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FatBits Archive
From 2005 to 2011, I had a “staff journal” at Ars Technica called FatBits. An archive of my FatBits articles is included on this website with permission from Ars Technica. A link back to the original version is included at the bottom of each article page.
2011
- Steve Jobs: a personal remembrance – October 5, 2011
- The Apple Strategy Tax – March 2, 2011
2010
- Apple’s trouble with TV – September 2, 2010
- Can you buy me now? Apple and the war for the mobile market – August 5, 2010
- iPhone 4 antenna: unanswered questions, unearned trust – July 17, 2010
- Apple’s wager – April 12, 2010
- Antacid tablet – January 1, 2010
2009
- Metadata madness – September 23, 2009
- Hypercritical – May 6, 2009
- Ars Technica announces its last year of Macworld keynote bingo – January 3, 2009
2008
- Fearless – December 17, 2008
- Straight out of Compton – September 2, 2008
- Snowed out – June 9, 2008
- WWDC 2008 keynote bingo – June 5, 2008
- Rhapsody and blues – April 3, 2008
- Can’t help falling in love – March 7, 2008
- Knee-deep in the dead – February 3, 2008
- Great. Expectations. – January 12, 2008
- MWSF 2008 keynote bingo – January 7, 2008
2007
- Stuck on the enterprise – August 9, 2007
- Let a million iPhones bloom – July 2, 2007
- A sort of homecoming – July 1, 2007
- Bingo Blues – July 1, 2007
- WWDC 2007 keynote bingo – June 8, 2007
- The Frontier – June 4, 2007
- The Message – January 20, 2007
- Some kind of “world” anyway… – January 11, 2007
- MWSF 2007 keynote bingo – January 7, 2007
2006
- Game over, man – December 22, 2006
- Top Secret – November 20, 2006
- It’s-a me! (again) – November 5, 2006
- Next Generation – October 22, 2006
- Open Apple – October 12, 2006
- LLVM and OpenGL revisited – August 22, 2006
- Time Machine and the future of the file system – August 17, 2006
- Bingo bust – August 9, 2006
- Can't stop the bingo! – July 29, 2006
- Shuffled WWDC keynote bingo cards – July 25, 2006
- WWDC keynote bingo – July 23, 2006
- Free WWDC – July 21, 2006
- A hard look at L4 in Leopard – June 21, 2006
- A kernel of truth: the plot thickens – June 19, 2006
- A kernel of truth – June 18, 2006
- And we all shine on – May 16, 2006
- The garbage man cometh – May 6, 2006
- Selling the Mac – May 2, 2006
- ZFS on Mac OS X – April 27, 2006
- Declaration of resolution-independence – April 23, 2006
- Wanted: analog dragon slayer – April 20, 2006
- Boot Camp – April 8, 2006
- Waiting for the handheld revolution – March 13, 2006
- Poor pickers proliferate – March 12, 2006
- Apple versus the analog monster – March 4, 2006
- Paths in the grass – February 19, 2006
- Finding Leopard – January 27, 2006
- What a Guy – January 5, 2006
- Aperture ascendant – January 2, 2006
2005
- You have failed me for the last time, Aspyr – December 10, 2005
- ZFS data integrity explained – December 9, 2005
- Avoiding Copland 2010: Hints of things to come? – December 4, 2005
- Who’s minding the store? – November 21, 2005
- Strange game – November 13, 2005
- The case for RAID – November 5, 2005
- Night of the living xMac – October 30, 2005
- Empire – October 22, 2005
- Think cautious – October 16, 2005
- Pre-show paralysis – October 7, 2005
- Avoiding Copland 2010: Part 3 – October 3, 2005
- Avoiding Copland 2010: Part 2 – September 30, 2005
- Avoiding Copland 2010 – September 27, 2005
- Dear Mac game developers – September 23, 2005
- The Apple product cycle, variation 2 – September 21, 2005
- Inside the Revolution controller (maybe) – September 16, 2005
- You say you got a real solution – September 16, 2005
- The state of Mac web browsing – September 12, 2005
- Be careful what you wish for – September 12, 2005