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MapToPoster

I stumbled upon this beautiful utility to create minimalist posters of the (water)ways of a city. If you have uv, …

pythontechnology reviewmaps
Jan 2026
1 min

Deep Clean and Optimize your Mac with Mo

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 …

macosopen-sourcetechnology review
Jan 2026
1 min

Benchmarking AI models at Scale

I just stumbled upon this (free) app, called Concurrent, that lets you benchmark different LLMs across speed, cost, and …

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Dec 2025
1 min

Hey Claude, delete my home folder

Use agents, they said. You will save time, they said. Tools like Anthropic Claude CLI, OpenAI Codex, Gemini CLI, etc. …

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Dec 2025
1 min

Forced Update to iOS 26

David Smith, colloquially known as _, has compared iOS 18 with iOS 26 adoption. Today, he tooted that someone at Apple …

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Dec 2025
1 min

Goodbye, Firewire my old friend

Sad news if the trends continue until the official release of macOS Tahoe: FireWire will not be supported by newer …

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Jun 2025
1 min

Markdown List Continuation in Helix

One of the gripes I have with Helix is not having automatic list continuation when writing Markdown. Until last week, …

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Feb 2025
1 min

Things we learned about LLMs in 2024

Reading Simon Willison‘s excellent blog on “Things we learned about LLMs in 2024”, made me realize why we’re not seeing …

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Jan 2025
1 min

Binepad BNK8 Macropad

Beautiful macropad by Binepad. Imagine the possibilities when customizing the firmware via Via and QMK! A render of the …

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Sep 2024
1 min

A culture of brutal honesty

Insightful linked post from John Gruber on why the AI pin flopped. This bit stood out to me as particularly insightful: …

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Jun 2024
1 min

watchOS 10 weather complication woes

I’ve been bitten by this bug since getting a new Apple Watch. Unfortunately, I had to revert to resetting all my …

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Oct 2023
1 min

Fish 3.6.0

Amazing new release of fish adding Control - R to open the command history in the pager. It’s fully searchable and …

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Jan 2023
1 min

Easy to use macOS disk cleanup tools

A small utility to — unobtrusively — scan your macOS disk to remove caches and other files and folder that can be clean …

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Oct 2022
1 min

New Airpods

Two years ago I replaced my Airpods with the Airpods Pro. The upgrade was significant and necessary, as after 2-3 years, …

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Sep 2022
2 min

OpenAI Whisper

OpenAI has just open sourced Whisper, an automatic speech recognition. I just tried it out and I’m blown away. …

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Sep 2022
2 min

1Password Series C

My password-manager of choice, 1Password, doesn’t care about the consumer market anymore. Read their Series C …

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Jan 2022
2 min

Google can be creepy

On Wednesday July the 10th, the Dutch website NOS broke the news that people employed by or through Google, listen to …

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Jul 2019
1 min

Get started with miniflux

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 …

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Jun 2019
8 min

A biased view of the whole Mac vs PC discussion

The Mac vs PC debate is practically as old as the youngest of the two platform. I’ve tried to take a biased look …

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Nov 2017
7 min

Hugola

Approximately a month ago I fell for the new Dell XPS 15. It had the right price/spec combination (I went for the …

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Dec 2015
3 min

Normal mode in Vim

I consider myself an advanced Vim user. But I always found annoying the multiple cursors support that Vim has (through …

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Jun 2015
1 min

Gone Microsoft

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, …

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Apr 2014
7 min

Web Excursions for April 01, 2014

git-prune-merged Prune all those pesky branches that you have already merged, both locally and from remotes. On GitHub. …

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Apr 2014
1 min

Github Pull Request Triage

Here’s an interesting project by Peter Bengtsson of Mozilla to get an overview of the pull requests for a given …

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Mar 2014
1 min

Bootstrappified

I’ve finally bit it and started using Twitter bootstrap for my website and the blog. It was a bit of work …

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Mar 2014
1 min

Stop reading HN, start reading HN newsletter

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 …

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Sep 2011
7 min

What would you buy first?

Ben Brooks asks: if you would have to rebuy all of your software, which would be the order of buying? Here’s mine …

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May 2011
1 min

Tweetbot

Well, the screenshots speak from themselves. Gorgeous Twitter client from tapbots. Now I long for a Mac version.

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Apr 2011
1 min

Encrypted backups with Time Machine

If you wish to keep an offsite Time Machine backup in a place which you don’t consider safe (for me it’s my …

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Mar 2011
1 min

DickBar

Twitter’s official iPhone app, formerly Loren Brichter’s Tweetie and an otherwise awesome client, got a lot …

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Mar 2011
1 min

Papers and the Mac App Store

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 …

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Mar 2011
1 min

On the iPad 2

Everybody these days is chatting about the forthcoming iPad 2. In particular, people are wondering whether it will have …

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Jan 2011
4 min

Background color with Skim

Today I stumbled upon a Lifehacker article which explained how to change the background color in Adobe Reader, when …

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Feb 2010
1 min