Pretty significant bundle of apps in Apple Creator Studio. I’ve been using an old license of Final Cut Pro to edit my short videos recently, even though it’s overkill. Probably will keep doing that for now, don’t really need a new subscription.

Southwest is still my preferred airline but the new changes do hurt the experience. Paying for checked bags encourages people to stuff more bags overhead where they don’t fit. Paying for assigned seats ruins the checkout flow with upsells.

OpenAI acquires health startup Torch:

We started Torch to build a medical memory for AI, unifying scattered records into a context engine that helps you see the full picture, connect the dots, and make sure nothing important gets lost in the noise again.

This is pretty much exactly what I was blogging about last week.

Anthropic has bundled Claude Code features into a more user-friendly interface called Cowork. Looks good. Requires a Max subscription (💰) for now so I can’t try it.

Pretty good name, though not as good as Copilot and Codex. Still, I like where Anthropic is going with this.

Something feels off about this Apple and Google statement on Siri and Gemini. I’m left with more questions than I started with, particularly around this Gemini “cloud technology” mentioned in the statement.

Salvatore Sanfilippo, the creator of Redis, wrote over the weekend about AI for programming:

It does not matter if AI companies will not be able to get their money back and the stock market will crash. All that is irrelevant, in the long run. It does not matter if this or the other CEO of some unicorn is telling you something that is off putting, or absurd. Programming changed forever, anyway.

I’ve blogged a lot about AI. Part of it reminds me of this particular post from June last year. I can’t believe it was less than a year ago… Feels like two years ago, so much has happened.

I’m glad this blog post from Norbert Heger is getting so much attention. I thought I was losing my mind trying to resize macOS Tahoe windows. Even keeping the rounded window corners, Apple should be able to fix this now that it’s so perfectly illustrated.

You can subscribe to get an email each Monday of all my blog posts from the previous week. Even if no one subscribed, I’d keep this enabled because it’s nice to skim through and reflect on the last week. What was I focused on? What’s next? I’m usually surprised how many posts or photos there were.

The Internet Archive has more about the legacy of Stewart Cheifet and the digitization of his shows. Rest in peace. Glad to see such a long-running effort to archive his work.

Ben Thompson with a critique of the first live NBA game on Vision Pro:

Here’s the thing that you don’t seem to get, Apple: the entire reason why the Vision Pro is compelling is because it is not a 2D screen in my living room; it’s an immersive experience I wear on my head. That means that all of the lessons of TV sports production are immaterial.

Apple is overthinking it. People just want more content. One camera at every game instead of multiple cameras at only a handful of games. Worse is better.

I’m reading Station Eleven, finished a chapter and then checked the internet, my mind still halfway in the book. For a moment I wasn’t sure if I’d see people online talking about ICE, the federal reserve, or a new pandemic. Reality now as unsettling as fiction, and it all blurred together.

Back from NYC, here’s a short video from some time in the city.

Dan Moren makes a great point at Six Colors about the ongoing Grok is still in the App Store controversy:

It is absolutely unconscionable that, as of this writing, X is not only still on the App Store but is ranked #1 in “News” and that Grok is the #3 free app.

With trending lists, the platform owner cedes discovery to an algorithm. If Apple and Google aren’t ready to ban Twitter / X, the very least they could do is stop recommending the app to new users through these lists.

Matt Birchler on AI-assisted bespoke apps:

I’m calling it now: if 2025 was the year of “vibe coding,” 2026 is going to be the year of “micro apps.” It’s the year a meaningful number of people begin to solve their own problems by building custom software tailored specifically to their needs.

Finished reading: Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb. Starts slow, took about a third in until I really got into it. Fantastic. 📚

Argosy Book Store.

Maman coffee. ☕️

In New York City for a few days with family. Amazing time. Got to see Maybe Happy Ending last night which I loved.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

I expect a lot of people to be bothered by ChatGPT Health. Of course you shouldn’t use AI as a replacement for a human doctor. And what about privacy? AI for health questions has actually gotten really good in the last year. It’s better at explaining lab results. It’s better...

It has been an unbelievable nine years since I launched the Kickstarter for Micro.blog. Even after I finally published the book online, a few things still nagged at me about the structure and text. I had hoped in the last couple of years to address them. Actually running Mic...

I mentioned this on our bonus episode of Core Intuition last month, but I don’t think I’ve blogged about it… Sometimes AI will come up with something and I’ll think, “Damn, that is better than what I would have written myself.” Annoying! My only fix is to edit nearly everything to make it my own.

I wrote most of my book years ago, so this is the first time I’ve actually run it through AI to get some feedback on structure, redundancies to trim, and grammar problems. It’s valuable, but it’s also leaving me with doubt that I didn’t have before. Let’s say I let AI come u...

When I experimented with not federating my posts for a few months, I also accidentally muted everything from Mastodon. Now that I’m seeing everything again, I’m not sure my life is better. Perhaps there should be a preference to temporary hide external posts — Mastodon, Bluesky, Tumblr, etc.

Sean Heber blogs about the continued devaluation of software, comparing it to Zork in the 1980s.

In 2026 there is going to be more software than ever, much of at least AI-assisted if not outright slop, and so more competition. More indie developers, but maybe fewer successful ones.

Intrigued by the upcoming LEGO smart bricks. It’s crazy what is possible now. I ordered a few widgets from SparkFun the other day to experiment with… So tiny and powerful.

Satya Nadella started a new blog at the end of 2025. A couple interesting things about it… There is no mention of Microsoft, so it feels like a personal blog, and he quotes Steve Jobs:

A new concept that evolves “bicycles for the mind” such that we always think of AI as a scaffolding for human potential vs a substitute. What matters is not the power of any given model, but how people choose to apply it to achieve their goals.

Also his blog is using Hugo.

Great post today by Ben Thompson on the changes coming in the future, even as AI replaces some jobs:

All of that could very well be replaced by AI, but the point is that the history of humans is the continual creation of new jobs to be done — jobs that couldn’t have been conceived of before they were obvious, and which pay dramatically more than whatever baseline existed before technological change.

There will always be something to do. And humans will always seek out art and writing and anything crafted by humans, because we feel a connection with it.

John Voorhees revived his old Objective-C app with Claude Code and came away floored:

What I see is the foundation of a fundamental shift in the economics of building and maintaining apps. […] Will new opportunities emerge for indie developers to serve even narrower user segments as the time and effort to build new utility apps drops?

Yes. Small developers (especially generalists) have a new competitive advantage because they have all the capability of larger teams and none of the bureaucracy.

My book has about 65 short chapters. Each chapter has a quote at the beginning. I thought it would be fun to gather all of these together in a blog post, so here they are. (They aren’t in book order.) It’s not all the quotes in the book. There are hundreds of block quotes an...