Text-Only & Minimalist News Sites
Text-only websites are quite useful, especially today, because web pages are increasingly filled with ads, videos, and bandwidth-heavy content.
Read more →The Day I Nearly Drowned
As I reflect on another memory from my childhood, it becomes clear just how fortunate I was to have survived growing up at all.
Read more →I Let Claude Code Create a Blogging Platform for Me. You Won't Believe What Happened!
Yes, it's a clickbait title, but seriously. The results turned out to be pretty incredible if you ask me.
Read more →A Battery Saving Tahoe Feature Many Could Use
This will be a nice feature for Mac users to help extend battery life.
Read more →🎉 Woohoo! We have officially planned and booked all of our spring & summer RV trips. It feels good to finally have something on calendar again since we weren’t able to do any trips last year due to my heart surgery and recovery. I think we may need to do a few in September, October and November too.
After reading Terry Godier’s post about his new app, Current, it piqued my interest enough to part with the $10 for a multi-device app just to see what it can do. I like the premise a lot, and think it speaks to my own nuking of nearly all feeds I was following in NetNewsWire the other day.
I made some really, really good progress on my new Mac app today. I’m super happy with how it turned out and where it’s headed. The domain name for it was available too (miracle of miracles), so I grabbed it. Yes, I’m being a little vague right now. When it’s ready for testers, I’ll put out a call.
A tremendously productive day today. Overgrown weeds in the backyard cleaned up, TV in the RV rewired, toolbox cleaned up (a little) and, thanks to Claude Code, great progress made on a new Mac app I’ve always wanted to write. It was a good day.
As a Claude Code test this morning, I spun up an empty Xcode project, gave a short prompt about the history of my old Mac maintenance app, Yasu, and then provided it a screenshot, telling it to write me the SwiftUI code for it.
Holy moly, the results were pretty darned good…
When using chat (Teams, Slack, etc.) at work, if you react to a post with a 👍🏻 emoji or similar, don’t post a message that says “thanks” too. It’s totally redundant and is just as bad as the one line “thank you” email that I rail against.