What makes a good blog good?
Up early (again) with coffee in hand, pondering what separates the blogs I actually enjoy from the noise. It’s not the platform—Micro.blog, Bear, whatever—or perfect grammar. At the end, it’s the human showing through. What do you think?
My blog on Manue’s Prople and Blogs today!
It’s 4 AM, and I’m up again. I really need this insomnia to go away.
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.
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.
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.
More signs of spring 📷
I took a walk and listened to the birds for a moment. It’s always nice to get chances like this in Manhattan:
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.
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?
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.