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Early this morning, using Craft Agents, I created a new skill that enables me to save my Micro.blog Bookmarks into a Craft collection. The agent figured out the Micro.blog API, the new collection schema and how to move things around. So cool. Any questions?
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It’s funny how my interactions with my colleages is evolving since I’ve been using AI. My requests to them are looking more and more like prompts: I give them a context, state my needs and expectations and provide the expected end results, in that order. All the time. 🫣
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When I Retire...
One of my nieces’ friends works in IT and recently contacted me for advice about his career in this field. This isn’t the first time I’ve received this kind of request. Over the past year, two other colleagues have also asked me for similar career advice. I have to admit, I really enjoy it. I like listening to the concerns of the younger generation and, to the best of my knowledge, advising them to help them flourish even more. Continue reading →
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9to5Mac’s article “Google launches Snapseed camera for iPhone with pro manual controls, retro film”:
Snapseed, a photo editing app by Google, has launched a new camera feature for iOS with manual adjustments, professional mode, and various film emulation styles. The updated app allows users to customize their photos with real-time filters and provides a full editing stack that enables post-capture modifications. The app is free and available in the App Store, with plans to update the Android version in the future.
I never quite understood why Google is making such an app. It’s great but… why?
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9to5Mac’s article “Another AirPods Pro 3 model is coming, with one rumored upgrade”:
Apple is rumored to be developing a new, higher-end version of AirPods Pro 3 featuring infrared (IR) cameras to enhance AI capabilities and potentially support visual intelligence and hand gestures. This upcoming model is expected to be similar to the current AirPods Pro 3 but will likely come at a higher price point. The IR cameras are anticipated to help users better understand and interact with their external environment.
Oh, as an AirPods Pro 2 owner, I might want to hold up my next purchase. I’m just curious about the appeal of this upgrade.
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At this point, I have to admit, the only reason I’m keeping ChatGPT is its image-generation and analysis capabilities.
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New MacBook with ‘fun colors’ sounds like the best Mac for most people — 9to5Mac
It’s pretty simple: if you can get a MacBook that’s the most affordable by far, comes in fun colors, and will do everything you want—why would you choose anything else?
I’m warming up to this. Could be a boon to my travel gears.
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How many new RSS readers can we get in a week? I’m counting two so far. Might be a third one coming soon? Cc @manton
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Using Claude Code, I added an OPML export feature to my RSS Flow webpage so that I could move my feeds into Current so that I could compare the reading experience of a RSS river… let’s see.
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I bought Current. I’m not sure it’s for me. It doesn’t support Inoreader. It might be in a future version. Information density is too low. I like some of its design decisions. It seems that some useful features will come the more I use the app. I’ll see.
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We're Making a Big Mistake
I believe that IT workers who are also passionate about gen AI are making a major misjudgment. We wrongly assume that the advances we observe in our field, such as the autonomous or semi-autonomous development of applications, also translate to sectors like medicine or law. This is a false generalization. The field of IT heavily relies on strict formalism: the raw material consumed by LLMs. In the legal field, for example, this is not the case: it is much more complex. Continue reading →
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Matt Shumer writes in “Something Big is Happening”:
The AI labs made a deliberate choice. They focused on making AI great at writing code first… because building AI requires a lot of code. If AI can write that code, it can help build the next version of itself. A smarter version, which writes better code, which builds an even smarter version. Making AI great at coding was the strategy that unlocks everything else. That’s why they did it first.
Clever. Exciting. But scary, too.
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I Am the Great Glassholio! — Spyglass
Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses, which would let wearers identify people and get information about them via an AI assistant.
Meta being meta. Creepy.
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If Apple does a “Snow Leopard”- style release with iOS 27 (and hopefully macOS 27), then I’m all in. Software quality has taken a nosedive in recent years, and it’s no longer aligned with Apple’s “It just works”. Apple needs to do something about this. I cannot count how many times people have come to me and said, “Apple’s hardware is top-notch, but the software is such crap.”
I bet Apple will use some level of AI to inspect code and apply AI-based suggestions and recommendations.
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The Rise of Cognitive Dept
Margaret-Anne Storey introduces “cognitive debt” as a concept that may be more threatening than technical debt in AI-augmented development. Unlike technical debt (which lives in code), cognitive debt is the erosion of shared understanding that resides in developers’ minds. Drawing on Peter Naur’s concept of a program as a “theory” distributed across teams, the article argues that as AI and agentic tools push for development velocity, teams risk losing their collective understanding of why systems work the way they do. Continue reading →
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When I was a teenager, programming languages like LOGO made computers and programming very accessible. In today’s world, I would argue that, to some degree, vibe coding does the same: it makes computer programming more accessible in a much more complex digital landscape.
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Do we know if Apple upgraded the local Apple Intelligence model since its initial release? In case they didn’t, it’s no wonder why Apple is so far behind as others are releasing new models at a rapid pace, even those destined at being run locally.
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I’m still tweaking my RSS Flow web app using Claude Code. It’s addictive and fun. It’s becoming the exact RSS reader I always wanted.
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In what appears to be a mistake, Apple is moving away from the iWork branding for its productivity apps (Pages, Numbers, and Keynote) by removing the dedicated iWork webpage and redirecting it to a new “apps” page featuring Creator Studio. The change suggests a shift in how Apple markets these apps, with a new focus on the Creator Studio subscription service, which offers premium features and additional creative tools for $12.99 per month.
Is Apple Phasing Out the iWork Brand? — MacRumors
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I would pay to have a widget that shows an up-to-date view of Claude’s credit usage.
