Current setup
Chickened out on getting the ZSA Navigator; instead, just have a (relatively cheaper) Kensington trackball — not the Slimblade but it’s “junior version”, the Orbit.…
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The Augmentation Revolution Hiding in Plain Sight
Everyone's debating whether AI will replace workers. They're missing the revolution: it's already augmenting millions of us. Edward Zitron’s "The Case Against Generative AI" ma…
Renting Intelligence by the Hour
[saw how new features over the last year are all either "Pro-first" or even "Pro-early", have had lingering thoughts about this since ...] Think of the gap between two people tack…
Janus v2.0
* I've released Janus v2.0, a native macOS AI chat application with dual provider support. You can download it here. Why Build This * The original Janus prototype solved a specific problem: I…
Finding the Human Signal: iA Writer’s Authorship Guides
The most valuable writing tool I’ve discovered recently isn’t another AI assistant—it’s iA Writer’s “human versus AI” authorship guides. The feature is quite simple: As you write, iA Writer visibly m…
Quick Youtube summaries
As someone who watches a LOT of Youtube, I need to either get an idea of what a video's about, or sometimes save some details about it in a personal archive. Though I don't have a Gemini Pro…
ClaudeCode & Obsidian: Teaser
I can write a fuller post on this later, but here's a sneak peek at how things can be, when you let ClaudeCode be "a local delegate" to your Vault. Here's it processing my Inbox for…
What It Means When AI Lives Inside Your PKM
Sharing repository file context
While tools like Cursor should be able to satisfy everything you might want to do in a repository, to build, to enhance, to fix, to investigate, whatever -- you might want a second opinion. Gemini is…
Getting Ghostty to work with Tmux-in-SSH
Context I've been using Ghostty locally for fun + profit. By default, I found that my workflow of SSH-in somewhere and run a TMUX session there was broken. The error I got was: missing or unsu…
Getting past a ghost Apple ID
(In case anyone else has run into this problem, let me just describe how I fixed it) I wanted to reset my macbook before giving it away (have done something similar before, for ipad/iphone etc over t…
Replit as personal computing.
The dream of “deployable” personal development I’ve been experimenting a lot with Replit, and found their “Core” subscription quite valuable. My former understanding of it (from a few years ago) as a…