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It’s 4 AM, and I’m up again. I really need this insomnia to go away.

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Apple Watch after 2 years

Apple Watch, year 2: excellent jogging buddy, sleep-shaming device, and an overpriced vibrating meditation reminder bracelet. MS Teams got banned immediately. But it’s not all bad.

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Apple Mail - highlight a part of an email, and it shows up in your reply. Email threads are sorted by chronological order.

Outlook - Highlighting does nothing. Copy-paste automatically defaults to the original fonts and style, not that of the email. Email threads (“conversations”) have two timelines in one: chronological and reverse-chronological.

I’m starting to think they have a position for “torturer” they hire for now and then.

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We've built an AI so good it will kill us with its kindness

I tried Claude like everyone else, and came back terrified because I found the best teacher I could have hoped for.

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More signs of spring 📷

Auto-generated description: Tall trees with blooming white flowers reach towards a clear blue sky. Auto-generated description: A tall tree with ivy climbing its trunk stands among leafless trees against a bright blue sky. Auto-generated description: Branches of trees adorned with white blossoms are set against a bright blue sky.

I took a walk and listened to the birds for a moment. It’s always nice to get chances like this in Manhattan:

Auto-generated description: Sunlit stone steps wind through a lush, wooded area under a clear blue sky.

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Fighting with bots. I’m not provided the option I need (work/enterprise-related shipment, and the only option on the website or on the phone is for home service.) The bot doesn’t route me to a human, no matter what I try. Some service.

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One of my automatic tasks for my Mac is to delete my downloads folder every weekend. At the start, I was worried this would cause me to lose important files, but I have backups and it actually made me more purposeful with how I save them.

What are some of yours?

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So I fixed my blog again

Spent days debugging my blog’s broken microhooks, only to find Hugo was using the “default” file instead of my custom one. Turns out, a flipped template and a missing dash in a title were the culprits. Shoutout to Qwen3-Coder for the assist. AI can be a great tutor. My blog matters more than I thought.

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A Minecraft Movie, 2025 - ★★½

Solid fun, a nice plot for a movie based on a video game. Highly expected, nothing too special, but a somewhat confusing plot - the one that is based on the real world feels almost as fantastical as the Minecraft one.

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I seem to have fixed the issues on my blog. This required a deeper dive into my template and understanding how Hugo prioritizes pages. Qwen3 helped by answering my clarifying questions from the documentation and gave me a bit of confidence, which did the trick.