Lately on the blog: My ultimate keyboard-driven Mac utility list
The big news in the Hicks-Juavinett household is that Ashley just started a newsletter 🥰 🥰 🥰
of note that choosing ghost was not a small choice, because every SINGLE popular science author in her network insisted she HAD to be on substack, so she is starting with a serious penalty in not benefitting from her large existing network all on substack who would have promoted this newsletter across their many science reader audiences. I hope we can get it to flourish 🫶
https://graymatter.ghost.io/the-limitations-of-neuroscience/
Great post from Michael Ian Black on being Jewish in 2026.
Who should I be following in the Fediverse? Twitter just makes me sad, and I need a new place to find people doing interesting things.
I'm interested in software development in any programming language, game development, web development, UI, design, and home lab stuff. I'm not interested in AI.
Drop your recommendations below!
Computers and computer systems are build up from deterministic, comprehensible, building blocks. Their operations and behaviors can be understood and reasoned about. I relate my personal beliefs and mindset on this point, and explore some manifestations and ramifications of this philosophy.

I went down a deep rabbit hole building a dumb feature into Marked for making books out of blogs. It was a crazy idea I woke up with yesterday and wanted to play with. I got the basic idea working using MarsEdit AppleScript and SwiftUI, but then I started running into bugs that sucked up hours. I eventually ripped it all out and put it into a separate little app that I'll come back around to when I'm not trying to get 2 apps published. But eventually “MarsBook” might be a thing that will output an entire blog in chronological order as a PDF or EPUB.
To be clear, @danielpunkass is only affiliated with this project by virtue of developing the excellent MarsEdit. Might eventually consider making it work directly with WordPress REST API, but I definitely did not want to get into that this morning.
If you've never watched a Harry Mack video, start with this recent one, "Guerrilla Bars 71." He's such a brilliant freestyle rapper, with so much positivity, effortless wordplay, and killer rhymes. It's jaw-dropping.