I’ve been using Cotypist on macOS [1].
Sometimes it feels like it’s reading my mind when I’m typing.
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Sometimes it feels like it’s reading my mind when I’m typing.
For doing something quick, VS Code's Vim mode is… fine. But not if you're something serious. I often quit it in disgust and go back to Neovim.
They do; I used minpac [1] back in the day with Vim. And now Neovim has vim.pack.
Every so often, a movement to create Vim and Neovim configurations with zero (or minimal) 3rd party plugins becomes popular. This means no lazyvim as the package manager.
The lazyvim package manager has all the bells and whistles, especially lazy loading plugins, which reduces Neovim's startup time if you have dozens of plugins installed. My LazyVim [2] configuration has 35 plugins total but only 6 load at startup; startup time: 76ms. Plugins you don't use often aren't loaded unless necessary.
Here’s a video example [2]:
[1]: https://neovim.io/doc/user/usr_10/#_visual-block-mode
[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/jai57c/the_usefulness_...
I’ve never seen AI “hallucinate” on basic data transformation tasks. If you tell it to convert JSON to YAML, that’s what you’re going to get. Most LLMs are probably using something like jq to do the conversion in the background anyway.
AI experts say AI models don’t hallucinate, they confabulate.
They had a guy who had no UI/UX experience leading the UI/UX team. He left for Meta thank goodness [1].
[1]: “Alan Dye Leaves Apple for Meta, Replaced by Longtime Designer Stephen Lemay” — https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/12/03/alan-dye-leaves...
The point is this person has been dealing with Gatekeeper for a long time but all of sudden it’s a deal breaker?
[1]: https://ugrep.com/
Same. Whatever happens, the new version should support Brewfile.
Never had any issues.
A18 Pro has a modest memory bandwidth advantage over the standard A18, which is part of why it can support ProRes recording and always-on display while the standard A18 cannot.
To quote The Godfather II, "This is the business we have chosen."
The most popular and important command line tools for developers don't have the consistency that Claude Code's command line interface does. One reason Claude Code became so popular is because it worked in the terminal, where many developers spend most of their time. But using tools like Claude Code's CLI is a daily occurrence for many developers. Some IDE's can be just as difficult to use.
For people who don’t use the terminal, Claude Code is available in the Claude desktop app, web browsers and mobile phones. There are trade-offs, but to Anthropic’s credit, they provide these options.
Apple recently stated on an earnings call they signed contracts with RAM vendors before prices got out of control, so they should be good for a while. Nvidia also uses TSMC for their chips, which may affect A series and M series chip production.
Yes, TSMC has a plant in Arizona but my understanding is they can't make the cutting edge chips there; at least not yet.
The latest M5 MacBook Pro's start at 307 GB/s memory bandwidth, the 32-core GPU M5 Max gets 460 GB/s, and the 40-core M5 Max gets 614 GB/s. The CPU, GPU, and Neural Engine all share the memory.
The A19/A19 Pro in the current iPhone 17 line is essentially the same processor (minus the laptop and desktop features that aren’t needed for a phone), so it would seem we're not that far off from being able to run sophisticated AI models on a phone.
> Mobile phones don't have separate GPUs and separate VRAM like some desktops.
That's true. The difference is the iPhone has wider memory buses and uses faster LPDDR5 memory. Apple places the RAM dies directly on the same package as the SoC (PoP — Package on Package), minimizing latency. Some Android phones have started to do this, too.
iOS is tuned to this architecture which wouldn't be the case across many different Android hardware configurations.
As someone who lived through the early days of Windows, macOS Tahoe and Windows ME aren’t in the same universe.
> It doesn't matter how much cheap hardware you throw at the unwashed masses.
It's meaningful that a product line that's 41 years old had its best launch for customers new to the platform. That's unprecedented in the computer industry.
There are several mistakes one can make to knock oneself off the Internet that have nothing to do with DNSSEC. These are not the bad old days; compared to 10 years ago, DNSSEC is a lot easier to administer.
The ACME standard recommends ACME-based CAs use DNSSEC for validation, section 11.2 [1]:
An ACME-based CA will often need to make DNS queries, e.g., to
validate control of DNS names. Because the security of such
validations ultimately depends on the authenticity of DNS data, every
possible precaution should be taken to secure DNS queries done by the
CA. Therefore, it is RECOMMENDED that ACME-based CAs make all DNS
queries via DNSSEC-validating stub or recursive resolvers. This
provides additional protection to domains that choose to make use of
DNSSEC.
An ACME-based CA must only use a resolver if it trusts the resolver
and every component of the network route by which it is accessed.
