Writing — 33 posts
Self-written, for good or for worse
I stumbled upon this beautiful utility to create minimalist posters of the (water)ways of a city. If you have uv, …
I just stumbled upon Mole, a utility to clean and optimize Macs. What stood out to me is fact that it packs a bunch of …
I just stumbled upon this (free) app, called Concurrent, that lets you benchmark different LLMs across speed, cost, and …
Use agents, they said. You will save time, they said. Tools like Anthropic Claude CLI, OpenAI Codex, Gemini CLI, etc. …
David Smith, colloquially known as _, has compared iOS 18 with iOS 26 adoption. Today, he tooted that someone at Apple …
Sad news if the trends continue until the official release of macOS Tahoe: FireWire will not be supported by newer …
One of the gripes I have with Helix is not having automatic list continuation when writing Markdown. Until last week, …
Reading Simon Willison‘s excellent blog on “Things we learned about LLMs in 2024”, made me realize why we’re not seeing …
Beautiful macropad by Binepad. Imagine the possibilities when customizing the firmware via Via and QMK! A render of the …
Insightful linked post from John Gruber on why the AI pin flopped. This bit stood out to me as particularly insightful: …
I’ve been bitten by this bug since getting a new Apple Watch. Unfortunately, I had to revert to resetting all my …
Amazing new release of fish adding Control - R to open the command history in the pager. It’s fully searchable and …
A small utility to — unobtrusively — scan your macOS disk to remove caches and other files and folder that can be clean …
Two years ago I replaced my Airpods with the Airpods Pro. The upgrade was significant and necessary, as after 2-3 years, …
OpenAI has just open sourced Whisper, an automatic speech recognition. I just tried it out and I’m blown away. …
My password-manager of choice, 1Password, doesn’t care about the consumer market anymore. Read their Series C …
On Wednesday July the 10th, the Dutch website NOS broke the news that people employed by or through Google, listen to …
This is another post that is totally a note for my future self. I don’t write on this blog often. But what I do, a …
The Mac vs PC debate is practically as old as the youngest of the two platform. I’ve tried to take a biased look …
Approximately a month ago I fell for the new Dell XPS 15. It had the right price/spec combination (I went for the …
I consider myself an advanced Vim user. But I always found annoying the multiple cursors support that Vim has (through …
My first machine was some IBM 286, which a neighbour gave to my father when I was a kid. At work they were upgrading to, …
git-prune-merged Prune all those pesky branches that you have already merged, both locally and from remotes. On GitHub. …
Here’s an interesting project by Peter Bengtsson of Mozilla to get an overview of the pull requests for a given …
I’ve finally bit it and started using Twitter bootstrap for my website and the blog. It was a bit of work …
You have to admit that, even though most of the news point and can be found elsewhere, Hacker News (HN from now on) is a …
Ben Brooks asks: if you would have to rebuy all of your software, which would be the order of buying? Here’s mine …
Well, the screenshots speak from themselves. Gorgeous Twitter client from tapbots. Now I long for a Mac version.
If you wish to keep an offsite Time Machine backup in a place which you don’t consider safe (for me it’s my …
Twitter’s official iPhone app, formerly Loren Brichter’s Tweetie and an otherwise awesome client, got a lot …
This is kind of a prediction, since at the time I’m writing this, Papers 2.0 is not out yet. But I think it all …
Everybody these days is chatting about the forthcoming iPad 2. In particular, people are wondering whether it will have …
Today I stumbled upon a Lifehacker article which explained how to change the background color in Adobe Reader, when …