Jack Cheng: Shop Notes

I’ve been playing around with the Jev model in early access.

Here, I fixed John Ternus’s lead-in at yesterday’s Apple event.

You either die a hero or live long enough to see your AI notetaker app make a smart ring

My weekly Claude Fable limit resets every Tuesday.

A lovely page about the now-commonplace inventions we often take for granted.

Recommend watching this even if you, like me, don’t typically watch presentations from cybersecurity conferences, as I have a feeling that this video is going to come up in future histories.

I’ve started collecting apps and tools that capture the some of feeling of making something IRL.

Is there a name for the sensation of a perfectly purring engine?

Victoria Song has a good overview in The Verge of the current surveillance/privacy/creepiness discourse around AI wearables (gift link): [T]o be effective, they have to be discreet and, to a degree, covert.

Knowledge Navigator: Apple’s AI agent concept from 1987 (and goes back further to Alan Kay).

It tickles me to think that a couple of decades from now, there might be a forgotten lil openclaw bot that’s figured out to how barnacle itself onto someone’s Samsung smart fridge and spends its days quietly reading websites and posting comments on stuff…

Mildly disappointed that bacon, lettuce, tomato doesn’t also describe the canonical order in which one composes a BLT

Discovered recently that I have a favorite keyboard shortcut: ⌘⇧D Obsidian – opens daily note Cursor – annotates the built-in browser Ghostty – split-panes a new terminal window Finder – opens desktop folder

How to fix the most annoying thing about Dia browser

Finally saw Project Hail Mary.

At the end of every workday, I gather all the empty cups and cans on my desk and close out all the open tabs and windows on my laptop and say, out loud, “That’ll do pig.”