Digging for Fire

Can a blog post be handwritten?

I’m just reading through MacRumors today, and thinking about the new AirPods with camera, new HomePods, and an iPhone event in September.

While Joshua has been busy vibe-coding his own to-do app, I've been making my own brand of mischief over in hardware land.

I realize that some people really dislike AI, but this is an area where I'm willing to absolutely put my foot down as the top-level maintainer.

Hey, Turnis.

The killer use case for personal computers is text editing.

GenAI is not a bubble ready to burst.

I love teaching.

Every Friday night we invite guests for Shabbat dinner.

I'm writing this blog post using a JOMAA F01 folding keyboard with an Xteink X3.

I turned off all notifications on my phone.

One of the major mental models that informs my sense of place in the world is Input and Output.

Since 2021, I've recorded every Book, Film, and Television series I've seen each year. 2021 2022 2023 2024 Here are the best and worst of my Inputs for 2025.

I have been thinking a lot about my use and adoption of AI.

A great podcast depends on the natural rapport of the hosts.

This is a deeply personal post.

I was in a very demotivating university tutorial yesterday.

When something doesn’t work the way you’d like, what’s your first inclination?

I tried Dia.

I've been reading John Gruber's work since I was in high school.

I don't speak much about WordPress on this blog, but it's a very important part of my life.

I’m excited to announce Pretty Good Podcasts, a podcast network I’ve founded alongside Joshua and Jonathan Wold.

Just a few quick thoughts on my first real experimentation with on-device Apple Intelligence.

I've been working on some family genealogy, tracing back my maternal grandfather's line.

Bloom's Taxonomy is a mainstay in education circles.

Ugh.

I believe AI is a multiplier.

Pursuant to my previous post regarding the en dash (wherein I beseech readers to consider British style selections for the dash parenthetical), I further propose the adoption of a little non-standard grammar to more plainly distinguish human writing from…

Very important announcement.

I've been trying to reconcile the way I feel about AI.

I started out the year (or rather, finished last year) with the goal of writing, and publishing, regularly.

I have a deeply personal post I need to write, but it won't make sense without the context.

I have a deeply personal post I need to write, but it won't make sense without the context.

We're spending the last days of pesach in Mullumbimby.

When was the last time you were offline?

Out of sheer curiosity, I applied for a job that had a really interesting cross-over between Education and AI.

I received a proposal today.

Normally I start with a blog post that I then convert that into a podcast.

Welcome to Pirate School!

Say something profound Say something profound Say something profound Say something profound Pull it down from the heavens Pull it up from the ground Say something, Say something profound Say something oblique Say something oblique Some obscure reference S…

Pebble is back!

I've been interacting with quite a lot of Americans, Europeans, and Brits the last few days.

It's pretty rare to find people who live an Orthodox Jewish lifestyle where there's no Orthodox Jewish community.

My previous post was a little dense and academic.

I was recently introduced the sports psychology methodology called Ecological Dynamics.

The dragon is closing in.

Soundtrack for this post.

In order to, maybe, reach a wider audience, I’ve decided to change my position on social media.

Inspired by Matt Webb's Unoffice Hours, I've opened by calendar for 30 minutes every week.

Whenever I'm working on something new, my end goal is to distill it into the simplest version possible.