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Dr. Drang
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[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 last week’s belaying post, I said we’d look into the condition in which the...
My apologies to those of you hoping for another pulse-pounding post on the mechanics of belaying, but I’m going to talk about Apple again. The belaying follow-up should come out this weekend. What prompted this post was being chastised...
[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 bothered by this little physics problem for a couple of days. It appeared on Rhett...
I strained my right thigh and hip this fall doing something, but I don’t know what it was. Eventually, after several weeks of thinking it would work itself out, I decided it wouldn’t and started going to physical therapy. Several of the...
Do you remember the Acid Tests? Not Ken Kesey’s Acid Tests; even I’m not old enough to remember those; I only read about them in Tom Wolfe’s book. No, I’m talking about the tests that checked browsers on how well they complied with web...
After writing this morning’s post, I went down to Channahon for a walk along the I&M Canal towpath. On the drive there and back, I thought about redoing the project in Python instead of Mathematica. It seemed like a fairly easy problem,...
[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.] As a general rule, I don’t get the fascination mathematicians have with Fibonacci numbers, but I...
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 of menu icons in macOS 26. I may write up my thoughts on...
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 call to Anthropic’s Claude API. I make the call in Python...
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 because it is the final version of that macro. It’s just that I’m...
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 notation I hadn’t seen before: A\(D, F) F\(A, B, I) B\(F, G)...
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 SnapClip macro, but I found that when the macro’s user input window...
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 feedback ChatGPT gave me. By the second post, I had refined the...
[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 got going, I read about the big Powerball win Wednesday...
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 it didn’t start. The way the button animation swiping...