{ "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1", "title": "Numeric Citizen Blog", "icon": "https://cdn.micro.blog/numericcitizen/avatar.jpg", "home_page_url": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/", "feed_url": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/feed.json", "items": [ { "id": "http://numericcitizen.micro.blog/2026/04/14/hacker-newss-article-ransomware-is.html", "content_html": "

Hacker News’s article “Ransomware Is Growing Three Times Faster Than the Spending Meant to Stop It”:

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Ransomware leak-site claims surged 30.7% year-over-year in 2025 to reach 7,760 incidents, significantly outpacing the 10.1% growth in worldwide security spending ($213 billion), indicating a widening gap between observable threat volume and security investment.

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The article doesn’t say what is causing this surge, and if AI has anything to do with it. I would bet that AI might be helping hacker groups.

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Even if I use an automation (via n8n) for my Micro.blog timeline summarization, I still come here to read my timeline, although less frequently than before. It’s a good way to gauge how well or poorly LLM can be at summarizing such content. ☝🏻

\n", "date_published": "2026-04-13T12:24:08-04:00", "url": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/04/13/even-if-i-use-an.html", "tags": ["Newsletter","Automation \u0026 AI"] }, { "id": "http://numericcitizen.micro.blog/2026/04/13/i-just-updated-my-blog.html", "content_html": "

I just updated my blog at meta.numericcitizen.me with my new design. The default view on the site is now dark mode, which includes a smooth visual animation.

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Quoting Bryan Cantrill — Simon Willison

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Work costs nothing to an LLM, and LLMs do not feel a need to optimize for their own (or anyone’s) future time, and will happily dump more and more onto a layercake of garbage.

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Until recently, thanks to rising chip prices, human developers were too lazy to optimize their software stacks, leading to bloated software requiring much more memory than necessary to run. Now there is an incentive to rethink how they allocate development time, but it will probably be delegated to LLMs… we’re doomed.

\n", "date_published": "2026-04-13T07:19:06-04:00", "url": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/04/13/quoting-bryan-cantrill-simon-willison.html", "tags": ["Newsletter","Automation \u0026 AI"] }, { "id": "http://numericcitizen.micro.blog/2026/04/13/with-the-blog-redesign-i.html", "content_html": "

With the blog redesign, I decided to remove the /archive page. I add an issue with Micro.blog / Hugo handling of long list of blog posts. Because I couldn’t figure out how to fix it (nor Claude AI apparently), it was removed. I bet that nobody really look into this page anyway1.

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    Except AI bots. ↩︎

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M.G. Siegler about Apple’s AI competitiveness in Serious About Computing? You Should Build Your Own AI. — Spyglass

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While they may look smart at some point for not pouring hundreds of billions into CapEx spend, that could come back to bite them in ways that are more tangential. Including, culturally, if the DNA of the company is never rewired to operate in the Age of AI. “People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware,” Alan Kay famously declared in 1982. What if the modern day version is something like: “People who are really serious about computing should make their own AI”?

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I think we are still in the early days of generative AI. Siri’s failures apart, generative AI being so different than anything Apple did with Siri in the past, they can (and should) outsource their AI infrastructure. Eventually, they might bring it in, just like they did for Qualcomm modems, for example.

\n", "date_published": "2026-04-12T20:47:36-04:00", "url": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/04/12/mg-siegler-about-apples-ai.html", "tags": ["Newsletter","Automation \u0026 AI"] }, { "id": "http://numericcitizen.micro.blog/2026/04/12/forcing-microblog-to-rebuild-the.html", "content_html": "

Forcing Micro.blog to rebuild the entire website to enable a design change is so slow; close to 30 minutes each time. 😳 One of the challenges is that not all design changes require a full rebuild; some do, some don’t, and I don’t always know in advance which ones do. Claude AI is not very good at predicting this either.

\n", "date_published": "2026-04-12T19:33:23-04:00", "url": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/04/12/forcing-microblog-to-rebuild-the.html", "tags": ["Newsletter","Automation \u0026 AI"] }, { "id": "http://numericcitizen.micro.blog/2026/04/12/probably-one-of-the-coolest.html", "content_html": "

Probably one of the coolest images coming from the Artemis II mission. So cool.

