I added Bluesky posts to my blog! A fun way to learn more about ATProto and all the lexicon tools.

Tools I Love: Plannotator · Blog · Eli Perkins Make working with your clanker feel more like collaborating in Google Docs.

Plannotator slipped into my most commonly used tools one day and never left.

I picked up 3 of these IKEA Matter switches a month or so ago. They work great using the Apple TV and HomePod as the only routers!

Thank you! Send me any and all feedback you have on Particle. 🙇‍♂️

Particle's AI news app listens to podcasts for interesting clips so you you don't have to | TechCrunch AI news app Particle can now pull in key moments from podcasts, letting readers instantly play short, relevant clips alongside related stories.

Particle’s AI news app listens to podcasts for interesting clips so you you don’t have to

Particle's AI news app listens to podcasts for interesting clips so you you don't have to | TechCrunch AI news app Particle can now pull in key moments from podcasts, letting readers instantly play short, relevant clips alongside related stories.

Check out what we've been up to at @particle.news! Podcast clips on iOS, a new Android app, Particle Plus, and some fun technical deets 👀

When all you have is Markdown, everything looks like a nail-shaped agent skill

I felt spicy this morning, I guess.

How about I todon’t, LinkedIn?

and don't hallucinate

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Highly recommend this insightful post from @eliperkins.com reflecting on a year of using Kagi:

blog.eliperkins.com/one-year-wit...

Just implemented this on my blog too. Pretty easy to do since the posts are already in Markdown!

.rem checkboxes 4eva

Whether or not the Xcode agent is any good (I'm dubious), the fact Xcode itself is exposing first-party MCP tools is great news—trying to get Claude/Codex to do fucking anything right in iOS is agonizing. developer.apple.com/…

"Tools I Love: xcrun simctl io booted recordVideo"

A handy lil command line tool to visualize changes in my PRs that I use regularly.

Oooh, I'm curious what it is you enjoy most about Kagi News, if you don't mind sharing!

"One Year With Kagi"

It's been a year of using not-Google as my default search engine, and I don't think there's any turning back for me. Kagi rocks. 🤘

What 99% of the internet feels like these days

@jdan.me needs more communication notifications. how am I supposed to know who this is coming from?!

I don't think Gas Town is a project that could (or should) be used by anyone for Real Engineering™, but I think there's some interesting concepts to tease out over time.

Gas Town’s Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale On agent orchestration patterns, why design and critical thinking are the new bottlenecks, and whether we should let go of looking at code

Dang, this blog from @maggieappleton.com is REALLY good, and echos how I feel about Gas Town. Interesting concepts baked into a tool that has ridden the hype waves to tip of every Silicon Valley engineer's tongue.

This was a lot of fun to build, even if I wanted to tear my hair out every time I ran into some weird AVFoundation behavior. The transcript views use timing data along with a neat lil TextRenderer to create more immersive transcripts that let you follow along without needing to unmute.

Checkout podcasts on @particle.news! Read or listen along with podcast clips relevant otherwise stories, listen to full podcast episodes, see episode transcripts and learn more about the podcast hosts and guests.

Send feedback my way on how you like this feature and Particle in general too 🙇‍♂️

Scarry Times Third of four daughters, raised in a rural area. Finally cleaning out the filing cabinet and loading it to the cloud.

Spot on picture of Minneapolis rn daughternumberthree.blogspot.com/2026/01/scar...

"Gardening"

I've had this term knocking around in my head for some years, in relation to caring for a codebase. Finally put some words together in a blog to capture how I feel about it.

whoops! should be fixed now, lemme know if it doesn't work for ya.

Another day, another `mise use` that saved my butt. Fewer tools have entered my workflow as quickly as this one did some years back, and I rarely think about the fact that I'm using it 99% of the time.

As called on Miami Spanish radio:

another day, another wtf from Apple developer land: developer.apple.com/forums/threa...

Looking forward to the ground rule double system getting implemented where I get 2 likes for free if the post gets stuck under the fence