This website (cobb.land, if you don't know where you are) continues to be mostly a chronicle of my media consumption. And even that has been sparse. But I do want this site to...

To quote myself quoting myself: As someone who still loves and occasionally plays the episode one podracer game, this ain't it. It's pretty fun, but it's a fundamentally...

I've made a terrible mistake. I've been scrolling and posting on Reddit. I know, I know. But I was bored one day. And I've learned my lesson. No more Reddit. In order to not...

For simplicity's sake, I use the term "AI" to refer to LLMs and other related technologies throughout this post. None of these things are actually AI. Also, I ascribe...

Beautifully written, expertly crafted, powerful narrative. I hated it. I recommend it.

I wanted to enjoy Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, and I even did sometimes. But, mostly, it was just too early 2010s. Let me explain. Do you remember when tech was cool, when...

This is my first weeknote post, and I'm already cheating a little bit by including some things from the week before. Whatever—it's my blog, so I make the rules. Also, as this...

I don't have much context for NES games. I started with the SNES. Maybe all of those old games are insanely difficult. Even many SNES games were pretty hard. But Malasombra...

I keep trying to play modern games and failing. Occasionally, I'll make it through one and enjoy it. But the game has to have something extra special for me to succeed....

I really used to think the Game Boy peaked at Pokemon. As a kid, I even owned The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, but I had no idea how wrong I was, because I never even...