I’ve been trying to think of a better experience for people who click on an RSS link or button. It currently seems like gate-keeping. If you know what RSS is, you’ll figure it out. Everyone else will be baffled. Chrome shows you code, Safari offers to open an app, Firefox downloads a file. Compare that with the...

You can get a badge for your blog declaring that you never, ever use AI. While it’s true that I never, ever use AI for my writing, I did use it once to make a graphic for an April Fools Day joke about how Apple is making the corners on its windows rounder than ever. Also, I use AI quite a bit to help me with coding...

Here’s how to make your post as hard to read as possible. Step 1: Make it all one paragraph, the longer the better. Step 2: Don’t put in any subheadings. If you’ve followed step 1, you won’t be able to do this anyway. Step 3: Resist the urge to reformat some sentences as bulleted lists. Keep those sentences nice and...

There’s a guy who occasionally publishes reviews on Reddit that are honest, informed and non-monetized. I trust him and have in fact bought one of the things he recommended. I use it often, and I’m glad to have it. Lately, though, I’ve noticed something different about his reviews. They seem to flow a little better,...

I’ve been interested in the concept of the indie web for a few years now, but have struggled to take part in a meaningful way. I wrote about an early attempt in 2024 when I discovered that you can get a random RSS feed from indieblog.page. To this day, I continue to get 10 random posts every day in my feed reader....

Apparently, Apple likes those big-ass round corners so much that they have decided to go all-in with what they’re calling “circular” design. Here’s an example I found for TextEdit.

In seemingly miraculous fashion, basic functions that I thought were lost to my Mac have returned. Spotlight is now able to find stock Apple apps, and Mail is now able to send emails. So what happened? I can only guess, but I do know what I was doing just before the miracle — fixing an error in Terminal, along with...

I’ve had my iMac for almost a decade now, and aside from slowing down a bit over the years, it’s worked just fine. Until now. It started with Spotlight no longer being able to find any apps or files. After a lot of back and for with Claude that resulted in more time in Terminal than I normally like, along with a...

I have been thinking about my characterization of OpenAI and Anthropic as being motivated by greed. This may be unfair, given that greed motivates all of us to some degree, and it is a necessary vice if you are to succeed in the corporate world. The economist Joseph A. Schumpeter observed in his 1942 book...

A lot of people have been deleting their ChatGPT accounts in favour Claude. It’s their way of choosing sides in the controversy surrounding contracts with the U.S. government. I was initially tempted to do the same thing until I concluded that Anthropic, the company that runs Claude, is motivated by greed every bit...

With ads now showing up in ChatGPT, there is a worry that the answers will turn into sales jobs for the advertisers. That’s too obvious, and is unlikely to happen — at least in the short term. What is more likely is that the AI will try to lead us down more rabbit holes, hoping to engage us by being more “helpful”...

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