As an alternative to the Writing Tools proofreading macro I showed in yesterday’s post, I built another one, called Proofread With Claude, which gets the edited text through a call to Anthropic’s Claude API. I make the call in Python using Simon Willison’s llm module and the llm-anthropic extension. Although I knew...

Yes, it’s been less than a week since I wrote about LLM proofreading and showed you the “final” version of the Keyboard Maestro macro I’d been using. And that wasn’t a lie because it is the final version of that macro. It’s just that I’m now using two new macros with a different approach. Today’s post will be about...

A couple of weeks ago, Scientific American published this puzzle. There are nine overlapping rectangles, A through I. They overlap one another in a specific pattern using a notation I hadn’t seen before: A\(D, F) F\(A, B, I) B\(F, G) G\(B, C, I) C\(G, H) H\(C, D, E) D\(A, H) I\(E, F, G) E\(H, I) This means that...

In my recent post on the Keyboard Maestro episode of Mac Power Users, I needed a screenshot of a Typinator window and had trouble getting what I wanted. I tried using my SnapClip macro, but I found that when the macro’s user input window appeared, the Typinator window went into the background (as expected) but...

I’ve written two posts on using LLMs to proofread my posts before publishing. In the first post, I had a fairly rudimentary prompt and spent most of my time discussing the feedback ChatGPT gave me. By the second post, I had refined the prompt and was using a simple Keyboard Maestro macro to prepare the post text...

[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] Yesterday morning, before Christmas got going, I read about the big Powerball win Wednesday night. I figured that was as good an excuse as any to practice my new lotto math...

Greg Pierce, top turtle wrangler at Agile Tortoise, posted this to Mastodon last week: Since updating to watchOS 26, about every third time I go to start a workout, I find later it didn’t start. The way the button animation swiping between workout types works creates an unnecessary delay activating the start button....

[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] I planned to talk about this post from Mathew Ingram, but things went in a different direction, and I learned something new. The story is about a couple who recently won their...

In the most recent episode of Mac Power Users, David and Stephen discuss Keyboard Maestro, a longtime favorite automation app and the main topic of at least three previous episodes of MPU. If you’re an ANIAT reader, it’s reasonably likely that you’re already using Keyboard Maestro, and you may think this is an...

[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] I’ve talked about area moments of inertia in the past couple of posts. Today, thanks to Phil Plait, resident astronomer at Scientific American, I have an excuse to talk about...

[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] At the end of yesterday’s post, I mentioned that axial deformations in framework members are typically two orders of magnitude less than the lateral (bending) deformations....

[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] I’ve been meaning to follow up on the “sense of structure” post I wrote just after Thanksgiving. I don’t have anything profound to say, but I did want to give complete...