May 12 · 2 min read · macOS shows the battery for some Bluetooth devices in some places, but it's inconsistent — AirPods sometimes appear in the menu bar, sometimes only in System Settings, and a third-party game controlle
Join discussionMay 12 · 12 min read · On May 11, 2026, the top story on Hacker News was an essay titled "Local AI needs to be the norm". 1,646 points. 643 comments. The fifth-ranked story the same day was a practitioner walkthrough — "Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory" — and...
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May 11 · 6 min read · Back to notes I built RightLayout because every keyboard-layout corrector I tried for macOS broke on names, code, and typos. It was a small bet: train a CoreML model from scratch, three layouts, on-device. It worked. Then the maintenance bill came du...
Join discussionMay 6 · 5 min read · Your build just failed. Not because of a syntax error — because the macOS security model silently blocked a system call your Docker container needed. You spend two hours debugging before remembering: macOS is not Linux. Three weeks ago, a thread on V...
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Apr 30 · 18 min read · Before We Start, What You'll Actually Get From This This is not a "look what AI can do" post. This is a documented, real-world setup guide written by a DevOps engineer who got tired of sending infrast
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Apr 29 · 12 min read · A look at how the macOS pasteboard, Universal Clipboard, and popular third-party clipboard managers actually store your copies in 2026 — what is logged, what crosses the network, and a five-step check
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Apr 29 · 3 min read · My AI assistant runs on a remote server. My Apple Mail, Calendar, and Messages live on my Mac. Getting them to talk to each other took an MCP server, some AppleScript, and an SSH reverse tunnel — and it works surprisingly well. The Problem I run Open...
Join discussionApr 24 · 2 min read · I got tired of AI assistants that forget everything the moment a session ends. So I built one that doesn't. It runs 24/7 on my Mac, has access to my files, GitHub, iMessage, email, and calendar. It knows who I am, what I'm working on, and what I said...
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