Apple's offering record trade-in values for your old iPhone. I'm almost tempted to upgrade my 17 Pro for the $785 of trade-in credit but I can't justify that just for an 18 Pro.

A decade of reading for knowledge made me forget how to read for fun. I thought I was a bad reader, but I just hadn't found what I liked yet.

Earlier this month I restarted blogging with the goal of posting twice per week. Now that I'm four weeks in, I thought it might be a good time to check in on my progress.

I don't typically write movie reviews, but after seeing Coyote vs. Acme I only had one real grievance I felt kept it from being an all-timer. (No spoilers ahead.)

After Acme products fail him one too many times in his dogged pursuit of the Roadrunner, Wile E. Coyote decides to hire a billboard lawyer to sue the Acme Corporation.

My family first got online with Prodigy dial-up when I was 8. We connected to it via a local phone number, and so I thought that meant the offices of our local phone operator down the street was where...

Setting big, lofty goals is one of my biggest personal failure modes. So this time, I set a small one.

I've used Claude quite a bit for both the upcoming new book and the next edition of Managing Humans. I wrote the entire book, but, as I've done for years, I've

Anthropic added a new support page today with details about how they would comply with Article 50 of the EU AI Act. As a result, models released in the EU will support machine-readable marking at launch, including text generated via APIs and through providers like AWS, Microsoft and Google.

Simon Willison recently reshared some advice he gave in an interview: My number one tip for blogging is to lower your standards! Aim to hit publish while you are still actively unhappy with what you h...

I've learned too late in my writing journey that wrangling your workflow will drain your capacity for writing and creating if you let it. I'm moving to Micro.blog because it has constraints I can't control.

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Blockbuster died because we stopped having to compromise. Some of the best movies I've ever rented were ones I settled for when what I wanted was out of stock.

Rust is adopting a new LLM policy that will allow contributors to use AI to analyze and review code, but not to create it. The rule specifically targets a growing bottleneck of AI-generated PRs that maintainers don't have the time or bandwidth to review.

Jon Udell dislikes the term "human in the loop" because it implies machine dominance over our work, but humans are still the most valuable part of the loop.

Hank Green's AI burnout reveals a modern trap: these tools give us magical powers to build at scale, but infinite capacity isn't infinite purpose.

For Apple's 50th birthday, I resurrected Bruce the Wonder Yak

I posted 100% AI-generated content on LinkedIn as an experiment. Nobody called it out. Thoughts on slop, authenticity, and why I should hit post more ofte…

TypeScript SDK for Apple's Foundation Models — on-device AI inference in Node.js. No keys. No fees. It just works.

TypeScript/Node.js bindings for Apple's on-device Foundation Models (macOS 26+ only) - codybrom/afm-ts-sdk

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Model Context Protocol server for Dash-style docsets - codybrom/DocsetMCP

Why streaming isn't enough.