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September 29, 2026 In emails, the employees said they worried that OpenAI’s newest artificial intelligence models were not being appropriately monitored during testing to gauge the technology’s sophistication and to secure the models, according to messages

September 26, 2026 As reports of OpenAI’s models breaking containment, hacking sites, and generally getting out of control pile up, the company has made the decision to pause training of its most powerful models.

September 26, 2026 I've been reading about the OpenAI agent incidents this week, and I can't stop thinking about them.

September 21, 2026 I've been experimenting with Spotlight's Siri AI integration since updating to macOS 27.

September 21, 2026 Ray Camden linked to RSS Lookup in his Links For You (9/20/26) post, and I thought I’d share it too.

September 15, 2026 Lately, I've been fucking around with different ways to organize my writing.

September 13, 2026 I have times when I'm just not motivated to do much.

September 7, 2026 I just read Winnie Lim’s post, Running a Personal Website Is Not Fun Anymore.

September 2, 2026 I'm religious about keeping my OSs updated.

August 27, 2026 I'm thinking about how I'm using AI and whether I've allowed Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini too much access to my data through plugins, extensions, MCP, Work or Cowork.

August 23, 2026 Anyway, what I really want to remark on here is the idea of using AI to brainstorm.

August 19, 2026 My sites have never been hugely popular and I’ve never had a large audience except for blips and spikes here and there.

August 17, 2026 Translation: No one can ever again use Claude for proofreading their own prose unless they’re willing to risk that the whole thing might be flagged as having been generated by Claude.

August 15, 2026 Since I moved my email back to Gmail, I’m letting my Fastmail subscription expire at the end of the month.

August 12, 2026 I saw this in my RSS feed this week.

August 10, 2026 Brandon shared a link to "The Guy at Wawa" story yesterday.

August 3, 2026 I watched a video yesterday about moving from third-party productivity apps to Apple's built-in Notes and Reminders, getting ready for Siri AI.

August 2, 2026 I spent 20 years in the equipment leasing business, so I have a lot of experience reading and interpreting lease agreements.

July 24, 2026 Garmin announced this week that it's acquired TrainingPeaks and TrainHeroic.

July 21, 2026 I've been thinking about this a lot lately: security and privacy are often discussed as if they're the same thing, or at least on the same team.

July 17, 2026 I haven't been blogging much lately.

July 9, 2026 Well, that was one hell of a Fourth of July weekend.

June 25, 2026 MacBook Neo ($100 increase) 256GB: $599 to $699 512GB : $699 to $799 […] 13-inch MacBook Air ($200 to $800 increase) 16GB, 512GB: $1,099 to $1,299 32GB, 4TB: $2,699 to $3,499 15-inch MacBook Air ($200 to $800 increase) 16GB, 512GB: $1,299 to…

June 24, 2026 Earlier this month, I wrote a post titled "Someone convince me to use Chrome".

June 21, 2026 I saved a guide called npm: A Free Guide for Beginners to GoodLinks the other day.

June 17, 2026 I got a notice the other day that iA Writer version 8 is out.

June 16, 2026 I’ve been using Drafts for years.

June 14, 2026 This morning, I read an MPU forum post about Devonthink.

June 12, 2026 For the last couple of weeks I've been testing Chromium-based browsers on my M4 MacBook Pro, thinking I might switch from Safari or at least find a new backup browser.

June 12, 2026 This line resonated with me because I've also found that the best way for me to understand a concept or idea is for me to write about it.

June 10, 2026 Claude is my go-to AI tool.

June 5, 2026 I found it interesting to come across two posts in my RSS feed about aging and eye problems the other day.

June 1, 2026 For my Drafts friends: FlohGro Every other year I get the urge to change the look of Drafts for me a bit.

June 1, 2026 Today I simplified my blog post publishing workflow by building a Drafts action, with help from Claude, that writes posts directly to my 11ty posts folder.

May 31, 2026 CNBC Artificial intelligence is turning out to be far more expensive than anyone expected, and CFOs at major U.S. companies are now facing a brutal new trade-off: tokens or humans.

May 27, 2026 I was bored this morning, so with Claude I built a set of shell scripts to export Bear notes to various locations, triggered via Keyboard Maestro.

May 26, 2026 I am aware that my time on Earth is finite.

May 18, 2026 Marked 3 is officially out Marked 2 will continue to be available for those who don’t need everything Marked 3 offers.

May 15, 2026 Monday I noticed an itchy spot on my upper back.

May 14, 2026 The other day I wrote in my notes: I'm contemplating migrating my task manager to the free version of Todoist.

May 12, 2026 I’ve been refining my file-over-app workflow lately.

May 11, 2026 I installed Hyperduck by Sindre Sorhus on my iPhone and Mac back in February 2023.

May 8, 2026 I keep a monthly journal in Markdown; one file per month, each entry stamped with the date and time.

April 28, 2026 Today I was working on a blog project collecting a bunch of post links to use in another project.

April 28, 2026 If you write about Mac keyboard shortcuts, there's a proper order for listing the modifier keys in a shortcut.

April 26, 2026 Yesterday, I read Nicolas Magand's blog post, "Sidelining Safari," which I found interesting because I recently switched to Firefox from Safari.

April 22, 2026 The other day I posted about cybersecurity concerns around Anthropic’s Mythos.

April 20, 2026 I use the free version of ChatGPT occasionally, and a week or two ago I started seeing ads.

April 16, 2026 After getting back from my daily walk with Trix this morning, I got to thinking about how having a dog is a great way to meet people.

April 15, 2026 I've shared my menubar apps before, but it's been a while so I figured it is worth a revisit.