Greg Pierce

@agiletortoise
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I turn inputs into outputs. Make Drafts (indieapps.space/@drafts), and a few other things (https://agiletortoise.com) (he/him)

Texas, USA

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This has been a week of support tickets from people with weird OS and app versions installed. How do you even end up on macOS 14.0 in this day and age? No, not 14.8.5 or anything-literally 14.0
I’m one arm down thanks to shoulder surgery, and having to dictate a lot. I really don’t care for talking to my computer.

I’ve been feeling like MCP is a lot like x-callback-url. Kind of a janky, pragmatic solution to a problem that optimized for opportunities and constraints available at a particular moment.

Maybe not built to last, but super useful.

Seeing all these people setup Mac minis to run AI agents, and having flashbacks to the 90s - when if you wanted to run a Mac as a headless server, you had to put a dummy jack in the monitor port to make it think it had a monitor attached to be able to remote into it (usually with Timbuktu Pro), and use an ADB monitoring device like Rebound! to reboot it when (not if) it crashed.

Shout out to the fellow WebSTAR survivors.

The Drafts MCP server project has been extended to also include a `drafts` command-line interface option to provide terminal commands that offer the same abilities to create, update, and query your Drafts Library as the MCP server.

Details: https://forums.getdrafts.com/t/drafts-mcp-command-line-interface/16602

Drafts MCP + Command Line Interface

I updated the Drafts MCP Server project to include a command-line interface that wraps the same functionality provided by the MCP. Once installed and linked (see instructions in README, you will have a new drafts terminal command that can update, create, query drafts just like the MCP. Here’s the output of drafts help describing the supported commands: Usage: drafts [options] [command] CLI for interacting with the macOS Drafts app Options: -V, --version output the version num...

Drafts Community
When your son is running a screen printing business out of your garage and got jobs to supply event shirts for roughly half the undergrads at his alma mater.

In their continued hostility toward people who like to manually install app updates, iOS 26.4 moved “Updates” another level deep in the App Store app > Account page.

Which, whatever, that Account page was getting crowded…but, they could at least bother to automatically refresh the update list, not make you pull to refresh, if you have bothered to navigate all the way there.

you know there is simple system to control which Waffle House you are teleported to…
Waiting on Wednesday.
Is Tubi the best streaming service? Depends on the moment, I guess…