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Yesterday night I installed and configured ClawdBot on my M4 Mac mini sitting on my home office desk. Now, I’m remote-controlling it with Discord, preferring it over Telegram or iMessage because Discord support in ClawdBot felt more mature. I can ask simple things and get simple answer. It’s exciting. Yet, it was more complicated than I originally thought. ClawdBot is a nerdy thing for really nerd people. More comments about ClawdBot can be found on MacStories.
I see a lot of potential for learning and testing new things with ClawdBot. I’ll probably dedicate a lot of my spare time to it in the coming months. But for now, because I’m very close to leaving for a vacation trip to Egypt, I’ll put that aside for a few weeks.
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Open source vs. open platforms — Manton Reece
Open source gives power to developers. An open platform gives power to everyone. The web needs business models that can sustain both.
Well balanced point of view, something we see less and less often these days.
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Yesterday, I suscribed to Edovia’s Screens so that I could remote control my Mac mini upstair to configure ClawdBot where it is running. Like many other apps, Screens now comes with Liquid Glass support and it’s a mixed bag. Plus, this thing is a battery drain powerhouse! 🫣 I’ve been using Screens 3 a long time ago when we couldn’t remote control into other Macs via FaceTime. I’m happy to see it still around, especially that I know the developer behind it.
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At this rate, I wonder if I could create a custom-build, highly feature-focused Inoreader replacement using Claude Code. My experience so far with RSS Flow seems to confirm that I could, piece-by-piece.
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I’m putting the final touches on a few of my web apps before going on a two-week vacation. One nice thing is that my RSS Flow app can call my Microblog Poster app to quickly create a link post from a text selection in RSS Flow.
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I’m not sure it was a good idea to put my GitHub repos inside iCloud Drive Documents folder. Some of my projects have more than 50K files inside of them, thanks to dependancies. The fileproviderd process consumes quite a lot of CPU cycles at times.
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I visited some friends this weekend and talked about Apple’s latest software updates. The general sentiment seems to be that they don’t like the updates (iOS 26 as well as the “new weird and fuzzy look”). Apple no longer delights users. 😔
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iPhone 18 Pro: Leaker Reveals Alleged Size of Smaller Dynamic Island — MacRumors
The account “Ice Universe” today claimed the Dynamic Island cutout on the iPhone 18 Pro models will be approximately 35% narrower than it is on the iPhone 17 Pro models. Specifically, they said it will have a width of around 13.5mm, down from around 20.7mm, and they shared the mockup image above to show what it would look like.
When Apple eliminates the camera and sensor cutout from the display, maybe next year or the year after, what will happen with the dynamic island? My take is that the dynamic island continues to show content popping up from the top of the screen, just like before.
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Intel puts consumer chip production on back burner as datacenters make a run on Xeons — The Register
If you notice PC prices creeping up over the next few months, the rising cost of memory won’t be the only reason, because on Thursday Intel said it is reallocating foundry capacity from client chips to meet surging demand for Xeon processors used in AI servers.
I wonder if Apple can manage to keep iPhone prices stable this fall with the release of the iPhone 18. They are certainly facing headwinds.
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I’m learning so much non-AI stuff by using AI — BirchTree
a year into my AI-accelerated coding adventure, I am far, far, far more knowledgeable about development than I was when I started.
My experience with n8n, Claude Code, Vercel and GitHub in recent weeks not only exposed me to obscure things in web app development, but to useful use cases of generative AI.
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So far this year, AI and Claude Code have completely changed my plans to learn writing extensive Apple Shortcuts. In fact, I would even argue that Apple has to find a way to enable a Claude Code like experience to write Apple Shortcuts (and why not AppleScript while at it).
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Something Is Going On
I’m still working on this, but I’m heading in the right direction. I realize that every blog post should have a title so that my RSS flow feed looks great. 👀 Continue reading →
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Asking Claude Code to suggest new features and improvements for my photo-sharing app is a lot of fun. Reviewing the list, I see several valid suggestions. However, as a “product manager”, I must decide what gets implemented and what does not. It’s kind of a power trip. You know “A thousand no for each yes”? 😎
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I'm rebuilding Flickr!
Well, maybe not, but here’s a description of my recently created photo-sharing webapp. And I have many more ideas to improve this. Photo Sharing WebApp - Feature Overview A modern, full-stack travel photo gallery built with Next.js 15, featuring intelligent photo management, interactive maps, and seamless cloud storage integration. 🌟 Highlights Zero-Database Architecture: Uses Vercel Blob for photos and Redis (via Vercel KV) for metadata Privacy Controls: Public, unlisted, and private album visibility options Interactive World Map: Displays photo locations extracted from EXIF GPS data Responsive Design: Optimized for all devices from mobile to desktop Admin Panel: Complete photo management without leaving the browser 🎨 Public Gallery Features Album Management Collapsible Albums: Each travel album can be expanded or collapsed independently Smart Defaults: Most recent album automatically expands on page load Album Metadata: Title, description, and date for each collection Privacy Levels: Public: Visible to everyone on the homepage Unlisted: Only accessible via direct link Private: Visible only to authenticated admins Photo Display Grid Layout Options: Three display modes to suit your preference Comfortable: Spacious 2-5 column grid with square thumbnails Compact: Dense 3-6 column grid for maximum photos per screen Masonry: Pinterest-style layout preserving original aspect ratios Layout Persistence: Grid preference saved in browser localStorage Newest First: Photos automatically sorted by upload date (newest at top-left) Rounded Thumbnails: Modern, elegant aesthetic with subtle shadows Hover Effects: Smooth scale and brightness animations on interaction Upload Date Display: Shows when each photo was added (in comfortable/masonry modes) Lightbox Viewer Full-Screen Experience: Distraction-free photo viewing Navigation Controls: Keyboard arrows (← →) for previous/next On-screen navigation buttons ESC key to close Photo Captions: Optional descriptions displayed below photos Smooth Transitions: Animated photo changes with loading states Mobile Optimized: Touch-friendly controls and responsive sizing Interactive Features World Map Integration: Leaflet-based interactive map Clustered markers for photos with GPS coordinates Click markers to view photos from that location Automatic bounds fitting to show all locations Album information in marker popups Random Featured Photo: Displays a random photo from all albums on homepage Changes on each page load Shows caption if available Mini Thumbnails: Collapsed albums show preview of first 5 photos Smooth animation on expand/collapse Photo count badge for albums with 6+ photos Content Syndication RSS Feed: Subscribe to new photo uploads at /feed. Continue reading →
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This weekend, I wanted to work on my next YouTube video, but I fell into this “photo-sharing website for my close family and friends” rabbit hole. It took most of the day to refine that I completely forgot about my video. 🤦🏻♂️
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Miniroll: what a great idea, and a well-designed one above all. Is it for me? I don’t know. I barely update my blogroll on Micro.blog. I’ll certainly keep an eye on the changelog to see where it’s going, and who knows…
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Looking at my Micro.blog timeline summary I see this bad interpretation of my words in a recent post about updating my Nikon camera firmware from 1.21 to 3.0. 🤷🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
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“Please, add a map of all the places I visited based on photo metadata”. “Add animation across the site to make it more dynamic, nothing too fancy”. “Please, add support for progressive web app and make sure to set the favicon with the provided image”. “Add support for swipe gestures (ledt and right) while glancing at individual image”. “Add a counter of how many images are stored in each album”.
Are you getting it?
This is simple web app development in 2026 built using Claude Code, Vercel, Next.js and Tailwind CSS. 🤯
