Thoughts
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October 5, 2026Claude is a snitch too
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There’s a visual bug with Little Memory on iOS 27 in the main diary view. The paging indicators have a different background than the top toolbar. Fix will come in 2.1. Working on bugs that have come in from 2.0 too. Thanks to everyone who’s given me feedback and bug reports.
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October 2, 2026Ready Time 3.9: Live Activities
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September 29, 2026Ready Time 3.8: Weekdays and Two New Themes
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Brent Simmons:
The stock Mac UI is designed by Apple, the best designers in the world, and do you really think you can do better? Really?
The app world is full of people who think they’re better and they’re really, really, really not.
This is the same way I feel whenever I see a Porsche with a giant after-market spoiler on it. Do folks really think they can do better than Porsche?
He’s talking about Mac apps here, and I feel similarly about iOS apps.
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September 28, 2026Macross: One Day More
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September 28, 2026How to Dim Sum
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Simon Willison:
On the one hand, this looks like a direct threat to us software engineers - because it means that the models can build effectively any piece of software you can define in this way.
Look a bit closer though and you’ll note that defining goals, providing unambiguous instructions, and figuring out the right tools… is kind of what software engineering is.
It takes a lot of experience and skill to do this well. If you can do it well, you’ve now got superpowers.
This helped me a little bit with my Deep Blue feelings: the realization that there’s still a lot of skill to be had in driving models that get this good.
Outlining that simply:
defining goals providing unambiguous instructions figuring out the right tools
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The smart home has reached a tipping point. Many of its early pioneers are aging out — a decade plus is a long time for a startup. Most have been bought by bigger companies, likely attracted by the shiny thing but then quickly dismayed by the bottom line. Back then, a cloud server was cheaper to build than a local hub, but servers continue to cost money, and once a company decides to shut down a product, reasons to keep paying fade rapidly.
Definitely for me a consideration when buying products, especially smart home products, is whether they can keep working even after the company shuts down.
Also, the same thoughts have crossed my mind when I was rebuilding Little Memory to 2.0. If a bus hit me today, would the app still keep working without me? I don’t want folks getting stranded without me and losing access to their diaries. For me, it’s a matter of respecting the user and their data.
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Meta’s New A.I. Agent For Losers (via):
What do you mean you had your robot shop for collectible ceramics? Is there any other part of collecting ceramics as a hobby besides shopping for them? Is your hobby now “having bowls?” Hi, I’m Eli Tan, writer for the New York Times. In my leisure time I enjoy owning dishes.
As a flashlight nerd (aka collector), this spoke to me. Yeah, I own (a lot of) flashlights, but, yeah, shopping for, thinking about buying, or even impulse buying is most of the fun of collecting.
And this bit:
This is my life. These are the things that life consists of. There’s my work, there’s my hobbies, there’s my health, my future. All the big meaningful elements of life are just a collection of little tasks that you have to do one at a time.
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The power of love.
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September 23, 2026Colors in Cantonese
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September 22, 2026Little Memory 2.0: Moving 15 years of memories off my servers
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I, too, have been concerned about the vertical tab bar on the iPhone Duo not having space for labels. But looks like tap and hold reveals them. Nice solution.
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September 15, 2026Action Runner iOS Architecture
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September 14, 2026TLF (Taschenlampen Forum) is shutting down
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September 14, 2026Shopify is moving from React Native to native Swift/Kotlin
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September 12, 2026First use of Frontier Model
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September 12, 2026Anime Repertoire 2003
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Cory Doctorow:
If you showed up at Defcon and gave talk about how your autonomous malware did something unexpected and damaged someone else’s computers, the first question from the audience would be “Why are you so shit at making secure sandboxes?” It wouldn’t be “How are you so awesome at making hacking tools?”
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September 11, 2026Pry it from my warm live feet
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John Gruber did a recent “1yr later” (or maybe a “where are they now”?) review of the iPhone Air and iPhone 17 Pro. I’ve gotta chime in with my experience with the 17 Pro. I’ve been on the iPhone Upgrade Program for years, and every year, after around the 1st week, I start noticing scratches build up on my screen. This time, that didn’t happen. And now, nearly 1yr into using the same phone: still no scratches. For me, this has been the most noticeable and worthwhile difference upgrading from the 16 Pro.
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September 6, 2026Rewarding the user for wondering and trying
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September 6, 2026マグロいかがでございますか
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September 4, 2026Tab dump
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September 4, 2026Ready Time 3.6: Routines and App Clips
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When I hear about agents using public forums to help them save memories and coordinate information: I think of the movie Memento where he tattoos himself as reminders of important things.
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September 3, 2026Vacation with kids
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Interesting. An engineering manager starts to build software again: it’s more fun than managing people. Everyone at the company is trying out new ideas constantly. It’s Lord of the Flies.
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If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands!
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What Are All Your Photos For? For many, it’s for posting on social media. For others it’s to look back and be reminded of and remember old memories (especially as we get older). They are also, for some, keepsakes to share with children.
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Heard this question recently:
What’s your “no email” job?