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Since returning from vacation yesterday, I’ve been using Claude Code for different things, and yes, I can confirm that the credit consumption rate is much higher than it was a few weeks ago. 😳

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This might be obvious for many bloggers, but these questions popped up in my mind this morning when working to enable the new visual design of my blog.

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What is a blog’s home? Or is it defined? Should it be the geographical region where the blog is hosted? Or should it be the author’s regional location? Or should the author sign with his or her name followed by both, like “Numeric Citizen from Montréal, Canada, hosted on a server somewhere in the US”? And where this signature should go? At the end of each post? Or at the end of the blog’s main page?

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I’m still pondering my options.

\n", "date_published": "2026-04-12T13:53:00-04:00", "url": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/04/12/trying-to-define-what-is.html", "tags": ["Blogging","Longer posts","Newsletter"] }, { "id": "http://numericcitizen.micro.blog/2026/04/12/announcing-a-new-blog-design.html", "title": "Announcing a New Blog Design", "content_html": "

Finally, after so many years on Micro.blog, I’m excited to announce that this blog is now using my custom-built visual theme, built entirely with Claude AI, Claude Code, and a lot of my spare time. Bye-bye third-party visual plugin1! This marks a major milestone for me, as I have always wanted to have my own design for this blog2.

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    I was using the excellent Cards Theme. ↩︎

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    I’m still working out some issues that I didn’t have on my test blog before, but only occur on my production site. ↩︎

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This year is an iPhone upgrade year for me; coming from a still-powerful iPhone 15 Pro Max. First time since my current iPhone still feels snappy for 99% of my use. Yet, I’ll move ahead with the upgrade because one of my expectations I have is that the new Siri will be more demanding.

\n", "date_published": "2026-04-11T10:38:19-04:00", "url": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/04/11/this-year-is-an-iphone.html", "tags": ["Misc","Newsletter"] }, { "id": "http://numericcitizen.micro.blog/2026/04/10/i-wonder-what-would-happen.html", "content_html": "

I wonder what would happen if I tried ChatGPT Codex on one of my code base built with Claude Code. Could this bring some unforeseen areas of improvement? Could this be equivalent to human code review?

\n", "date_published": "2026-04-10T10:43:45-04:00", "url": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/04/10/i-wonder-what-would-happen.html", "tags": ["Newsletter","Automation \u0026 AI"] }, { "id": "http://numericcitizen.micro.blog/2026/04/09/im-currently-on-vacation-but.html", "content_html": "

I’m currently on vacation but I keep an eye on the tech news and commentary landscape. With all the brouhaha surrounding Claude Code spotty performance lately, I’m starting to be wary of resuming my work on some of my projects when I get back home. 😟

\n", "date_published": "2026-04-09T11:49:33-04:00", "url": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/04/09/im-currently-on-vacation-but.html", "tags": ["Newsletter","Automation \u0026 AI"] }, { "id": "http://numericcitizen.micro.blog/2026/04/06/im-taking-a-quick-oneweek.html", "content_html": "

I’m taking a quick one-week vacation, hence my silence. 🤫

\n", "date_published": "2026-04-06T10:13:26-04:00", "url": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/04/06/im-taking-a-quick-oneweek.html", "tags": ["Misc","Newsletter"] }, { "id": "http://numericcitizen.micro.blog/2026/04/02/iphone-pro-reportedly-wont-come.html", "content_html": "

iPhone 18 Pro Reportedly Won’t Come in Black — MacRumors

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Apple offers the iPhone 17 Pro and ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ Max in just three colors – Silver, Cosmic Orange, and Deep Blue – but notably there’s no black option. Last year was the first time Apple’s high-end iPhones have not been available with a black or dark gray color option in any way, but those hoping for the return of black this year for the iPhone 18 Pro should look away now.

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My go-to choice is black, the only exception was for the iPhone 13 Pro which was in light blue (or whatever color they used to call it). If no black option for the 18 Pro Max, then my second choice goes to the deep red.

