site is my home on the web for those things. I frequently post them other places too, but they generally start here. Other platforms are ephemeral—as evidenced by the many broken links here to things I found interesting in the past, but which weren’t cared for by their publisher—so I try not to post elsewhere, except as a copy.
Latest Posts
I’m not a huge ice cream consumer, but I found myself watching this video on YouTube where professional chefs try a frankly crazy number of vanilla ice cream varieties.Vanilla is one of my favorites, but it can be highly variable, as...
Now that I’ve had more time to work with the new ChatGPT app, I’m even more convinced that it’s a profound mistake on OpenAI’s part. But read on, because GPT-Live—also introduced this week—is compelling.Codex Ascendant, ChatGPT Bleeding...
Andrew Webster, writing at The Verge:Since its inception, Apple TV, née Apple TV Plus, has built a reputation on quality over quantity. It has far fewer shows and movies than the likes of Netflix or Disney Plus, but generally speaking,...
One of the things I like about the Mountain Bike World Cup is that the riders are so much more approachable. Watch these post-race interviews (or those from another race): they actually say things! It seems stupid to say that, but watch...
Charles Pulliam-Moore, writing at The Verge:What Netflix needs to really turn this ship around is to focus on producing the kind of programming that gets people locked in, and then actually sticking with it once shows manage to build...
From Apple’s filing:“As a natural result, OpenAI’s nascent hardware business now rests on the shakiest of foundations, rotten to its core by its illegal reliance on misappropriated trade secrets.”Oof, shots fired!
While the model updates seem good, the new app sucks hard. MG Siegler goes into it, so I’ll just link to that. It’s timely that Gruber has been going on about this in the past few days, just in time for OpenAI to make a real dog’s...
My first impressions of GPT 5.6 Sol are good—I shipped my first feature with it, and it seems like an improvement over 5.5, albeit not a giant one. It was also pretty slow, but that’s because everyone’s trying it out, I assume.
John Gruber, on the question of why Claude’s Mac app is an “Electron clunker”:Finding out that one guy — who is a senior Electron maintainer — has led the teams for the desktop clients for Slack, Notion, and now Claude is like...
Casey Liss, responding to the recent Decoder episode where Nilay Patel interviewed Rivian CEO Wassym Bensaid, and of course, discussed Rivian’s decision to not offer CarPlay in its vehicles:CarPlay is optional. CarPlay is...
Philip Michaels, writing at Six Colors, on the topic of autoplaying previews in Apple TV apps:Should Apple impose some order on tvOS apps and require some degree of standardization when it comes to autoplay settings? Or should it go one...
Jack Loftus, at McSweeney’s:Every serious legal mind must inevitably face a fundamental choice: Read the Constitution and apply its words as the bedrock laws of the land, or transcend its tired text and interpret the super-secret...
George Thomas, writing at The Atlantic:Yesterday, Chief Justice John Roberts delivered what conservative originalists have long been rooting for: overturning Humphrey’s Executor v. United States. That 90-year-old decision, which the...
Austin Parsons, writing at Car and Driver:The headlight design is functional and aesthetic, incorporating the low-beams, daytime running lights, side lights, and turn signals into a single unit. If the look is a little too on-the-nose...
The Supreme Court of the United States, with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., writing for the majority:Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights—to freely participate in our political community. The Framers of the...