I understand that people, particularly my colleagues, are using ChatGPT much more than they are willing to admit, as evidenced by my conversations with a few of them this morning.

Thought on the morning: I think that apps like Tapestry and Reeder¹ are failing at one thing: a single timeline where content converge is enough. It isn’t. I came to realize that the world is complex and requires many angles of content consumption. Another problem is the diversity in feed velocity. If one feed takes over the timeline, it’s crash the whole thing. Until they add multi-timelines and find a way to moderate high-volume feeds, I’ll refrain from adding these apps into my daily routine.

Update #1: I stand corrected by one of the founders of the Iconfactory: you can have multiple timelines within the app and switch across them at will. As a backup of Tapestry on Kickstarter, I should have known better. Sorry about that one.

Great article from Adam Engst comparing Grammarly to Apple Intelligence Writing tools. It’s ironic that a third-party software brings better integration, less friction to the writing experience than Apple’s first-party offering.

I think that every single day that I’m working on a Mac I tell myself: “What a joy is this working with this”.

An upcoming version of Craft will incorporate an embedded DeepSeek R1 model to enable fully disconnected prompts answering. I’m not aware of other apps which include LLM. Beta is expected this week to a few early birds willing to test. I’m wondering how well will we be able to query our Craft content. It’s a potentially exciting twist.

I’d love to be there right now instead of enduring winter.

Today, I decided to let go a few writing ideas from my “idea pipeline.” I realized that sometimes, the words we choose not to write are just as significant as the ones we do.

I just realized that my face was on a few screenshots of Micro Social, an app currently being developed by Greg Morris. He shared an article today on his blog where he talks about the timeline feature. That’s cool. What is even cooler is that I decided to support him with a $1 a month subscription via his “Buy me a coffee” page. Can’t wait to test this myself.

We are solely responsible for the concentration of power in the hands of a few large tech companies. As individuals, we granted all that power to these megacorporations, which, at one point, were not yet large corporations. Thinking otherwise is ludicrous. Laws are a band-aid, we, the individual by our own choices must take back that power. We need to undo the last 15 years to some degree of equilibrium.

DeekSeek being open source, some people might wish that open source wasn’t a thing. But it is! 😂 #deepseek

DeekSeek or DeepSink? It might be ugly today on the markets. #deepseek

I had a conversation with a friend yesterday about our respective hobbies as content creators. He’s quite into YouTube, while I’m more into writing. At one point, we discussed the importance of being transparent with our employers about our hobbies. Since we share our content publicly, we should consider informing our HR department, at least according to him. I’m not entirely convinced about this, though. Nobody really knows about what I’m doing online with my blogs and YouTube channel. According to my friend, it might be a positive thing that my HR department is aware of what I’m doing because this puts me in a different class of employee, even my boss should know.

I’m still contemplating whether this is a requirement or not. After all, my hobbies don’t negatively affect my job, so why should I discuss my personal pursuits when I’m not working?

I love the Severance Apple TV+ series and I thought I understood most of it, but this episode of ScreenCrush tells me that I didn’t at all. I’m probably too old for this, but I love the vibe of Severance. I’ll probably have to rewatch season one. Oh well…

So I launched my personal website in French yesterday by writing a very short post on my Facebook account. Many people visited the blog for sure, and got one message via Messenger from a guy that I barely know. A few of my closest friends wrote to me, those I selected to a get a peek before the “official” launch. It’s fun to connect without all the usual noise.

On a different note, I spend 2 minutes looking at my Facebook timeline and boy this is junk. I don’t understand why people are still paying attention to Facebook. What a cancer.

Artists, stop marketing on social media. Just be yourself. Show your work. Share your ideas. Meet new people. Think in public. Have fun. The rest will follow.

I hate the idea of depending on social media for everything.

I understand those out there who didn’t vote for Trump decided not to pay attention to what is coming in the next four years, because it will be a pain to watch, but I think this is a mistake, a real big one. People not only should care, but they should continue voicing their outrage and concerns to send a clear message of “resistance”. All people’s voices are important. All the time.

Tim Cook might be the biggest public figure of Apple, but for this publicity stunt for Severance where he is visiting “Lumon Industries” headquarters, I wish it was Craig Federighi, instead. He would have done a better job.

Three reasons why I might not upgrade my iPhone 15 Pro Max this year, as expected.

1. If Donald Trump imposes tariffs on Canadian goods. I'm questioning my support of an American company like Apple.

2. Because of Tim Cook's contribution to Donald Trump inauguration which is in contradiction to many Apple values and Tim Cook's personal stance on some social issues.

3. If Apple makes a single change to their support for DEI program, following Trump's executive orders.

Micro.blog replies disabled, for now. It’s becoming too heavy.

One of my past colleague is now a system administrator of a few IBM Z Series mainframes¹. He is 58 and is the youngest of the team managing this stuff, the other team members are 62 and 72(!). It’s very hard to find people who knows about CICS, IDMS, Ctrl-M, all running on mainframes these days. I started my IT career on an IBM TN3270 connected to a mainframe running MVS. Good memories.