\n", "date_published": "2026-04-02T08:24:52-04:00", "url": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/04/02/iphone-pro-reportedly-wont-come.html", "tags": ["Apple \u0026 Tech","Newsletter"] }, { "id": "http://numericcitizen.micro.blog/2026/04/01/openai-against-the-world-apple.html", "content_html": "

OpenAI against the world:

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Apple was seen as a laggard in AI development, and in fairness, they clearly saw themselves that way and invested billions in trying to catch up to the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic, but they failed miserably. And yet, they seem like they’re going to be doing just fine. You need a computer to do all this vibe coding on. You need a phone to talk to an AI agent. Who makes the best computers and phones? Apple does.

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MP3 vs iPod playbook all over again? Or is it different this time? Not having to pay for all the necessary infrastructure to run AI might be beneficial for Apple’s future.

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It’s been a long time since I watched a rocket launch live from NASA. It was a great one 🚀. I didn’t know that two of the main engines are coming from previous space shuttles!! 😳

\n", "date_published": "2026-04-01T19:27:00-04:00", "url": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/04/01/its-been-a-long-time.html", "tags": ["Misc","Newsletter"] }, { "id": "http://numericcitizen.micro.blog/2026/04/01/im-part-of-apples-year.html", "content_html": "

I’m part of Apple’s 50-year history. Here are some documented proofs.

\n", "date_published": "2026-04-01T18:10:00-04:00", "url": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/04/01/im-part-of-apples-year.html", "tags": ["Apple \u0026 Tech","Newsletter"] }, { "id": "http://numericcitizen.micro.blog/2026/04/01/so-claude-code-source-code.html", "content_html": "

So, Claude Code source code has leaked, for real? 😳 Or is this a bad April Fool thing? Seems serious if true… how can they cope with this? Why did it leaked and how? It sounds like a disaster for the company.

\n", "date_published": "2026-04-01T12:53:52-04:00", "url": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/04/01/so-claude-code-source-code.html", "tags": ["Newsletter","Automation \u0026 AI"] }, { "id": "http://numericcitizen.micro.blog/2026/04/01/happy-th-anniversary-apple.html", "title": "Happy 50th Anniversary, Apple!", "content_html": "

For today’s Apple’s 50th anniversary, I didn’t write a special blog post. Maybe I should have. I kind of forgot about it, even though I wrote about it a few days ago. Anyway, a few years ago, I wrote about the root of my passion for Apple. I’m not sure this article aged well, though. Nonetheless, Apple and Steve Jobs played a major role in defining who I am today, that’s for sure.

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Slash AI:

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Personally, I couldn’t care less what you write on your /ai page. The same way I couldn’t care less if you use em-dashed. Words are cheap, easy to write, and they mean less and less. But your history, all the baggage you carry with you, all you have written and said, that is harder to fake, building it is time-consuming, but destroying it takes a second. If you start posting AI slop, my trust in you is gone in an instant, and no matter how you’ll try to justify it, that trust will not come back.

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I can understand Manuel’s disdain of anything related to AI, but I feel his stance is a little too much “binary”; all or nothing. There must be a middle ground, isn’t it?

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Business Insider Profiles Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s ‘CEO of Applications’:

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People stay on Facebook and Instagram even as the experiences worsen because everyone they know is also still on those apps. There’s no network effect like that for ChatGPT. Claude is already rising to near-equal status in popularity, and Gemini isn’t far behind, and Simo hasn’t even started enshittifying ChatGPT yet. People will just switch.

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I don’t use my Facebook account, Messenger, yes, because of others who refuse to let go and don’t understand alternatives. I already switched to Claude. I couldn’t be happier. I didn’t have to wait for the obvious to come.

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iOS 27 might give iPhone’s keyboard a new autocorrect feature — 9to5Mac

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Apple has explored an updated system keyboard that expands autocorrect by offering alternative words, using an approach that’s similar to tools like Grammarly.

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If they can fix Autocorrect once and for all, I’m all in.

\n", "date_published": "2026-03-31T13:28:58-04:00", "url": "https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2026/03/31/ios-might-give-iphones-keyboard.html", "tags": ["Apple \u0026 Tech"] }, { "id": "http://numericcitizen.micro.blog/2026/03/30/apple-maps-is-getting-ads.html", "content_html": "

Apple Maps Is Getting Ads. It’s Apple’s Riskiest Bet Yet — I might like Apple ads, after all. #not

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