Kevin Bae

Non-Social in a Socially Networked World

Category: Technology

  • Google Just Gave Me a Personal Buy One, Get One Free Deal on the Pixel 11 and Pixel 11 Pro

    Google Just Gave Me a Personal Buy One, Get One Free Deal on the Pixel 11 and Pixel 11 Pro

    I keep two phones, particularly when I travel abroad. I don’t want my main phone to break and then find myself scrambling to buy a new one in a foreign country. So I travel with two. For the last couple of years, my main phone has been a Pixel 9 Pro and my backup has…

  • I’m building podcast tools like mad!

    I’m building podcast tools like mad!

    First a Podcast RSS Feed Creator/Editor, then a podcast player app, so why not complete the podcast toolset loop and create a transcriber and a chapter creator! Done! You know you were asking for it. Well, at least I was. And, now with how good AI has gotten with turning my ramblings into working products…

  • Say hello to my podcast player app

    Say hello to my podcast player app

    I’m building crap software left and right now! Feeling flush with success from building my own personal RSS feed builder I was compelled to build my own podcast app. Well… when I say build I mean Claude.ai built it while I told it what I want. It only took me a couple of weeks. I…

  • I built a podcast RSS feed builder using AI tools

    I built a podcast RSS feed builder using AI tools

    I’ve been trying to build my own podcast RSS feed creator using AI. I understand programming concepts, but I am terrible at writing and debugging code. I don’t have the patience for it. When people started using AI tools to build software, I figured I would finally be able to cobble something together. Over the…

  • Super Abundance doesn’t account for a super abundance of human nature

    Super Abundance doesn’t account for a super abundance of human nature

    There is a growing belief that artificial intelligence and robotics will soon usher in a post-scarcity world where money becomes meaningless, work disappears, and everything from food to housing is free. Elon Musk and others have suggested that advanced AI paired with humanoid robots like Optimus will make labor obsolete and create “universal high income.”…

  • The Apple Store: How do I hate thee? Let me count the ways.

    The Apple Store: How do I hate thee? Let me count the ways.

    The Apple Store has the worst shopping experience in the world. No store enrages me like this stupid concept of a store. All I wanted to do today was process a post-purchase trade-in. I wanted to do this in person because 2 years ago I processed a trade-in by shipping it back via FedEx. That…