I’m looking forward to the Murderbot adaptation, but what I’d like to see even more is a Locke Lamora adaptation.

shooting plane with new shooting board on woodworking table

Made a new shooting board to go with a new shooting plane I picked up as a factory second a while back from Lee Valley. First time I’ve ever used a dedicated shooting plane with a track. What a pleasure to use.

Apple should insert a portrait of Kier hanging on a wall in the background, in a discrete place, for just a few frames of all of the shows they’re producing. It would be a fun Easter egg.

To activate Siri on only one Apple device while at home, set other devices to listen for “Hey Siri”. Allow the device of choice to listen for either “Siri” or “Hey Siri.” Then you can activate the chosen device by saying “Siri” without activating the others.

Burnside Bridge, Antietam National Battlefield, earlier today. Beautiful spot, I’m only a little sad I can’t do some fly fishing here.

A stone bridge with arches spans a partially frozen river, surrounded by snow-covered trees and landscape.

Random (minor) predictions for 2025

  • Mozilla continues random experiments instead of doubling down of Firefox.
  • Kagi announces a new partner.
  • TextExpander seeks new model amidst growing competition.
  • Raycast makes an acquisition.
  • FastMail acquires FMail2, or at least buys the developer a coffee.
  • RSS enjoys tiny uptick in popularity. Nobody pays much attention.
  • Flipboard resurgence.
  • Chrome is spun off, but nobody can articulate how this helps.
  • Tai Chi is popular again.
  • Suddenly, there are so many social/feed aggregation services.
  • The U.S. government is required to use X by executive order.
  • Passkey adoption remains weak.
  • Apple acquires Craft.

It feels like we are in a new era of browser choice (Zen, Orion, Arc, Vivaldi, etc.). I would love to see OmniWeb come back.