Therefore, it is RECOMMENDED that ACME-based CAs operate their own
DNSSEC-validating resolvers within their trusted network and use
these resolvers both for CAA record lookups and all record lookups in
furtherance of a challenge scheme (A, AAAA, TXT, etc.).
| Last updated. | 2026-03-16 05:04 -0700 |
|:--------------------------------------|:-----------------------|
| Total number of DS Records | 25,099,952 |
| Validatable DNSKEY record sets | 24,559,043 |
| Total DANE protected SMTP | 4,165,253 |
I get it that DNSSEC doesn’t make a lot of sense for large organizations with complex networks. that have been around for decades.
But if you're self-hosting a website for your personal use or for a small-ish organization and your registrar supports it (most do), there's no reason not to enable DNSSEC. I did it recently using Cloudflare and it was a single checkbox in the settings.
An estimated more than 90% of ICANN's ~1,400 top-level domains are DNSSEC enabled, so that shouldn't be a barrier.
Since most of us don't have a personal IT department at our disposal, for the small guy, DNSSEC prevents cache poisoning attacks, man-in-the-middle attacks and DNS spoofing. There are other ways to mitigate these attacks of course, but I've found DNSSEC to be pretty straightforward.
[1]: https://stats.dnssec-tools.org/#/top=tlds
[2]: https://stats.dnssec-tools.org/#/top=dnssec?top=dane&trend_t...
That's not really a thing with Apple Silicon. The A series chips and the M series have the same CPU and GPU core designs.
Because you don't need to support Thunderbolt 4/5 controllers, PCIe lanes for NVMe storage, ProRes encode/decode engines (on Pro/Max/Ultra tiers) and multiple external displays in a device like a phone, Apple TV, or a HomePod these features are absent from A series chips.
The A17 Pro corresponds to the M3, the A18/A18 Pro corresponds to the M4 and the A19/A19 Pro corresponds to the M5. Same core design, different implementations.
It's not like Intel where there are many server processors, desktop processors and mobile processors. Apple uses the same core design they scale up or down as needed, for example the S series chips in the Apple Watch. The S9 is a scaled down A13 or A15.
Naturally it's faster to have all of this in the same package, with memory bandwidth up to 400 GB/s.
Intel and AMD are heading in the same direction.
It has 8 GB of RAM because they wouldn’t be able to hit the price point of $599 with more; their target audience doesn't need more. It's also why the SSD is slower than a MacBook Pro or MacBook Air; it's the only device in the lineup other than the entry-level iPad with a sRGB display; the other devices have P3 Wide Color Displays. No Thunderbolt ports, only supports 1 external display and only at 4K. No Wi-Fi 7.
These are some of the compromises they made to keep the price down. They're also using a binned A18 Pro with 5 GPU cores instead of the 6 core version in the iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max.
There are lots of potential customer for which a Mac laptop was out of reach; it's a lot more affordable at $49.91 /month for 12 months for the $599 model.
Its display is better than PC laptops in the same price range, but that display is a non-starter for graphic designers, video editors, etc.
That's why cannibalization is a non-issue.
As long as you buy a Mac laptop, Apple is fine with that, regardless of which one. That’s because they know who their customers are.
The Neo is in its own category; the $599/$699 Neo doesn’t compete with a 14-inch MacBook Pro with a M5 Pro, 24GB of RAM, and 1 TB SSD at $1899. If you know you need more RAM and storage than Neo, the M5 Mac Air is $1099. But if you need to stay under $1000, the decision is clear.
If anything, the Neo is more competitive with the entry-level iPad with 128 GB of storage at $349; with Apple's keyboard at $249, the total is $598, $1 less than the entry-level Neo.
For someone who wants a "real" laptop with more flexibility than an iPad, getting the $599 Neo is a no-brainer.
The Unified Memory Architecture is why these Macs are so fast—no wasted cycles moving data between RAM and GPU. And the data is compressed in real-time so less data has to be transferred and there's less ware and tear on the SSD, which is directly to SoC [1].
The A18 Pro isn't even two years old yet; it debuted in iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max September 2024. What's funny is none of the PC laptops manufactures can match the speed and quality of the Neo.
The benchmarks for the A18 Pro are impressive; its Single Thread Performance beats all mobile processors [1]; remember this processor was created for a phone:
Apple A18 Pro 4,091
Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz. 3,675
Apple A15 Bionic 3,579
AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme 3,546
AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 230 3,538
Apple A14 Bionic 3,382
Intel Core i5-1235U 3,090
Apple A13 Bionic 2,354
Intel N150 1,902
Intel N100 1,893
AMD Ryzen Embedded R1505G 1,820