Two years late, Waymo, Google's lavishly-funded autonomous car company, is finally rolling out a driverless taxi service that is open to the general public. For the past few years, certain passengers enrolled in a Waymo program have been riding around in these vehicles, most of the time with safety drivers behind the wheel, as...
Here it is. I've resurrected the few posts from my old blog worth salvaging and posted them below. I've gone a completely different direction with the setup for this blog: no database and server-side rendering via eleventy. I'm excited to see where this goes. Stay tuned for some posts with more substance in the future.
Note: The post originally appeared on jonknowles.win
Every few years I buy a copy of the current EA Sports NHL or FIFA game for Xbox, and this year, I got both games for Christmas (thanks mom). Although I haven’t had much time to play FIFA 17 yet, I know what to expect: it’s usually incrementally deeper and nicer in subtle but noticeable ways. Not so with EA...
Note: The post originally appeared on jonknowles.win
I read the news compulsively and pretty much constantly, but since political developments in the US (and the West more generally) have become so depressing lately, I’ve had trouble stomaching it. So I switched some of my reading to technology-focused outlets, rather than my standard political and economic fare. It’s just less emotionally draining to read about processor architecture...
Note: The post originally appeared on jonknowles.win
Trust me, I've heard of WordPress. I think it's pretty great, actually. It's free and open-source, it takes about ten minutes to set up, and it's able to do dozens of cool tricks that this blog could only dream of. So why would I make a blog that sucks so much?
There's two reasons...