Decoding

Allen Ussher released Understory, a Zettelkasten app for the Mac where you nest notes under each other until a branch turns into an outline.

I have an old iPhone 14 Pro Max that I use for testing. iPhone Handoff would let me use the same number on it and my everyday iPhone, switching between them by unlocking the one I want to use.

Gruber’s piece gets at something I kind of miss: the Delicious Generation of Mac apps, when even a boring utility could have a personality.

Holy shit!

Oh, new Boards of Canada album!

I just love the design of this thing.

I created a demo video of how I started using Bike 2.0 extensions.

I’m restarting the usage of this Bike outline based blogging thing.

Honestly, the best thing about Spatialize Stereo on AirPods is that you can turn it off.

Your entire smart home in the macOS menu bar.

I keep a Zettelkasten, a personal knowledge base where I write notes and connect them over time.

I can safely say that Liquid Glass is the Butterfly Keyboard of software design.

I had my two previous post in the wrong format, so outgoing links didn’t work.

Personal knowledge manager (PKM).

A native macOS YouTube Music client built with Swift and SwiftUI.

Cupertino is an Obsidian theme, optimized for desktop and mobile devices.

All your Mac updates.

Owl is a note-taking app currently under development for Apple platforms.

I don’t usually do New Year’s resolutions, but this year I made an exception.

This is actually a pretty interesting way to think about which app should be used for which type of writing.

I’m writing on my blog from Bike today, which I still love.

The Archive (native) Plain-text Zettelkasten app with wiki-links, fast search, and minimal UI.

I’ve been looking for a tool that supports threaded thinking.

I’ve been running macOS Tahoe‘s new Liquid Glass design on my MacBook Air for a couple of days.

The new /context command in Claude Code revealed how I’m wasting tokens by having all MCP (Model Context Protocol) tools loaded into one session for every conversation.

A reference manual for people who design and build software.

Spent today designing the Rails controller layer for Pezeta.

I built the model layer for goal-oriented budgeting in Pezeta today.

Joan Westenberg: Two nights ago, I deleted everything.

LisaGUI is a web OS inspired by the Lisa Office System, Apple’s first graphical user interface (GUI).

Today I worked on planning Pezeta’s goal system.

Had a focused session today expanding the goal system design for Pezeta.

Today wrapped up the core data foundation with the Budget view model and spent time planning the goal allocation rules that’ll make this budgeting app different.

Day two of building Pezeta.

I recently shipped Context, a native macOS app for debugging MCP servers.

Finally decided to start building Pezeta today.

I actually learned a couple of new things about TextEdit and Terminal.

Mihai Parparita is asking on Mastodon: What are good examples of early Mac OS X software (10.0-10.4 era, pre-Intel switch)?

Blogging is essential because it provides knowledge and serves as a valuable reference for us and others.

Lately, I started to do a bunch of (what I call) Project-based Zettelkasten, which are just git repositories containing a bunch of Markdown files related to different projects.

I’m not a big fan of Arc (it just overcomplicates the browsing session), but if you want something similar based on Firefox, then the Zen browser could be interesting.

Steve Jobs said this in 2011: No ads.

This is not more for me, but I love the idea of using the MagSafe Wallet this way.

Mac(os)talgia is exploring my 2020 work-from-home routine with an added touch of nostalgia.

Yet more reading about President Musk (I’m gonna steal this).

Elon Musk’s unceasing attempts to access the data and information systems of the federal government range so widely, and are so unprecedented and unpredictable, that government computing experts believe the effort has spun out of control.

Continuing 3380: Maybe I should use tags as a thread title in a way that group posts together.

Continuing 3378: If you visit the front page of my blog, you’ll notice that I organize posts by day, inspired by the daily notes feature from Roam Research.

I sometimes think we might need different ways to share ideas instead of long articles—it’s important to mention that I’m talking about ideas, not stories.

I’ve been thinking about using voice input more in my workflow after watching Chris from DailyTekk talk about quitting typing.