Verily

Today, I wanted to try out my newly downloaded Gemma3 model and see if it could answer a question that had been on my mind lately: There are are quite a few features and similarities between BBEdit and Emacs.

Ellie, not knowing if she wants to go back in, or to snuggle Just loungin' with his dad Ellie is checkin' out the digs, seein' if there's room.

I feel drained, lately.

Sometimes.

I wanted to see if I was missing out on anything in the built-in Apple Terminal app over using GhosTTY, which is really fast.

A Much Improved CNN Homepage I mean, just look at that tummy!

One of the challenges of being someone who really likes Emacs is accepting that, in today’s world, interacting with most people means dealing with calendar appointments via email—usually through Outlook or iOS/macOS Mail.

Who…?

Jump to 32:59 to hear the idiocy.

The Future is Now I’ve waited so long for this!

The world is on fire.

I had no idea that macOS was able to run iOS and iPad apps if you have an M-series processor.

One of the assistants in our C-suite gave me one of these to try.

One of the founders of Fosstodon , Kev , is leaving the organization over issues with drama and content moderation issues .

You Are Enough.

A recent, and I’d say pretty damning, report on the financial stability of Backblaze (and thus my off-site backups) has got me looking at alternatives.

The Undesirables watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?

I wanted to start this post off by being all panicky and saying that I’m swearing off Claude because The Gub’ment shouldn’t be using the same AI as I do because it’s not cool anymore.

Oh goddamn it.

While I don’t do a lot of image editing, I do more than I think most of the people I know do .

I’ve been a paying Kagi user for nearly two years, now.

Nothing like lazing around on a Caturday

Voldomort at Least had Smooth Skin Please, feel free to light your own hair on fire instead of the next cigar you witch.

I took a crack at making a new Hammerspoon Lua script.

I stopped associating with sycophants

Back in the wild-west of computing, in the enlightened age of Lisp-machines , a legendary keyboard that had an outsized influence on the computing world around it arose.

I’m learning all sorts of crappy things today: My therapist is leaving the practice she worked at, so now I’m on my 4th therapist in ~5 years.

For when you want to pray away the gay, but still want that sweet, sweet money lender income .

Though, I don’t think he took the right message from that episode…

“Google is Winning on Every AI Front” .

caffeine = hs.menubar.new() function setCaffeineDisplay(state) if state then caffeine:setTitle("☕️") caffeine:setTooltip("Device is being kept awake") else caffeine:setTitle("😴") caffeine:setTooltip("Device is allowed to sleep") end end funct…

Today, I’d like to talk about Windows.

I’ve been reading the crap out of the BBEdit manual .

So, I went and watched the “A Minecraft Movie”.

Ugh Me, dressed as a Norse God holding a hammer in one hand, and a spoon in the other Source: Apple’s AI Image Playground Sigh.

So, going back to my love of all things text and, by extension, terminal-based.

Yeah, I know there were lots of other cool announcements for the Switch 2, and I can rave about those some other time when I actually use it, but this… this is 👨‍🍳 😘 🤌 OMG YES It’s all I ever wanted and more!

So, I’m adding featured images to my posts.

I work in a high-tech, highly regulated environment.

A few months ago, I talked about Emacs and the various ‘fileset’ functions that were buried in it’s voluminous core of goodies.

I’m not even sure what to make of this anymore.

SQUIRREL!

Hrnnnngg….

I can do Apple AI failure posts too!

Fucking turd-burgler .

The old trusted-and-true editor for macOS, BBEdit, is still alive and kicking.

There are more bangers on their account, including (and I’m not joking) “Vapo McJuicy” I have no notes.

I have become mac, emulator of worlds Infinite Mac has updated their online emulators to support some early versions of Mac OS X (yes, instead of just macOS).

Today’s a great day for being outside.

It looks like the New York University website has been hacked1 and defaced by some racist language and cherry-picked data.