BEWARE SOFTWARE BRAIN
Software brain is changing the world, but most people still aren’t buying.
Tim Cook’s Impeccable Timing
Tim Cook had an extraordinary run — and impeccable timing, both in terms of when he became CEO, and when he is stepping down.
The Cook Doctrine:
We believe that we’re on the face of the Earth to make great products, and that’s not changing.
We’re constantly focusing on innovating.
We believe in the simple, not the complex.
We believe that we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products we make, and participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution.
We believe in saying no to thousands of projects so that we can really focus on the few that are truly important and meaningful to us.
We believe in deep collaboration and cross-pollination of our groups, which allow us to innovate in a way that others cannot.
And frankly, we don’t settle for anything less than excellence in every group in the company, and we have the self-honesty to admit when we’re wrong and the courage to change.
A Mac Studio for Local AI — 6 Months Later
The Mac Studio M3 with 512GB of memory is an absurd amount of computer.
Laws of Software Engineering
A collection of principles and patterns that shape software systems, teams, and decisions.
Qwen Studio
Qwen Studio offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web s
Introducing Claude Opus 4.7
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Introducing routines in Claude Code | Claude
Define repeatable routines that work your backlog, review your PRs, and respond to events in the cloud.
Memories of Steve
Originally published elsewhere on Thursday, April 10, 2014. I have no plans to watch that new movie about Steve Jobs. As I have no plans to
Just a wonderful post
pi.dev
A terminal-based coding agent
Introducing EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
Today we are launching the beta of EmDash, a full-stack serverless JavaScript CMS built on Astro 6.0. It combines the features of a traditio
Code Is Cheap Now, And That Changes Everything | Pere Villega
AI coding agents have made code production nearly free. Drawing on insights from Kent Beck, Paul Ford, and Simon Willison, this post argues
This is fun. I think this demonstrates that on device models have definitely reached an inflection point where they cannot be ignored anymore as real alternatives to the cloud run models.
Microsoft Hasn’t Had a Coherent GUI Strategy Since Petzold
A few years ago I was in a meeting with developers and someone asked a simple question: “What’s the right framework for a new Windows deskto
Microsofts story contrasts sharply with Apple’s tight and coherent push for Swift and SwiftUI on all platform over the last 7 years.
Lunar Flyby - NASA
Breathtaking
GitHub - Arthur-Ficial/apfel: Apple Intelligence from the command line. On-device LLM via FoundationModels framework. No API keys, no cloud,
Apple Intelligence from the command line. On-device LLM via FoundationModels framework. No API keys, no cloud, no dependencies. - Arthur-Fic
Super cool package that allows running the On-device LLMs available from Apple Intelligence.
macai - Your AI Assistant for macOS
A powerful, native AI assistant for macOS. Chat with efficient models directly from your desktop.
Claude Code Unpacked
What actually happens when you type a message into Claude Code? The agent loop, 50+ tools, multi-agent orchestration, and unreleased feature
Anatomy of the .claude/ Folder
A complete guide to CLAUDE.md, custom commands, skills, agents, and permissions, and how to set them up properly.
CLAUDE.md is your highest-leverage file. Get that right first. Everything else is optimization.
Start small, refine as you go, and treat it like any other piece of infrastructure in your project: something that pays dividends every day once it’s set up properly.
Answer Engine Optimization
Why optimizing for answer engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews matters — and the practical changes I made to my site to
Interesting article about SEO in the age of agentic search.
cook — workflow loops for Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode
cook — workflow loops for Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode
Grief and the AI Split
TL;DR: AI-assisted coding is revealing a split among developers that was always there but invisible when we all worked the same way. I've fe
I relate with this post a lot. For me programming has always been a means to an end. I’ve been always interested in building and shipping products, so for me AI has been a great too to accomplish just that.
I have talked to other developers though, to whom the act of writing code has always been their main driver. For them, the arrival of AI has been a huge driver of anxiety and grief over loosing the art of writing and crafting code.
Why Do They Want To Get Rid of Software Engineers?
The push to replace software engineers isn't always a technical prediction. Sometimes it's a reaction to the leverage we hold.
If you’re an engineer, here’s the play
Use the tools. Don’t worship them. Don’t ignore them.
Let AI handle the stuff you shouldn’t be spending your life on:
- repetitive scaffolding
- “write the boring version of this”
- first drafts
- searching for the right API calls
- turning a concept into a starting point
Then do what engineers have always done:
- make it correct
- make it simple
- make it maintainable
- make it real
Because the magic isn’t “typing code.”
The magic is turning messy human intent into something a computer can execute—reliably—in the real world.
And that part still needs you.
YouBrokeProd - Incident Response Training for Engineers
Debug real production incidents - database outages, Kubernetes crashes, terraform disasters. Free to play. Build the on-call instincts that
Will Claude Code ruin our team?
AI coding is blurring the lines between engineers, PMs, and designers. In the short-term, it's going to cause havoc. What happens long-term?
For a long time now I have been frustrated with the state of vehicle maintenance apps on iOS. Every few months I would go searching for one that I could actually use to log oil changes and service visits for our family vehicles, and I would always walk away disappointed. Cluttered interfaces. Aggressive paywalls around features that should be free. Apps that looked, frankly, like they had not been touched since iOS 9.
What I wanted was simple.
I wanted a truly native iOS app — one that respected the platform, embraced the new Liquid Glass design, and took advantage of the integrations that make iOS feel like iOS. Widgets on the home screen. Siri shortcuts for when my hands are covered in grease. App Intents that plug into the rest of the system. Nothing exotic. Just an app that felt like it actually belonged on my phone and that was kept up to date with the latest and greatest features.
I never found it. So I built it.
GreaseNote is the app I wanted to use. It is a clean, native iOS app for tracking the service history and maintenance of your vehicles. You can log visits, keep an eye on mileage, and use widgets and App Intents to check on your vehicles without ever opening the app. It is designed for the way iPhones and iPads actually look and feel today, not five years ago.
After a long stretch of late nights and weekends, GreaseNote is finally available on the App Store for iPhone and iPad.
What is exciting to me about building on Apple’s platforms is how much they keep giving you to work with. This is a 1.0, but it is not the end of the road. As the platform grows, GreaseNote will grow with it.
If you have ever dug through a glovebox looking for an oil change receipt, or tried to remember when you last rotated your tires, I would love for you to give it a try.
Download GreaseNote on the App Store