All of my notes
I use Obsidian for pretty much all text, but I find it a little to slow sometimes for when I just need to jot some things down on a digital scrap piece of paper. I normally use Drafts for this, but Gravity is a really nice app that I'm taking for a spin.
Fan out prompts to multiple AI coding agents in parallel. counselors dispatches the same prompt to Claude, Codex, Gemini, Amp, or custom tools simultaneously, collects their responses, and writes everything to a structured output directory. No MCP servers, no direct API integrations, no complex configuration. It just calls your locally installed CLI tools. Just heard about this on the latest…
I’m still enjoying the switch to NetNewsWire for my RSS feeds, but this new app - intentionally designed to not look like every other RSS reader experience out there - is very interesting.
I've been watching this project for some time and been looking for an excuse to use this HTML-first UI library, so have decided to use it as a jumping-off point for the redesign of this website. No use of the web components at the moment, but can definitely see myself using <kelp-toc> at some point.
I've been a loyal user of Reeder (more specifically Reeder Classic as it has now become) for many years, but today I decided to give NetNewsWire a go. The 'Today' smart feed is exactly what I've been looking for - before today I was considering resurrecting Subworthy to add a more ethemeral / temporal aspect to my feeds (I may still).
But the reality is that 75% of the people on our engineering team lost their jobs here yesterday because of the brutal impact AI has had on our business. Could this be the beginning of the end for the CSS framework? Maybe it's time for Laravel Holdings Inc. to buy / bail them out? UPDATE: Looks like Vercel and Google AI already swooped in to save the day, as it were. No word of the Tailwind…
...in the name of evolution, there seems to be mistaken thinking that the process of building a website needs to get more complex, using Javascript frameworks and modern backend systems; when at the end of the day, browsers still only need static HTML content to interpret. There’s so much in this piece that echoes my current thinking about building for the web - things have gotten way more complex…
At work I will often need to decode a JSON or Base64-encoded string to more-easily examine the data. Using online tools like jsonformatter.org and base64decode.org are certainly convenient, but not exactly great for security. Boop is a fantastic native desktop tool for doing all of that (and much more). I find myself launching it multiple times a day.
John Gruber: It’s like a consortium of sketchy pawn shops complaining to the authorities after a popular retailer successfully cracked down on an organized shoplifting/pickpocketing ring, and the authorities then fining the retailer for the damage to the pawnbrokers’ business fencing stolen goods — and for exposing the police as ineffective. This decision by French authorities melts my brain, and…
Same here.
Joan Westenberg: Faced with the relentless, myopic, growth-at-all-costs optimism that seems to surround our tech overlords and their toys, all I can think is that I'd rather give up 99% of the consumer-tech "improvements" to go back to a world where things felt a little bit harder, and a lot more human. This perfectly encapsulates a feeling of uneasiness that has been growing in the back of my…
Will Tavlin for n+1 : In 2021 Netflix announced that it would start releasing a new original movie every week. A certain style soon began to take shape, a mind-numbing anticinema that anyone who has subscribed to Netflix in recent years knows by sight. I’ll call it the Typical Netflix Movie (TNM). I’m not a huge Netflix viewer - I mainly use it to watch ‘mainstream’ movies that make it onto the…
Arun Venkatesan : Meishi embodies Rams’s principle of “less but better” by enforcing limits. Each card represents a commitment to do fewer things, but do them well. Most satisfying of all is that by solving this particular problem, I’ve found that small solutions can lead to big impact. Aside from the fact that this requires the carrying of a pen / pencil, I do like the idea of this minimal…
James Clear: Writing is the superpower of humankind. It is our truest form of magic. Writing allows you to conjure up something of value where nothing previously existed. It costs little for you to write down the lessons of your life and yet those few minutes spent writing can be life-altering for the right reader. As I once saw it put: “there is someone out there with a wound in the exact shape…
Prior to the Gregorian calendar, farmers in China and Japan broke each year down into 24 sekki or “small seasons”. These seasons didn't use dates to mark seasons, but instead, they divided up the year by natural phenomena As someone who has moved from the northern hemisphere to the southern hemisphere and had their seasons shifted against the calendar year (and those seasons are so much more…
I’m always on the lookout for new productivity / time-management systems - researching different philosophies and techniques has become something of an unofficial hobby of mine (just check out some of the titles in the non-fiction section of my reading list). There are three main requirements which have to be kept in balance. These are urgency, importance and psychological readiness. Traditional…
I always look forward to a new episode of The Talk Show from John Gruber, and this one with Kagi CEO Vladimir Prelovac was no exception. One of the most enjoyable episodes of recent times, this was an enlightening listen that highlights aspects of search that I had never considered (but which support my general view). It takes some deep dives down some interesting technical rabbit holes. Prelovac…
For the past three months I have been using Obsidian exclusively for note-taking and it has been a game changer for me. I don’t use ‘Read It Later’ apps as most of the content I consume comes from RSS feeds. However I’ve found ‘Read It Later’ behaviour to be the perfect use-case for Obsidian Web Clipper , a powerful first-party extension for Safari - more so than Safari’s own ‘Reading List’…
One of the reasons behind me resurrecting this website is that I wanted to start documenting more about myself. This is more than just writing blog posts (a habit that I am starting to build). This is my personal space on the web and I want to use it as an opportunity to be introspective and represent myself more fully. But there can be so many facets to a person, where do you even start? What…
The official VS Code extension for Laravel has been released in open beta. When writing PHP I work in the Laravel framework almost exclusively. As a VS Code user (as opposed to PhpStorm) I don't have the luxury of being able to use the Laravel Idea plugin , which is pretty-much the gold-standard in creating a Laravel-specific development environment. Instead I rely on a handful of extensions to…