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2022-03-132025-09-17

packetcat reads 2022 Week 10 – The Peripheral by William Gibson

Pages: 467
Purchased from: Kobo

Folks, I really didn’t enjoy this one. Right off the bat, the book just drops you into a world without introducing the basics of how it works. Characters just come in with no explanation for their back story which makes this seem like the second book in the series which it isn’t, its the first.

The chapters are very short and the book keeps switching perspectives which makes the book feel very fast but also at the same time not much happens in each chapter so the book felt interminably long.

I will not be reading the sequel to this which for this series of posts, is first. Hell, I don’t think I’ll be be reading a William Gibson book again anytime in the near future.

2022-03-132022-03-12

What I’ve Read This Week (March 7 2022 to March 13 2022)

‘Delivery apps’ obsession with star ratings is ruining lives’ by Max Kim for Rest of World
‘Fraud Is Flourishing on Zelle. The Banks Say It’s Not Their Problem.’ by Stacy Cowley and Lananh Nguyen for The New York Times
‘Have We Been Thinking About Burnout All Wrong?’ by Eve Ettinger for Bustle
‘Steam Deck: The comprehensive Ars Technica review’ by Sam Machkovech for Ars Technica
‘On the Origin of the iPhone’ by John Gruber

2022-03-062025-09-17

packetcat reads 2022 Week 9 – Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Pages: 337
Purchased from: Kobo

I found this book tedious to read. While I appreciate the technical merits of the particular style the author is using and the way the buildup to the finale hits you, the journey to get there was quite unenjoyable. I found myself wanting the author to get to the damn point already.

I have another book by Kazuo Ishiguro in my wishlist at the moment, after reading this one I don’t think I want to read that one anytime soon.

2022-03-062022-03-05

What I’ve Read This Week (February 28 2022 to March 6 2022)

‘It’s Your Friends Who Break Your Heart’ by Jennifer Senior for The Atlantic
‘Miscellanea: Understanding the War in Ukraine’ by Bret Devereaux
‘David Boggs, Co-Inventor of Ethernet, Dies at 71’ by Cade Metz for The New York Times
‘Here’s what actually happens to all your online shopping returns’ by Meaghan Tobin, Wency Chen and Abubakar Idris for Rest of World
‘One Bit to the Left – An IPv6 Success Story’ by Ewan Mackie for RIPE Labs
‘Venus and Serena Williams on Their Own Terms’ by Tressie McMillan Cottom for Harper’s Bazaar
‘The rise of prestige Chinese games’ by Khee Hoon Chan for Polygon
‘Babylon’s Fall review: a live disservice’ by Ed Thorn for Rock Paper Shotgun

2022-03-05

Introducing Synthicator

For those of you who follow me on Mastodon or Twitter, you’ve likely seen this already but if you are one of those people who prefer RSS, this version of the announcement is for you.

I am super excited to announce the launch of my newsletter Synthicator. Synthicator is a newsletter about all things music and my feelings about music.

For the first time since I started writing things online publicly, I am launching a project where I directly ask people for money to motivate me to continue doing it. I was super nervous about this and I had a lot of self doubt in the preceding months where I was thinking about it.

But as the overused Wayne Gretzy quote says, you miss all the shots you don’t take so I am taking my shot at a paid newsletter, something I’ve never done before.

You can read the first post in the newsletter here. If you do become a paid subscriber, I am truly grateful.