So Many Questions, Still So Few Answers

Report: Apple Plans to Make On-Device AI a Key WWDC Focus:

The arrangement represents a noticeable departure from Apple’s original Apple Intelligence announcement, in which the company said all cloud-bound queries would be handled exclusively by its own Private Cloud Compute infrastructure running on Apple silicon. Apple is likely to retain the Private Cloud Compute branding despite the change, people familiar with the partnership told The Information.

There is much left unanswered in this article. How much of Private Cloud Compute is in use today and for what purpose? How much of this capacity will be running the new Apple Intelligence? Will Apple expand PCC into Google’s datacenters? If so, what is Apple’s own infrastructure going to serve? And how much of an improvement can we expect to run local models on our devices compared to the original Apple Intelligence model?

Daydreaming All The Time

While moving my tasks out of Things 3, I noticed that many possible projects or tasks were really just daydreams. Migration is an ideal opportunity to reevaluate everything with a fresh perspective. Then, the new digital home will host a new set of daydreaming projects and tasks that I’ll revisit with a smile and kill right off the bat.

Switching DB Backend Easily

After largely completing the transition from Things.app to a version built with vibe coding on Next.js and hosted on Vercel, I decided to switch from Airtable to a Postgres backend. The free-tier on Airtable only allows 1000 public API calls, which wasn’t sufficient. To avoid hitting this cap constantly, I, with the help of Codex, migrated to a Postgres database called Neon, available through Vercel’s marketplace. I already use Neon for my bookmarking web app, so the change was quite smooth. I didn’t need to move any data since I am still in the late development phase. Now returning to other fine-tuning tasks.

Making Progress

Well, well, well, it seems to be happening much quicker than originally thought. I’m about 70% done with this already! I still like Claude Code more, but Codex is more efficient at testing the UI in its browser than Claude Code. And the in-browser cursor, which is 100% independant than the Mac cursor, is super cool to see in action.

WordPress 7 shipped with new AI features, where are they hiding?:

The latest version of WordPress (WP), seven, which shipped a few days ago, comes with, according to the accompanying release notes/marketing copy, a number of AI features.

I’m yet to see even one of these, despite installing version seven last week now. The only noticeable difference I can discern — to date — is a change in some of the hyperlink colours on the dashboard.

Not that I’m looking forward to it, but Ghost still doesn’t have any AI-related features.

Burning Tokens

So far so good with OpenAI Codex. I prefer Claude Code’s look and feel, but Codex seems more like something Microsoft would build: plain, without soul. My data model is completed and implemented in AirTable. The basic web UI is running, but is lacking many basic operations like create, update, and delete for tasks, projects, etc. It took me less than two hours to deplete my token allotment. It’s a slower rate than with Claude Code… but still, it’s quickly gone.

Other Browsers Keep Disappointing Me

From time to time, I open a different browser to see if I’m missing anything. I tried the Dia Browser again, but I still don’t quite like it. I feel unsure about it. Its design doesn’t appeal to me, and it seems slower than the ARC Browser. My default choice remains Apple Safari. Oh, I want to like the Zen browser, but I don’t like it to be based on Firefox.