Steven Sinofsky
@stevesi.xyz
Check out “Hardcore Software” my memoir of the PC era and my time at Microsoft. eBook, print, audio on Amazon or hardcoresoftware.substack.com
The x-ray glasses are fake. The dog poop is plastic. But the fake bullet hole stickers definitely look real.
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 5mo agoSelected treasures from Johnson Smith Company's 1976 catalog of 1600 novelties (from the back pages of The Savage Sword of Conan #13, Marvel Comics, July 1976) www.tumblr.com/oldschoolfrp...
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Steven Sinofsky@stevesi.xyz · 7mo ago237. CES 2026 – “The Future Is Here” and “Innovators Show Up” #CES2026 Excited to offer up my observations and learning from the show. I walked around A LOT and tried to see everything so you don't have to. hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/237-ces-20...
237. CES 2026 – “The Future Is Here” and “Innovators Show Up” #CES2026 Excited to offer up my observations and learning from the show. I walked around A LOT and tried to see everything so you don't have to. hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/237-ces-20...
237. CES 2026 – “The Future Is Here” and “Innovators Show Up” #CES2026
This was a great show and if you spent enough time on the floor (I did so you don't have to), you could see it really did live up to both marketing taglines 📈💡🔮❤️
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A look at the new, open-source Model Context Protocol for connecting LLMs to data sources and why its success depends on overcoming middleware challenges (Steven Sinofsky/Hardcore Software) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Apple’s Dictation System Transcribes the Word ‘Racist’ as ‘Trump’ Summarize The company said it was working to fix the problem after iPhone users began reporting the issue. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/t...
DeepSeek Has Been Inevitable and Here's Why (History Tells Us) hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/228-deepse...
228. DeepSeek Has Been Inevitable and Here's Why (History Tells Us)
DeepSeek was certain to happen. The only unknown was who was going to do it. The choices were a startup or someone outside the current center of US AI leadership and innovation.
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227. CES 2025: An Abundance of (AI) Experimentation hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/227-ces-20...
227. CES 2025: An Abundance of (AI) Experimentation
CES proved a transition year with many established product lines showing incremental improvements or focusing on B2B areas and new product lines showing a rush to demonstrate their relevancy to AI.
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A lot of people at the Nvidia CES keynote. Largest public keynote I’ve experienced (2x my recollection of Xbox/NT/tablet at old Aladdin) Blackwell has 4000 TOPS
Apple Explores a Face ID Doorbell and Lock Device in Smart Home Push by @markgurman // Apple entering home security is very exciting (to me). It is an area that requires strong integration across components, not just a doorbell cam. 1/3 www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Apple Explores a Face ID Doorbell and Lock Device in Smart Home Push
Also: Company ramps up work on turning AirPods into a health device.
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On the Toll of Being a Disruptor. It is very easy to be disruptive, but being a disruptor is enormously difficult technically and emotionally hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/223-on-the...
223. On the Toll of Being a Disruptor
It is very easy to be disruptive, but being a disruptor is enormously difficult technically and emotionally
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Benedict Evans puts together a yearly slide deck looking broadly at the industry while diving in with specific numbers and a lot of charts (90 slides). It is always a gem. via @benedictevans This year is about AI (of course). It is super. ben-evans.com/presentations
DOJ Will Push Google to Sell Off Chrome to Break Search Monopoly bloomberg.com/news/article... // True insanityt. There's so little distribution advantage to web browsing. If there were then Edge would have succeeded. This is not about consumers or benefits but about penalties and politics.
I'm halfway through Hardcore Software by @stevesi.bsky.social. It's a lengthy one, but I'm really enjoying it and would not mind if it was twice as long. #books
A recent thread on how productivity evolves with GPT, especially given Adobe new this week. Features are additive&make more creators. Domain experts remain&go on to do more advanced work. Ppl up-leveled, not fired. https://medium.learningbyshipping.com/ai-chatgpt-and-bing-oh-my-79c47e62c666
AI, ChatGPT, and Bing…Oh My
And Sydney too. Consolidating some thoughts on an exciting two weeks of surprises, advances, and retreats in AI.
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206. On Congressional Hearings On Artificial Intelligence (May 2023) https://open.substack.com/pub/hardcoresoftware/p/206-congressional-hearings-on-ai?r=3y2k4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
206. On Congressional Hearings On Artificial Intelligence (May 2023)
Follow the science…fiction?
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Bard adding dark mode is one thing. Announcing it as a top line feature is something different entirely.
I just put a new screen protector on my phone with a result of no bubbles and no dust. AMA. Gonna rest now.
A 3d graph of “internet” traffic in the US in sept 1991. Each white line is 100GB or about 20 of todays streaming households represented. There were a total of 500,000 computers on the entire internet. via book “InfoCulture”.
Some excerpts from a June 1997 Wired magazine article with punditry/predictions for “saving” Apple that was in dire shape. https://substack.com/profile/6628468-steven-sinofsky/note/c-15623305
New social platform so need to get this out there to set the tone correctly. ST:TOS >> ST:TNG