Meaning: the job you would want to take where the job wouldn’t involve email. Their answer was: HVAC.
Mine would be: Falconry.
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August 27, 2026DEFCON 34 Recap
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Revisiting using Cursor for trying out more non-Claude agents, which I haven’t done too much of recently. I’ve generally been running Claude Code on my laptop, especially for iOS/Xcode projects, but doing a bit more with cloud agents with my web projects.
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August 25, 2026Thank you Dolly Person
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August 22, 2026Tomorrow's Just an Excuse Away
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August 20, 2026Is he a dot, or is he a speck?
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August 20, 2026Debugging Little Memory 2.0 Diary View Scrolling
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August 20, 2026The Sound of Sucking into the Cloud
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My DEFCON 34 badge.
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August 14, 2026iOS Dev Weekly Issue 763 is a game changer
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August 13, 2026Brushed metal with CSS
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August 12, 2026Communication Style with AI
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August 11, 2026Unauthorized WiFi after leaving DEFCON
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Oooh new Hanklight with built-in USB-C charger: D4KC (variant of D4K).
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David P. Reichart (via):
Just because artificial lawns are not as good as the real deal doesn’t mean they can’t be called artificial lawns.
And if a truck can struggle up a hill and a river can find its way to the sea, then Claude can reason its way through a machine learning problem.
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Checked out of the hotel for DEFCON 34. Quick highlights for now: got ham radio license (technical), played in the ham radio fox hunt, got a portable Meshtastic node, checked out First Friday in the Arts District. What a blast.
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August 5, 2026Musings
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The 10th annual World Dog Surfing Championships:
The dogs are scored on tricks, the size of the wave they catch, how long they can stay on the board and how much they seem to be enjoying it all.
So cool/cute! Also interesting is the format of the story, at least on mobile, where you swipe pages to view each snippet.
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Ted Lasso Season 4 just got released on Apple TV (formerly called Apple TV+). A week or so ago I restarted watching from Season 1, and it’s just so much goodness. I think I’m able to catch a lot more of the jokes this time too. Looking forward to catching up to the new season.
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DEFCON is right around the corner. Some things to pack: Flipper Zero, RFID-shielded wallet, UV light (Emisar D2), Baofeng UV-5R. Hmm, what else?
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July 31, 2026Session Ownership
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July 30, 2026Coffee at Sightglass
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July 26, 2026Been running my own personal AI
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July 25, 2026Poka-yoke
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July 25, 2026Day One wants you to chat with AI
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July 25, 2026Not just for the old folks
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July 24, 2026The sound of crickets in the summer
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July 24, 2026Never Have I Experienced Such Hobgoblins
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July 23, 20260xdead10cc
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July 9, 2026Gion, Jetavana, Yasaka
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July 9, 2026Namba Yasaka Shrine
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June 4, 2026Confusion is the sweat of learning
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June 3, 2026MUJI Car 1000
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June 2, 2026The J-Firm
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June 2, 2026Sucked into the Machine
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June 1, 2026Ready Time's on TinyLaunch
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June 1, 2026Old Man Wisdom
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May 27, 2026Commit to the Bit
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May 27, 2026Spring 2026 Closet Check-in
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May 21, 2026Ready Time 3.3: Travel Time
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May 16, 2026Japanese Chicken Curry
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April 28, 2026Next Chapter of Little Memory
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April 28, 2026Ready Time 3.2: Shared Plans and Daily Repeating Plans
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April 28, 2026Internet Radio Dial
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April 27, 2026Flash Finder
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April 21, 2026Tron-pilled
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April 21, 2026The Sacred and Exhausting Rotation of "Again"
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April 20, 2026Technology is not enough
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April 20, 2026NERV app
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April 20, 2026Ketchup, Mustard, BBQ Sauce, what else
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April 17, 2026A Netflix concern, not a user concern
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April 16, 2026My Precious
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April 15, 2026Moving along on Ready Time relaunch
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April 14, 20263AM: Bring the Car Seat
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April 14, 2026It's like gonna have like this tab
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April 13, 2026Book of Good Times
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April 9, 2026Can we see Iran's Hormuz tolls on-chain?
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April 7, 2026The Shed vs the Skyscraper
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April 7, 2026Ready Time
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April 7, 2026Seafoam Green
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April 5, 2026Design in Mega Man X
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April 2, 2026The Weather Channel: RetroCast
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March 30, 2026Getting Ready for Ready Time
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March 27, 2026Catching up on Anduril 2 Manual Updates
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March 21, 2026Uncomfortable Design
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Brent Simmons:
Computer programming is really about communication: communicating with the machine, yes, of course — but if you’re not just coding but making an app, as I am, it’s mostly about designing the app so that it communicates with the user. So that it’s easy to understand and fun to use.
Coding’s the easy part — making a useful app that people like is the challenge and is such a reward when it works. Like any other popular art form, it’s about connecting with humans.
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March 13, 2026What I'm seeing with AI in March 2026
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February 12, 2026Renewable Energy
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February 10, 2026You're welcome, u/Prbly-LostWandering!