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I’ve found the den.

I’ve been running Ollama on my Mac Studio for local AI experiments. I followed advice to try oMLX instead and it’s ludicrously faster, like maybe 5-10x for both time to first token and completing the response. I haven’t benchmarked it, but it subjectively feels like when I replaced a hard drive with an SSD.

Siri is so bad as a voice assistant that it made me stop caring about device-local AI, which is impressive. Yesterday, “hey Siri, turn off the bedroom lights” worked. Today, that responded with “sorry, I can only set one scene at a time”. The proper phrasing — for now — is “hey Siri, turn the bedroom lights off.”

Walking to work, “hey Siri, podcasts play”, which is/was the documented way to play a podcast, started streaming random music. “Hey Siri, play a 🤬🤬🤬 podcast” did the trick.

SFO now lets you walk loved ones to the gate without a plane ticket

San Francisco International Airport is now allowing approved visitors without plane tickets to go past security, bringing back a once familiar airport ritual: walking loved ones to the gate and meeting them when they arrive.

This would (almost) win me back from OAK. That’s a brilliant perk.

Sometimes recent loss means being in the middle of a meeting and your body deciding, hey, know what, this would be an excellent time to consider crying.

I just replied to a recruiter cold call:

Hi [recruiter],

I’ll be honest, in the spirit of feedback: that’s an insultingly low offer at about 60-70% under the local market rate for those skills. Best of luck to your client, because frankly, they’re going to need it with the kind of engineers willing to consider that offer.

As if.

AI is fantastic at configuring Emacs.

Me: Why does Emacs format this TS differently than Prettier does?

Droid: There’s the problem. Apheleia’s prettier-typescript formatter includes (apheleia-formatters-js-indent “–use-tabs” “–tab-width”), which injects –tab-width and –use-tabs flags based on your Emacs buffer settings. These override the project’s .prettierrc.json config, so Prettier gets different arguments than when your coworkers run it from the command line.

US Senate Candidate Caught Insider Trading on Kalshi Says He Did It on Purpose | WIRED:

Moran claims that he stopped speaking to Kalshi because he objected to the company’s settlement terms. “They wanted me to make a public statement,” he says. That was the thing that I pushed back on, that’s a violation of my First Amendment rights, to compel my speech.”

What a freaking tool.

Atlassian Enables Default Data Collection to Train AI:

Atlassian is changing its data contribution policy so that, starting August 17, 2026, it will use customer metadata and in-app content from Jira, Confluence, and other Atlassian Cloud products to train its AI capabilities, including Rovo and Rovo Dev. The update applies to about 300,000 customers and implements tiered defaults: lower tiers cannot opt out of metadata collection, while Enterprise plans retain opt-out controls. Atlassian will retain contributed data for up to seven years.

Buh-bye! 👋

One day I was walking through the office and noticed a coworker’s laptop sitting on their desk, unlocked and open. The little devil on my shoulder whispering “do it! do it!” won. I looked around, made sure they weren’t walking my way, opened their Slack to our #random channel, and typed the first silly, innocuous, non-fireable, and outlandish thing that crossed my mind.

That’s how “milk bath’ing” became a thing in our office. If someone leaves their laptop unlocked, odds are one of their neighbors will post some variation of this from that person’s Slack.

Now my coworkers are paranoid about keeping their laptops locked, and I think we’re all a little safer for that silly little ritual.