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I started at Anthropic a couple of weeks ago. I left PlanetScale last May after nearly 3 years with no plans for “the next thing.” It was by far the longest I’ve taken between anything, and I spent the time largely outside. I started running again and kept it going for over 6 months before the rotating collection of aches and pains stopped me. But it nudged me into cycling, first…
I have not dabbled with any of the OpenClaw ecosystem (yet) but I’ve used Claude enough on non-coding local tasks that I wanted to give Claude Cowork a try. Cowork is a native app that lets Claude do more file and local machine manipulation. Specifically, combined with the Chrome extension that lets Claude access and drive a browser session. Recently, I’ve started adding a few more…
During the most recent upgrade, my MacBook seemed to freeze on the update so I restarted. Big mistake. After it came back up, I got the scary exclamation mark and text that linked to an Apple support page. The page gave me two options: ‘revive’ my Mac, or restore it. Reviving it meant connecting a USB-C cord between the dead laptop and a working one and then hitting a magic combination…
In the Bay Area, when a heat wave hits, it hits hard. Most people do not have air conditioning since it’s not often needed. The summers are typically cool and our heat spikes are random days (though more frequently and more intense than even a few years ago). Keeping the house cool during these events is a challenge but there are some tips to help. Tip 1: Capture the cool nighttime air This…
This is going to be a niche post with some keyword stuffing to help out the next person. If you happen to have a bricked Favero Assioma MX power pedal, that won’t turn on, these are the instructions from their customer support that worked for me. I had opened up the pedals and installed the app and detected the pedals with no problem. Brand new pedals unsurprisingly had a firmware upgrade so…
I’ve gotten the biking bug. Last summer, I picked up a nice gravel bike and didn’t actually ride it that much. But after tweaking my knee running and getting tired of cycling on the indoor bike, I took a few more adventurous (for me) rides out and over the past 2-3 weeks have gone out nearly every day. I’m loving it. I’m seeing parts of the city I normally don’t see.…
When you spent years and years working at a place like Slack, especially getting a front-row seat to watching it grow from small to very big, it is nice to hear other people’s stories of that time. Two newsletters I’ve really enjoyed reading: Building Slack : This one is written by Ali Rayl and Johnny Rodgers and covers the time from pre-launch up through (as of mid-March 2026) COVID…
I’ve been using Things as my to-do app and GTD (aka the Getting Things Done productivity system) for over 10 years. It’s helped me stay organized through multiple years of startups, house moves, vacations, two kids, complicated financial situations, and other life complexities, and I wanted to write about how I use them together. Inbox First, the Inbox. The purpose of the Inbox is…
Running is a sport that you get while the getting is good, and it has not been good for me most of this year. Holidays, bad weather, and, for the past few weeks, an achy left knee means I’ve been running way less. I’ve been riding our indoor bike a lot as a replacement, but it’s just not the same, especially when it comes to calorie burn. I track my weight & calorie intake using…
I’ve started using Claude to do something that I really shouldn’t have to: making calendar files. Every organization that can offer a simple calendar URL that I can subscribe to wants to make it fancy (read: harder). The Giants baseball schedule requires you give them an email address, no doubt so I can be put on some marketing list. The youngest kid’s soccer league has a bug…