June 5, 2026 I found it interesting to come across two posts in my RSS feed about aging and eye problems the other day. Robert Breen Eleven years ago, just after my fiftieth birthday, I started having trouble reading late in the day. This is common for people of a certain age, but the reason I was struggling wasn’t...

June 1, 2026 For my Drafts friends: FlohGro Every other year I get the urge to change the look of Drafts for me a bit. My Catppuccin themes, especially Catppuccin Mocha, were probably the most loved ones for me until now. But once again I wanted a few more options to add into my own mix. In the past I played around...

June 1, 2026 Today I simplified my blog post publishing workflow by building a Drafts action, with help from Claude, that writes posts directly to my 11ty posts folder. The idea was to eliminate the manual steps of saving a file to the desktop, opening it in a text editor, adding front matter, and dragging it to the...

May 31, 2026 CNBC Artificial intelligence is turning out to be far more expensive than anyone expected, and CFOs at major U.S. companies are now facing a brutal new trade-off: tokens or humans.

May 27, 2026 I was bored this morning, so with Claude I built a set of shell scripts to export Bear notes to various locations, triggered via Keyboard Maestro. All scripts query Bear's SQLite database directly at: ~/Library/Group Containers/9K33E3U3T4.net.shinyfrog.bear/Application Data/database.sqlite

May 26, 2026 I am aware that my time on Earth is finite. At 81 years old, I don't plan on going anywhere soon, but I recognize that I won't be here forever. Lately I’ve been thinking about making things easier for the people who will eventually have to pick up the pieces after I’m gone. Years ago I moved away from...

May 18, 2026 Marked 3 is officially out Marked 2 will continue to be available for those who don’t need everything Marked 3 offers. It will always be a one-time purchase, but won’t see a lot of updates, other than to keep it running as new OS versions come out. I’m a very light user of Marked and don’t really need...

May 15, 2026 Monday I noticed an itchy spot on my upper back. By Tuesday, there was a hard bump where I’d been scratching it. Wednesday it was still itchy, and because of the bump I had Lisa take a look at it. Turns out it was a tick bite. It also had a red circle around it a little bigger than a quarter. I knew...

May 14, 2026 The other day I wrote in my notes: I'm contemplating migrating my task manager to the free version of Todoist. I'm speculating that Things 4 may be released soon, and I'm hesitant to pay an upgrade fee for three devices or a subscription if they adopt that model. Additionally, Todoist currently offers...

May 12, 2026 I’ve been refining my file-over-app workflow lately. For things like blog posts, daily notes, journal entries, and notes, I prefer working in a markdown text editor. In my case that’s MarkEdit. At the same time, most of the ideas and thoughts that eventually become those things start in Drafts. Of...

May 11, 2026 I installed Hyperduck by Sindre Sorhus on my iPhone and Mac back in February 2023. I don’t think I’ve used it once since then. This morning an update for the iOS app reminded me it was even installed. I had honestly forgotten what it does. Hyperduck is a small utility that sends links from your iPhone...

I keep a monthly journal in Markdown; one file per month, each entry stamped with the date and time. For a while I was creating those files by hand. That got old fast. So I wrote a Python script to handle it and want to share it with you. Each time the script runs, it checks whether a journal file for the current...