Coyote Tracks

John Gruber, “X Once Again Marks the Spot”: If you have stayed away, or even just mostly away, from X for years and then come back, people just say things like “Hey, glad you’re back!”

Back in mid-September, I wrote about reconsidering my Apple Watch use, in large part because I don’t like the promised upcoming “Audio Intelligence” features.

“We built Muse to help people build the world they want.” — Alexandr Wang of Meta Most people never say what they want.

Last year, I wrote an article called “Seriously, Markdown” in which I gently dismantled the “nobody can do serious writing in Markdown” arguments that come up every so often.

For most of my life, I just wasn’t a watch person.

I came across a blog post today that hit me harder than expected.

I’ve long liked Federico Viticci’s MacStories, although I’ve drifted away from it as it’s gotten more focused on AI lately.

In July 2022, I wrote “Thoughts on Leaving California” about my move back to Florida after twenty years in the Golden State; I followed it a year later with “A Year Back in Florida”, which ended with “I’ll check back in after another year.”

There’s been buzz recently about how a nascent web and mobile astronomy app, Dark Hours, got wildly incorrectly rejected from Apple’s App Store.

I’ve written before about being between two communities with very different attitudes toward our current generative AI moment: Artists, writers, and other (non-tech) creators mostly loathe it with every fiber of their being, to the point where they’ll voc…

Back in the olden days, there was an Insert key on Mac keyboards.

In November of last year, I wrote about what I did and didn’t want to do in Emacs.

If you’ve been on the Internet in the last fifteen years and change, you’ve probably heard of Soylent, whether you wanted to or not.

Not so long ago, I considered myself basically a capitalist, and—echoing folks like Ralph Nader and Elizabeth Warren—would have said our problems are with corporate capitalism.

I shared a LinkedIn post with that title last week.

John Gruber linked to a piece by Sam Henri Gold entitled “This Is Not the Computer for You”, which both is and isn’t an article about the MacBook Neo.

While I don’t think Apple Podcasts itself has a “trim silence” feature, it’s popular in a bunch of podcast players.

For someone who’s neither all-in on AI nor a passionate anti-AI crusader, I think about it a lot.

It’s a match made in…frankly, I’m not sure where.

Whenever I make a big purchase—a TV, a new computer, a car, an A/V receiver—I inevitably enter a long period of internal debate, arguments and counter-arguments, pros and cons.

If you poke around the Emacs community, you’ll quickly find some—all right, loads of—users who want to do everything in Emacs.

Matt Novak, writing at Gizmodo on October 22: President Donald Trump is currently demolishing the East Wing of the White House in one of the more shocking acts of his second term.

Back in the dark ages (the 1990s), I was an inveterate operating system switcher.

Every so often, there’s a surge of “here’s why no one can do serious writing in Markdown” articles.

“It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity” isn’t as much an aphorism as a punchline, as people point out—often with an unwarranted hint of smugness, as if nobody else had made this observation before—that 95° F is too damn hot no matter how humid it is.

So, you might know that I’m a text editor junkie.

I’ve written before how there are two opposing views of large language models and generative AI, with little to no space between them.

Did you know em dashes are a sign of AI writing?

On Mastodon recently, I wrote: As I play around with more code editors: Zed is pretty neat, although it pushes “AI code assist” to a mildly annoying degree—and despite technically being a native app, it’s no more Mac-like than Neovim is.

Years ago, a friend of mine who also uses Macs told me a story about why another mutual Mac-using artist friend chose the Mac over the PC some three decades ago.

My last post mentioned one of my favorite new-to-me bloggers of late: Ed Zitron, who’s staked out a position for himself as the AI skeptic’s AI skeptic.

Back in the early, early days of the web, Slate ran a column called “The Reluctant Capitalist.”

For years, one of the highlight shows of Anthrocon, a furry convention in Pittsburgh, was a comedy act put on by an aspiring professional comedian who was part of that community.

I’ve been thinking a bit about two pieces that talk about Substack, the massively popular and occasionally controversial newsletter platform: Anil Dash’s “Don’t Call it a Substack” John Gruber’s “Regarding—and, Well, Against—Substack” They both come to the

It’s so easy, watching on the news, to scream at people who don’t evacuate ahead of oncoming storms.