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April 13, 2026 The Guardian If you are one of Meta’s almost 79,000 employees and cannot get hold of the boss, do not worry.

April 11, 2026 It seems likely that you’ll soon be leading Apple, which will place unfathomable responsibility on your shoulders.

April 8, 2026 I read something today that left me with a lingering dread.

April 1, 2026 The Trillionaire Problem Scott Galloway: "But Musk owns roughly 42% of SpaceX, so this IPO could make him the first recorded trillionaire in history.

March 31, 2026 I'm a fan of the Pivot podcast with Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway.

March 30, 2026 Breezy and 71 this afternoon.

March 27, 2026 I switched to Firefox a few weeks ago and here's why: Firefox's "Clear cookies and site data every time you close Firefox" setting (under Privacy & Security) gives me fine-grained control over what gets wiped on quit.

March 26, 2026 I've had a Medium account since 2015 with several hundred posts, and still pulling around 500 views a week, all free and outside the Partner Program.

March 21, 2026 I've been busy working outside for the past three days.

March 17, 2026 I came across a great piece by Ben Lovejoy on 9to5Mac that offered a new perspective on Apple's MacBook Neo.

March 12, 2026 I've noticed that I type faster and more accurately on my 11" iPad Magic Keyboard than on my MacBook Pro's full-size keyboard when I occasionally write blog posts on my 11" M2 iPad Air.

March 11, 2026 Houdah Blog HoudahSpot was never designed to replace Finder.

March 8, 2026 Most of the snow has finally melted.

March 6, 2026 Font Awesome Kickstarter campaigns live and die by momentum in the first 48 hours, and ours ran out of steam before most of our audience even knew it existed.

March 1, 2026 The ldstephens.net site was migrated from WordPress using the 11ty Base Blog and the WordPress import plugin.

February 26, 2026 I ask myself more questions.

February 25, 2026 Last October, I wrote about Carrot Weather's limited data sources.

February 22, 2026 I came across this piece by Greg Morris today and it's been rattling around in my head ever since.

February 21, 2026 Fun, fun, fun!

February 20, 2026 The security issues impact Live Server (CVE-2025-65715), Code Runner (CVE-2025-65716), Markdown Preview Enhanced (CVE-2025-65717), and Microsoft Live Preview (no identifier assigned).[…] Also, it is advisable to remove unnecessary extens…

February 17, 2026 I've often wondered if there was a way to switch between windows within the same application without using the Window menu.

February 17, 2026 Apple Support: If iPhone isn’t responding, and you can’t turn it off then on, try forcing it to restart.

February 14, 2026 A few months back, Nicolas Magand wrote about giving his site the "club racer treatment" — stripping it back to focus on what actually matters.

February 11, 2026 I recently made a small change to this 11ty site: I moved from external CSS to inlining my stylesheet directly in the HTML.

February 9, 2026 This morning, I was looking for something to read and browsed the Bearblog discovery feed.

February 9, 2026 I recently mentioned using FSNotes for note-taking and quick capture.

February 7, 2026 On a recent podcast, I heard [Jason Snell(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Snell_(writer)) mention that he had created a simple Python app to automate a task on his Mac.

February 4, 2026 I'm not trying to escape Apple I'm staging a protest.

February 2, 2026 Today, I spent far too much time fucking with Apple Shortcuts just to do something embarrassingly simple: append the current date and time to a specific Bear note on iPadOS.

January 31, 2026 I came across plaintextproject.online and, after reading a few posts, I was reminded why I keep all my writing, journals, notes, and quotes in a repository of markdown files instead of trapping them in a proprietary database app.

January 30, 2026 The Macalope Based on who he likes to hang out with on a Saturday night, one wishes Apple CEO Tim Cook were a bit more of a homebody.

January 28, 2026 Devices, apps which should I use, and for what?

January 26, 2026 Giles Turnbull Gemini and other tools like it aren’t intended for me - they’re for people who find writing hard.

January 25, 2026 It's snowing and blowing, with a temperature of 24 degrees but a windchill making it feel like 10.

January 24, 2026 It's really fucking cold this morning.

January 22, 2026 While I was laying down to take a nap today (yes I take a nap every afternoon) I started thinking about what a fucking shit show social media is and how in my opinion it is destroying society.

January 21, 2026 I have a folder of quotes I've collected over the years.

January 20, 2026 This morning, after my walk with Trix, I sat down at my MacBook, scanned my RSS feeds, and checked my email.

January 15, 2026 Andre Franca, Why do you run a blog?

January 06, 2026 Joan Westenberg Start a blog.

December 23, 2025 I like tinkering with 11ty projects for learning and fun.

December 21, 2025 I’m tired of these leagues sprinkling their games across a million different outlets so I have to have a million different subscriptions to watch them all. jcarucci It's not just the NFL; it's true for all sports.

Clayton Errington A Webring is a collection of websites that share something in common with each other.

I’ve been digging into Scott Galloway’s take on healthcare, something he talks about a lot on Pivot and honestly, his phased Medicare expansion idea makes a lot of sense for America.

I have three main repositories for storing all my digital information: My File Cabinet (iCloud storage) Financial Archive (local storage) Writing (local storage) Everything is indexed in DevonThink for easy access and searchability.

On Friday, I was working in Safari on my MacBook and needed to sign in to a few accounts.

Kev A look at why small, personal websites don’t need big-tech static hosting, and how a simple local build and rsync workflow gives you faster deploys, more control, and far fewer dependencies. […] It got me thinking about my fellow small-web compatriots,

Despite what sites like ProBlogger say, I don’t have a niche, and I don’t try to grow my audience (I don’t even know how big my audience is).

Howard Oakley DS_Store files contain a folder’s custom attributes, data like icon positions, and in more recent versions of macOS custom settings for the display of file metadata.

I did a little digital housekeeping today.