And now it's all this

And now it's all this

Dr. Drang

I just said what I said and it was wrong or was taken wrong

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Choosing a driving route in CarPlay

If you pay any attention at all to the Apple-centric web, you saw an explosion of links yesterday to this article by Nikita Prokopov, which rightly eviscerates the proliferation...

Proofreading with the Claude API

As an alternative to the Writing Tools proofreading macro I showed in yesterday’s post, I built another one, called Proofread With Claude, which gets the edited text through a...

Proofreading with Writing Tools

Yes, it’s been less than a week since I wrote about LLM proofreading and showed you the “final” version of the Keyboard Maestro macro I’d been using. And that wasn’t a lie...

Overlapping rectangle puzzle

A couple of weeks ago, Scientific American published this puzzle. There are nine overlapping rectangles, A through I. They overlap one another in a specific pattern using a...

Tweaking my screenshot macro

In my recent post on the Keyboard Maestro episode of Mac Power Users, I needed a screenshot of a Typinator window and had trouble getting what I wanted. I tried using my...

Final (?) version of my LLM proofreading macro

I’ve written two posts on using LLMs to proofread my posts before publishing. In the first post, I had a fairly rudimentary prompt and spent most of my time discussing the...

Powerball in Python

[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] Yesterday morning, before Christmas...

Watch Workout widget worse

Greg Pierce, top turtle wrangler at Agile Tortoise, posted this to Mastodon last week: Since updating to watchOS 26, about every third time I go to start a workout, I find later...

Some lotto math

[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] I planned to talk about this post...

Keyboard Maestro episode on MPU

In the most recent episode of Mac Power Users, David and Stephen discuss Keyboard Maestro, a longtime favorite automation app and the main topic of at least three previous...

There’s nothing you and I won’t do

[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] I’ve talked about area moments of...

Axial vs. bending stiffness

[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] At the end of yesterday’s post, I...

Frame sidesway again

[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] I’ve been meaning to follow up on...

Be careful where you click

I ran into an example of especially bad design on a web page yesterday. Not “how it looks” design; “how it works” design. Here’s an excerpt from an online payment page: Looks...

Equation of time

[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] Speaking of the equation of time,...
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