Proof of Life
I realize I haven t posted in about 6 weeks. Summer has been pretty busy, but I assure you, like Mitch McConnell, I am alive and well. We ll get back to normally scheduled programming soon.
Daniel Andrews
Assorted Nerdery
Latest posts
Gen AI Could Fix Performance Reviews—or Make Them Even Worse
Earlier this year, we built a rudimentary fact-gathering bot for managers. Its job was simple: pull together evidence of our team operating at their given skill level, without making any judgments, just finding concrete examples of when someone did a certain thing and linking to that data. For each area of the skills map we [ ]
macOS Golden Gate Icon Comparison
Thank goodness I felt like I was going blind looking at Tahoe icons on the Mac. The glassy, blurry nature of the style seems to be on the way out.
A tale of two browsers
It s nice to see the Snow Leopard year has extended beyond just the OS platforms and over to WebKit as well. Jeremy Keith gives a brief rundown of some of the features he s most excited about and catalogs a number of the 500+ bugfixes coming our way as well.
The Dragnet Just Swept Up Your AirPods (and Your Dog?)
We already know about the pervasive spread of Flock Safety and other Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) cameras. But Motorola s Vigilant Solutions is actively pitching a handy upgrade for any budding authoritarians: adding Bluetooth and RFID sensors to these street cameras. This means they aren t just logging your car anymore. They want to sniff out [ ]
WWDC 2026 Wish Lists
I always enjoy Michael Tsai’s roundups of WWDC wishlists as well as the reaction posts afterwards as well. I’ve found a handful of new voices to follow as a result.
Own Your Weekly Planning
There’s a version of the engineering manager who shows up to every 1:1 slightly out of (figurative) breath. You open the calendar invite, scan the last few notes you half-wrote three weeks ago, and spend the first five minutes of the conversation just trying to remember where you left off. Meanwhile your report is sitting [ ]
Last.fm is now independent
I m a big fan of Last.fm, and less of a fan of their slimy parent company that bought them 15 or so years ago. Glad to see they are breaking free, and hopeful they can stay up and running. The thing I struggle with a bit is that the $4.99/month plan is a bit more [ ]
BBEdit 16 is here!
Headlines are shortcuts support, search improvements, more AI integration, better git support, and tons of quality of life improvements. I tend to bounce between BBEdit and VS Code these days, but I ll always have a soft spot for BBEdit as it s been a mainstay since I started using Macs many eons ago. Full release notes [ ]
Kobo & StoryGraph sync coming in June
This is great to see little things like this start to chip away at the default choice people have let themselves get sucked into with the Kindle and it s ecosystem. I have a Kindle paperwhite from a few years back so I m not going to rush out to replace it but I ve mostly stopped [ ]