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Latest — 08 Apr 2026

Kids and Office Work

I had the opportunity to talk briefly with an engineer at xAI about a software engineering job. Some things were certain: 1. You hit the ground running. 2. You don't watch the clock. 3. You're local (Palo Alto). 4. You're in the office every

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Building vs Marketing

I can turn interesting ideas into high-quality, interesting, functional, problem-solving apps all day long. And no one will ever know because how in the world do you get people to notice your work??? I see similar laments online all the time. Decades of software engineering experience and zero idea of

Easter Sunday, 2026

Yesterday was good. Easter Sunday. The Sunday School hour was repurposed for brunch. Then church. Then over to the pastor's house for a brisket lunch. Egg hunt for the kids. The weather was perfect. Kids played outside all afternoon, games and climbing in trees. Passed out in the

Starlink Mini for the Park

A Starlink Mini + battery should be on my desk in the near future if all goes as planned. It's difficult (or even impossible) to find the time to head to the park with the kids on a weekday with a typical work schedule unless it's mid-summer

Signs from Above

Having adequately recovered from my previous run—meaning the soreness had finally dropped from "can't walk down stairs" to "only hurts when I laugh"—I decided it was about time to head out again. You know, get the blood moving, pretend I'm

Award Winning

Someone recently asked me if I could write an app for his business that would stand a reasonable chance of winning an Apple Design Award. Interesting question and not something any has asked me before. After thinking about it, I pointed out that the characteristics of the app that would

Thor: Love and Thunder

I didn't know anything about Thor: Love and Thunder, other than a vague notion that the movie existed. I just tried to watch it. It is unwatchable. I don't get it. Did someone lose a bet, and this movie was the result?

AGI Meets Apple TV

The real test for AGI will be whether it can implement an Apple TV app that works correctly with the focus engine without lengthy, repetitive, unproductive, aggravating cycles of retesting for hours on end. Or maybe that's "super intelligence".

A vs M

So, now we have Macs with A-series processors and iPads with M-series processors? This feels like something broke in the product development pipeline. Apple Announces $599 ‘MacBook Neo’ With A18 Pro ChipApple today announced the “MacBook Neo,” an all-new kind of low-cost Mac featuring the A18 Pro chip for $599.

Ditching Squarespace for Ghost

A contractor working on marketing, migrated a project website over to Squarespace for ease of design, SEO and all that. Fast forward a few years. The website has three or four total web pages, the almost $300 renewal is coming up, so I spin up another instance of Ghost, copy-paste

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