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I recently read a great post from Matt Haughey about his time spent working in a bike shop as a teenager and it got me a little nostalgic about my own teenage “bike shop” experience and thought I’d share it.

I think instead of banning social media for kids, we should ban the use of algorithmic content feeds for kids (and mandate it be opt-out for adults.)

inText is about one thing: keeping your notes organized so you can always get back to the one you want, quickly, from whatever direction you happen to be coming from.

If all goes according to plan, Coefficiencies should now be sporting a slightly new look, with Space Grotesk (the font I used for the site’s logo) as the default header and title font throughout.

I just shipped a few new updates to macAppLibrary based on a couple of suggestions from the little community of users using it.

Hello, and welcome to issue 9 of the Coefficiencies Newsletter!

Many, many years ago, in 2010, I got the idea for a board game called “Monster Tournament.”

I’m a coffee snob.

I didn’t and still have not jumped on the OpenClaw bandwagon.

My RSS reinvention continues.

I gave Readwise Reader a good run, but honestly I was never a fan of their iOS app.

inText is a native notes app for a folder of plain Markdown files.

Effective Date: June 14, 2026 inText is built to keep your notes yours.

Just a short note to say that I just launched a little resource planning app for MacOS called, imaginatively, Resource Planner.

I’m really happy to announce not one, but two new apps I’ve released this week.

menuDrop tl;dr I made a little Mac app to access your Raindrop bookmarks easily from your Mac’s menu bar.

Wow, it’s certainly been a while since I’ve posted on the site or sent a newsletter.

Remaining is fairly simply to set up, but here’s a quick primer in case you need help.

Effective Date: January 31, 2026 Remaining is designed with your privacy in mind.

A while back I wrote about how I budget with Shortcuts on iOS.

AnyBox MCP Server After being a ChatGPT guy since pretty much launch, thanks to Claude Code and my increasingly worrying vibe coding addiction, I’ve paid for a month of Claude Pro and tried out the desktop app.

The Coefficiencies Newsletter Issue 8 Hello, welcome to issue 8 of the Coefficiencies Newsletter!

Hey, welcome to the Coefficiencies Newsletter Issue 7!

Hey, welcome to issue 6 of the Coefficiencies newsletter!

As I mentioned before, I’ve been experimenting with “vibe coding.”

Hey, welcome to issue 5 of the Coefficiencies newsletter!

I’ve never been good at keeping my files neatly organized.

I’ve just finished Day 2 of the Enterprise Tech Leadership Summit in Las Vegas.

One more test to see that new posts are getting picked up by my Active Pieces workflow automatically.

I’m on my way to a tech conference this week in Las Vegas.

Welcome to the Coefficiencies newsletter issue 4!

When I was a kid in the 80s, I remember watching movies where people “hacked” into computers by hammering away at a terminal.

Hey, welcome to issue 3 of the newsletter!

My wife and I were very fortunate to get tickets to see Jerrod Carmichael this week at a comedy club that is maybe a 30 minute walk from our house.

Hello, and welcome to issue 2 of the Coefficiencies newsletter!

So after getting Active Pieces set up successfully, it started crashing on me.

Want to make sure this will post to socials.

I’ve long found web-based “low code” automation tools like IFTTT, Make.com and Zapier handy for automating small web-based workflows— posting to social channels, updating records in Airtable or Notion, and the like.

Welcome to the first issue of the new Coefficiencies newsletter!

On our nightly walk this evening, my wife made the interesting observation today that what we did as kids and teenagers, we’re still doing now, and it really resonated with me.

I recently got a few reasonably priced smart door/window sensors (from Aqara, which I highly recommend) to help me do a few fun home automations around the house based on doors or windows opening or closing.

I’ve been tinkering with my website for the past two years, and every time I think I’ve found “the way,” I discover another tweak that makes life easier.

So we went to Montréal for the Osheaga music festival with the kids this summer and I tried to keep the kit as light as humanly possible.

I recently went through a bit of a ‘home server’ refresh and thought I’d document the experience here.

I’ve been trying to weigh myself every day, one so I get a good rolling average of my weight to account for fluctuations, and two so I’m more cognizant of my weight and can hopefully shed a few pounds.

This post started as a quick note in the MacStories Discord, but I’ve expanded it here because it’s something I keep coming back to.

I’ve been going down a serious Home Assistant rabbit hole lately.

Tech nostalgia I think about this a lot wrt to tech in general.

Every day I am just more and more impressed by Home Assistant.

For the past couple of years, I’ve been helping organize the Somewhat Reunion - a get-together for folks involved in Queen’s Drama in the early 2000s.