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Notes for June 7-14

Shoehorning Flying Toasters into a ESP32-S3

The MilkV Jupiter 2/SpacemiT K3

WWDC26: Early Impressions

Notes for June 1–7

My WWDC 26 Wish List

Field Notes From The AI Battlefield

Microsoft Unveils Scout, an AI Agent Built on OpenClaw

Nvidia Gets Into the ARM PC Business

Chuwi MiniBook X

Notes for May 24–31

Mildly Parboiled

Indoor Wi-Fi Roaming with OpenWRT

Notes for May 17-24

Logitech Combo Touch: Four Years Later

TIL: Noctalia Shell Lock on Suspend

Apple Papercuts

Notes for May 10-17

Announcing ios-linuxkit: Linux on iPad, the Hard Way

Unexpected Synology Woes

The Siri For Families Apple Will Never Build

I Think I Figured Out What an AI IDE Looks Like

Notes for May 3-10

The Local AI Moat

Cloudflare Cuts 20% of Workforce for the 'Agentic AI Era'

Notes on GPT 5.x Model Regressions

Notes for April 27 – May 3

Lessons on Building MCP Servers

App Notes: Web App Viewer

TurboQuant: A First-Principles Walkthrough

Remodex: A Remote for Codex on iOS

Notes for April 20-26

MLX / Apple Silicon AI

Embeddings & Vector Search

John Ternus to Become Apple CEO

Notes for April 13-19

European AI: A Playbook to Own It

Notes for April 6-12

The Orange Pi 6 Plus

Porting Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii

Notes for March 30 – April 5

Notes for March 23–29

Make MacOS 26 Consistently Bad (Unironically)

Notes for March 16–22

Notes for March 9–15

MacBook Neo Impressions

So You Want To Do Agentic Development

Notes for March 2–8

The M2x2 Mac Mini Enclosure

Notes for February 23–March 1

Apple in 2025 Report Card Round-up

Pi.dev Ecosystem

Notes for February 16-21

OpenClaw Ecosystem

macOS Tahoe 26.3 is Broken

TIL: Claude Opus 4.6 Can Reverse Engineer STL Files

Notes for Feb 8-15

The Haves and The Have Nots

Hacking the Maclock

Nvidia's 10-year effort to update the Shield TV

Notes for February 2-7

Accelerando, But Janky

Xcode 26.3 adds Claude/Codex and MCP

Notes for January 26 - February 1

Thoughts on AI-Assisted Software Development in 2026

Vibing with the Agent Control Protocol

Seizing The Means Of Production (Again)

TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again On Tahoe

Moltbot, Accelerando in our timeline

Notes for January 19-25

Bugs Apple Loves

Notes for January 1-18

My Rube Goldberg RSS Pipeline

A Plan9 AI agent

The Dilbert Afterlife

Notes on SKILL.md vs MCP

Apple introduces Apple Creator Studio

When OpenCode decides to use a Chinese proxy

Mis-resizing windows in macOS Tahoe

Lisbon Film Orchestra

How Markdown Took Over the World

How I Manage My Personal Infrastructure in 2026

Intricuit Magic Screen for MacBook

It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons

Clicks Communicator

Clicks Communicator

eSIM is still only convenient for carriers

eSIM is still only convenient for carriers

Notes for December 25-31

Notes for December 25-31

TIL: Restarting systemd services on sustained CPU abuse

TIL: Restarting systemd services on sustained CPU abuse

QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop

QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop

AI Usage Policy

Predictions for 2026

AirDrop, now with more friction

Providable, a Christmas present

Notes for December 9-24

Agentic Systems

Agentic Systems

The Big Blue Room

My Favorite Apps of 2025

The TRMNL (DIY Everything Edition)

20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple

Notes for November 23–December 8

Nimble Commander

The RAMpocalypse is Nigh

Controlling Steam Link Servers via HomeKit

Bun Joins Anthropic

Arturia AstroLab 37

Notes for November 17-22

Enabling iPad Features on the iPhone

Notes for November 1-16

The LattePanda IOTA

Apple to Remove iPhone-Watch Wi-Fi Sync in EU

Reviving a MacBook Air with Fedora Silverblue

The Week I Built Half a TOTEM

Notes for October 13-31

A Minor Rant About Cloudflare UX

OpenAI Acquires Sky, all they need now is ...Net?

Apple adds 'Tupperware Mode' to iOS 16.1

Ten Years at Microsoft

NVIDIA DGX Spark: A Box of AI Chocolate

Notes for September 29-October 12

Synology walks back HDD/SSD lock-in policy

Qualcomm Acquires Arduino

Warming UK homes, 500 Raspberry Pis at a time

Creating Per-Project MCP Servers

Notes for September 22-28

Raspberry Pi 500 Plus

Benjamin Button Reviews macOS

The Cudy AX3000 Wi-Fi 6 System (with OpenWRT)

AI Image Generation

AI Image Generation

AI Speech Technologies

Model Context Protocol

Large Language Models

Large Language Models

Model Context Protocol

KeePassium (Pro)

Kubernetes (k8s)

RP2040 and RP2350

RP2040 and RP2350

Visual Studio Code

ESP8266 (and ESP32)

ESP8266 (and ESP32)

Clojure(Script)

Window Managers

Window Managers

Virtual Network Computing (VNC)

The IMAP Protocol

Assistive Technologies

macOS (formerly Mac OS X)

Artificial Intelligence