Pete Ashton's Notes & Links

This is my notebook. Stuff I’m doing, stuff I’m thinking about, stuff I’ve seen online and feel is worth sharing.

The tragedy of FireWire, an elegy for a 2000-era cable that was sort of like BetaMax to USB’s VHS.

I have weirdly fond memories of FireWire. It was fast, sure, but it also felt good when you plugged it in. Like proper future-of-computing shit. But USB was good enough and that always wins.