This week
- The World Wide Web is one of the greatest inventions of humanity. This medium gave me the opportunity to do what I do, made me passionate about it, taught me so many things and gave me so many laughs. In many contexts this saying sounds cliché, but without the internet this...
- Little disclaimer. What’s “more intuitive” for me may not be “more intuitive” for you. Also, the title says “Vim” but everything here is applicable in Neovim. With that out of the way, let’s learn something cool! Vim allows us to increment a number via CTRL-A and decrement it...
Last week
- My terminal background color changes based on the current directory. It's a small touch that makes it easy to tell which project I'm in at a glance, which is especially useful when juggling AI agents. It works via a custom fish function called _color_for_dir, which: Hashes the...
- Two years ago I published “Apple, please fix the Safari Reading List” which suggests some improvements and highlights one critical bug that Apple should fix to make Safari Reading List usable. Having a robust system to keep things for later is crucial for my workflow....
- I’ve been reading (slowly) David Pogue’s Apple: The First 50 Years, and really enjoying it. I’ve previously read quite a few books about Apple’s history, but Pogue has put together something really special with this one. This morning I came across this sidebar about the...
- Growing up, I hated Apple the way only an arrogant teenager could. Who in their right mind would buy an overpriced toy instead of a “real computer”? Here’s how I switched to the Mac, and haven’t looked back… despite some recent reservations. My family’s first real computer was a...
- I wrote yesterday about some visual changes I’d noticed in Apple’s 26.4 series of OSs. Today I noticed that I’d missed a couple of real doozies, both related to the new mega-corners in macOS Tahoe. First up, Apple fixed the corner resizing area! It’s not surprising that this is...
About a month ago
- How far can you go with IX Route Servers only? On paper internet exchanges (IX) are very simple in their implementation, simply put together a bunch of routers on a shared layer 2 ethernet switch...
about 1 month ago
- Tech firm fined $1.1m by California for selling high-school students’ data I agree with Brian Marick’s response No such story should be published without a comparison of the fine to the company’s previous year revenue and profits, or valuation of last funding round. (I could...
- If you’ve known me for long enough, there will be a point where I’m going to pitch you the concept of Obsidian. I adore that program1, I basically live my life in it. Everything is connected, and ideas just bubble up on their own. That love for Obsidian is always amplified when...
- I published my list of defaults last time in 2023, but a few things have changed since then. Inspired by Bud Spencer’s comment, here it is, my list of defaults as of 2026. Not a drastic change, but to make it a little easier to parse, I annotated the new things. If you are...
about 2 months ago
- Some RSS feeds are fantastic but far too noisy to add to most RSS readers directly. Without serious filtering, you'd get swamped with more posts than you could possibly read, while missing the hidden gems. I built Scour specifically because I wanted to find the great articles I...
2 months ago
- Six years ago, while I should have been studying for finals, I patched and compiled X11 (and all its dependencies) to run on a jailbroken iPad. I wanted to run real applications on my tablet. I've spent the last few months weeks days hours building vibecoding something that...
- Date and time management libraries in many programming languages are famously bad. Python's datetime module comes to mind as one of the best (worst?) examples, and so does JavaScript's Date class. It feels like these libraries could not have been made worse on purpose, or so I...
- A month ago I published “Look Back at 2025” where I mentioned that the past year has been super stable and how grateful I was for it. This state didn’t last much longer. I lost my job, one of my best friends was diagnosed with a cancer and another good buddy of mine had a heart...
- I’ve reviewed the Bose Ultra Open and Huawei Free Clip earbuds before, and subsequently tried the SoundPEATS PearlClip Pro as a cheaper alternative. But the much cheaper PearlClips just didn’t do it for me. However, when SoundPEATS asked if I wanted to try a pair of Clip1...
3 months ago
- Blog About Moonbound Shop This is a post from Robin Sloan’s lab blog & notebook. You can visit the blog’s homepage, or learn more about me. January 28, 2026 Marcin Wichary has a new blog! He of Shift Happens; he of sweating the details; he of so many gorgeous, generous...
- Herman's blog Home Now Projects Blog 20 Jan, 2026 If it ain't broke, don't fix it. While I don't fully subscribe to the above quote, since I think it's important to continually improve things that aren't explicitly broken, every now and then something I use works so well that I...
- Remember files? .doc.doc.doc.doc.jpg.jpg.svg You write a document, hit save, and the file is on your computer. It’s yours. You can inspect it, you can send it to a friend, and you can open it with other apps. Files come from the paradigm of personal computing. This post,...
- I’ve been slowly reading my copy of “The Internet Phone Book” and I recently read an essay in it by Elan Ullendorff called “The New Turing Test”. Elan argues that what matters in a work isn’t the tools used to make it, but the “expressiveness” of the work itself (was it made...
- Chapterizer (not a great name, I know) is a tool I wrote to generate books. Originally used Cairo and Pango to generate PDF files. It works and was fairly easy to get started but has its own set of downsides: Cairo always produces RGB PDFs, which are not accepted by printing...
- Just heard the news from the WULFF Den Podcast that Epilogue has released pre-orders for the next ROM backup tool in their “Operator” series for the Super NES (SNES) and Super Famicom called the “SN Operator”. The SN Operator pre-order costs $60 USD plus shipping. This is great...
- Nothing is ever as good as it first seems and nothing is ever as bad as it first seems. — A best memory paraphrase of advice given to me by Vice Admiral Joe Dyer, former chief test pilot of the US Navy and former Commander of NAVAIR. [You can follow me on social media:...
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