October 14, 2026 It always tugs at my heartstrings when I see an injured animal. This morning, we discovered an injured yearling deer in the yard with both front legs broken. When I went over to check her out, she just calmly stared at me, which surprised me. Usually, when an injured animal sees a human, it will...

October 11, 2026 After using macOS 27's window tiling to put two windows side by side, Drafts stopped remembering its window size and position. Every time I opened it, the window appeared in the left half of the screen. Turning off window tiling in System Settings didn't help. With some help from ChatGPT, I tracked...

October 4, 2026 I've posted about AI five times in a row now. I know opinions on the subject vary a lot, so I wanted to explain why. I use AI every day. Lately I've been thinking about how much access I want give it, and what could go wrong if things don't work the way I expect. Writing is how I work through that,...

October 4, 2026 Sarah Perez, TechCrunch Days after a journalist claimed that Meta’s Muse app on Mac read their private messages — a claim that Meta disputed — Apple announced that it’s introducing additional controls around a setting called “Full Disk Access” on macOS. […] AI agents that run on the desktop allow...

October 2, 2026 I've been following the recent AI agent incidents, and I can't stop thinking about them. The trend is toward more access. Claude and ChatGPT are both building computer control into their desktop apps, so the AI can work with files, the browser, and the rest of the machine. The web versions don't have...

September 29, 2026 In emails, the employees said they worried that OpenAI’s newest artificial intelligence models were not being appropriately monitored during testing to gauge the technology’s sophistication and to secure the models, according to messages viewed by The New York Times. In response, OpenAI executives...

September 26, 2026 As reports of OpenAI’s models breaking containment, hacking sites, and generally getting out of control pile up, the company has made the decision to pause training of its most powerful models. The Verge

September 26, 2026 I've been reading about the OpenAI agent incidents this week, and I can't stop thinking about them. Their AI agents went poking around government websites they had no business being on, the Census Bureau, the SEC, and even the Department of Education. In one instance, an agent found some login...

September 21, 2026 I've been experimenting with Spotlight's Siri AI integration since updating to macOS 27. I wanted to launch a Keyboard Maestro macro from Spotlight, but selecting the macro opened it in the editor instead. So I asked Siri AI how I might do that and it suggested exporting the macro as a trigger...

September 21, 2026 Ray Camden linked to RSS Lookup in his Links For You (9/20/26) post, and I thought I’d share it too. I often find a site I want to follow, only to discover that its RSS feed is hard to find. With RSS Lookup, you paste in the site’s URL and it searches for available feeds. There’s also a...

September 15, 2026 Lately, I've fucking around with different ways to organize my writing. I've bounced between editors, moved folders around, written scripts and automations, and tried to come up with the perfect file-based setup. Every time I thought I had it figured out, I found myself changing something again....

September 13, 2026 I have times when I'm just not motivated to do much. This morning is one of those times. It's raining out, which makes me want to lie down and take a nap, even though it's still morning. I'm in my office at my computer, looking out the window to our backyard. Mouse the cat is out there getting a...