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San Francisco, February 2026.

Kirk McElhearn (Bluesky, Hacker News): I use Apple News to keep up on topics that I don’t find in sources I pay for (The Guardian and The New York Times). But there’s no way I’m going to pay the exorbitant price Apple wants for Apple News+ – £13 – because, while you get more publications, […]

Colin Cornaby (Mastodon): Certain tasks have worked well for me. These tasks tend to fit the LLM model well. […] It’s probably not surprising that there is a relationship between the sunk cost fallacy and gambling. Gamblers get a huge dopamine rush when they win. Sunk cost fallacy feeds that. No matter how much they’ve […]

Day 37: 6.42 miles 🏃‍♂️💨 #eugenemarathon

I've been watching Jake do the Headless Frontier work with two different AI bots -- ChatGPT and Claude.ai. And as he's doing that, I'm slogging away the same way I've always done it, working on the top level user interface of WordLand. I don't see a way around it, because I h...

Another example of ChatGPT utility. Asked this question: "I have a function named viewFeedItem. Inside it has an icon that when you click it, it calls viewFeedItem to view the parent of the item. But I don't want it to call viewFeedItem directly because that leaves the previous instance of viewFeedItem around. In javascript what's the best way to defer the call to divFeedItem so that the two instances are unrelated, and the first instance goes away." I was pretty sure as I wrote this that setTimeout was the answer, but ChatGPT offered it as the first choice, and explained why it was the best. It's like having a code consulant, you're the surgeon and it's ready to help. And it really does help to know it parsed it the same way I did.

Good morning sports fans! Boy are we getting some fancy sports action. The Olympics have already started, with Milan as the host city. The opening ceremony is tonight. My longtime friend the brilliant and beautiful Anna Masera will be attending. I don't know if I can boast ...

Sometimes it takes a single piece in a jigsaw puzzle for the whole picture to come into shape. And that happened earlier this weekend. I was able to crystallize a lot of what I have been thinking about technologies colloquially known as “Artificial Intelligence.” And it happened because of a 40-year-old piece of software that …

Mark Alldritt (Mastodon): I’ve released a new command-line tool called AEQuery. It queries scriptable macOS applications using XPath-like expressions, translating them directly into Apple Events. The short version: you describe what you want using a slash-delimited path, and AEQuery resolves the SDEF terminology, constructs the Apple Events, and returns the results as JSON. […] The […]

Howard Oakley: Time Machine had happily gone that long without backing up or warning me that it had no backup storage. […] I think this results from Time Machine’s set and forget trait, and its widespread use by laptop Macs that are often disconnected from their backup storage. […] If you do just set it […]

Rich Trouton: Using the log command line tool doesn’t require root privileges or require admin authorization, but it needs to be run by a user with admin rights. […] What this does is create a sudo configuration which allows all members of the staff group on the Mac, which is a group that has all […]

Todd Heberlein: The first bug report, FB21850924, covers a terrible memory leak in SwiftUI’s Table view, a feature our program uses a lot. […] Despite the rapid updates to the data, the sample program only keeps 1000 records in a deque, so the memory usage should bounded. Strangely, switching to another view triggers Swift to […]

I still love my Keurig coffee maker. The coffee is delicious and hot and it's truly a technology marvel. So simple and easy to learn.

Day 36: Hoops Day 🏀 #eugenemarathon

I posted this on Twitter. An old fashioned scoop let. Peter Steinberger the creator of product formally known as Clawdbot is one hot commodity in Silly Over AI Valley. The word around Silicon Valley is that everyone from Meta to OpenAI to xAI wants a piece of OpenClaw and its creator. Zuck and Sam might …

Day 35: Recovery day. 😴

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News from the most-quoted blogs on Hacker News. Writeup is here.

Here's a news page with stories from the most-quoted blogs on Hacker News. A brilliant idea. All I did was give each item a category, and shortened the URL. The brief writeup is here.

I'm going to WordCamp Europe in June in Poland. Can't wait.

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