I chose to nuke all of my RSS feeds in NetNewsWire this morning, save one (try to guess which - it’s not one of mine), with the plan of starting fresh. I was marking most feeds read without even bothering to even skim over them. It seemed pointless to keep such noise around.
I just subscribed to a year of Anthropic’s Pro Plan. Let’s see what kind of trouble Claude Code can get me into…
📷 I managed to catch a full end-to-end rainbow coming out of the dentist office yesterday afternoon…
My RSS VibeReader project turned out pretty much how I wanted it to, and I learned a lot. I use it daily to read certain feeds. But, now that it’s done, I need a new “something” to put my energy into. I think I need to start a podcast and learn all about that now. Searching for a subject…
So I started a thing. Like I said, it was right around the corner…
I’m finding myself in a creative slump right now. This is awesome, because it’s times like these I make new discoveries…
I spent some time away from Micro.blog, intentionally not viewing my own site. I did today and realized that mnml actually ended up being a pretty good looking theme…
I’ve been considering making a move from 1Password to a Bitwarden Enterprise subscription. Having been a 1P user for a very long time, I’m hesitant about making a change, but would like to save the $18 a year. Someone talk me off the ledge – one way or the other…
Lazy is as lazy does when it comes to making a buck or writing code.
Usually, I’ll leave the outside Christmas decor up until New Year’s Day. It’s been a tradition of my family since I was a kid. But since rain is forecast for SoCal from Wednesday through Sunday, I quickly took it all down yesterday. Surprisingly, I’m a little sore because of it today.
To go along with a simpler approach to life in 2026, I created a new Micro.blog theme based on the mnml framework, stripping out a lot of the features I added over the last year. This one will remain for my personal use.
I have just one goal for 2026… To simplify as much as I can.
Sometimes you simply need to declare bankruptcy on your RSS feeds and just mark them as all read…
Speaking of Kagi; I’m a little late to the party, but I get it now. I didn’t think I’d have use for a paid search engine, but I think I’m sold on it. The only challenge is being mindful of the number of searches per day. If I stick with it, funding for other online things will need to take a hit.
I’m taking a look at the Orion web browser this morning. I like it so far, though I know I’ll probably end up sticking with one of the well established browsers for my day to day. I like that Kagi is the default search engine.
Sometimes failure should be the only option…
Old habits will try every trick in their bag to stick around as an old friend.
I’ve decided to move my wife and me from iCloud mail with custom domain over to Fastmail. Both are pretty secure, but Fastmail does better in the privacy department overall, plus it has a whole bunch of other benefits. I think that’s worth $96/year.
If you’re a mnml user and you’ve tried adding the new PageFind action to a search page, but got nothing, well, it’s because some of mnml’s existing search styles conflict. I’ll work on fixing this soon. Sorry if this has tripped anyone up.
It’s that time of year where I and others look back at the macOS tools that made us productive over the last 52 weeks.