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Knock out these simple chores on this day of fresh starts to keep you and your devices humming smoothly.

The online booking platform aims to streamline scheduling for everything from virtual appointments to workshops.

Watching LotR: The Two Towers and started looking through old Hobbit history and revisions. I don’t think I had ever read the 1937 version. This website has the original and updated text for chapter 5.

Happy new year! We made it!

API version 2026-01-01 returns prefixed IDs like sub_ and em_ instead of bare UUIDs

I'm enjoying the break between years, always get a lot of thinking and writing done in this period. Not much more to say but that's all for 2025. Bring on the next year.

Three good thoughts from Shane Parrish: Short-term results come from intensity. Long-term results come from consistency. ** Ninety percent of success can be boiled down to consistently doing the obvious thing for an uncommonly long period of time without convincing yourself that you’re smarter than you are. *** Working smart isn’t the opposite of working […]

Paul Frazee blogs about AT Protocol and building different kinds of apps on the same underlying architecture and storage:

Connected clouds solve a lot of problems. You still have the always-on convenience, but you can also store your own data and run your own programs.

A look back at Apple’s 2025, with special guest Rene Ritchie.

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Nice post from Allan Pike examining how AI-enabled web browsers attempt to route queries to web search or answers. I like Dia but still prefer using a dedicated chat app when I actually want AI.

If you’ve ever used Linux, you might have heard of Vim. Don’t run away just yet. Yes, Vim is not

The post Is Neovim Your Next Favorite Development Tool? appeared first on The New Stack.

Had to redo my 2025 reading post because there was a comically wrong cached book cover. Guess it’s a reminder that I need to figure out a better way to preview Hugo shortcodes.

Parker Ortolani blogs five takes on 2025. On OpenAI:

OpenAI does its best work when it focuses on the models and the core app, which I fear it is getting slightly distracted away from.

I agree they are distracted, but I think the products are just as important as the models. Pulse could be built with any model, but only OpenAI has done it.

Parker also has a defense of Alan Dye:

iOS 7, watchOS, tvOS, the iPhone X experience, the Big Sur redesign, the Dynamic Island, visionOS, Liquid Glass and so much more have all defined his time at the company.

I was short of my goal for the year, but still read a lot of books that I enjoyed. Hope to read more in 2026! Just started Ship of Magic and I got Will of the Many for Christmas to read after that.

In cybersecurity, going solo rarely works. Historically, frameworks like CVEs, ATT&CK and software bills of materials (SBOMs) have shown that

The post SAFE-MCP, a Community-Built Framework for AI Agent Security appeared first on The New Stack.

Spurs. 🏀

Updated my portfolio with some previously missing photos, and removed some that didn't seem as good as I originally thought.

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Matthew Walther, in an opinion piece last week for The New York Times (gift link): MAGA’s internal culture has always rewarded theatrical confrontation over achievement. Boorishness commands attention, and boors mistake attention for leverage. Pseudo-martyrdom becomes an...