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eddyg··on Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues
Swish⁽¹⁾ lets you drag the divider to resize multiple windows at once. BentoBox⁽²⁾ is inspired by Fancy Zones. And Lasso⁽³⁾ is a grid-based window manager with custom layouts. There's also MacsyZones⁽⁴⁾ that appears to resize multiple adjoining windows but I've never used it (it appears to be open-source with an option to pay to support the author).

⁽¹⁾ https://highlyopinionated.co/swish/

⁽²⁾ https://bentoboxapp.com/

⁽³⁾ https://www.thelasso.app/

⁽⁴⁾ https://macsyzones.com/

eddyg··on Using an engineering notebook
For me it's mostly about being able to find stuff. For example, I save links (with some notes) that I've seen that day, and weeks/months later I'll remember "I read an article about $THING" or "I saw a repo that was similar to $THING" and I'll be able to find it.

Omnisearch is really good: https://publish.obsidian.md/omnisearch

eddyg··on My wife calls me, panicked
Have you tried ElevenLabs latest "expressive mode" models? ("Von Fusion" is particularly fun!) Models like this (well, not Von Fusion, but some of the others...) in the hands of scammers will be able to fool a lot of people.

https://elevenlabs.io/agents/expressive-mode

eddyg··on Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code
Quoting from https://web.archive.org/web/20181118114804/http://imsai.net/...

“Director John Badham states in the commentary that the actor voicing the raw content that was later modified for the computerized effect was John Wood (the Falken character), reading the script word-for-word in reverse order in order to portray a "flat quality" with limited inflection. That raw audio was then edited and re-assembled after being run through audio processing equipment to achieve the desired effect.”

eddyg··on Using an engineering notebook
Obsidian with the (core) Daily Notes⁽¹⁾ plugin plus Jump-To-Date⁽²⁾ and Daily Note Navbar⁽³⁾ is a powerful combo for me.

Everything is still searchable (or can be fed into an LLM) since it’s all Markdown text files behind the scenes. (And I can type my thoughts much faster than I can write.)

⁽¹⁾ https://help.obsidian.md/plugins/daily-notes

⁽²⁾ https://github.com/TfTHacker/obsidian42-jump-to-date

⁽³⁾ https://github.com/karstenpedersen/obsidian-daily-note-navba...

eddyg··on Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance
Quoting from the press release: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/01/apple-introduces-new-...

"Designed exclusively for tracking objects, and not people or pets"

(emphasis mine)

eddyg··on Show HN: CodeMic
Somewhat related (and seems like a lot of folks don't know about) is VS Code's "Code Tour" feature: https://github.com/microsoft/codetour

The best part is the ability to easily edit, delete, and re-order "tour points".

Tours can either be checked into the repo or exported to a "tour file" to allows anyone to replay the same tour (without having to clone any code to do it!)

eddyg··on Stop Using Face ID
Not just open, but (by default) “paying attention” and not actively trying to “look away” from the phone:

The TrueDepth camera will provide an additional level of security by verifying that you are looking at iPhone before unlocking. Some sunglasses may block attention detection.

eddyg··on Stop Using Face ID
The iPhone automatically goes into BFU (Before First Unlock) after 72 hours of inactivity (it actually reboots the phone). This can’t be disabled.

In addition, there are additional restrictions where your passcode will be required. For example, if the passcode has not been used to unlock the device in the last six days and Face ID has not unlocked the device in the last eight hours, then you must use a passcode to access the device (in other words, biometric unlock is automatically disabled).

If you've ever wondered why you've had to enter your passcode after a good night's sleep and haven't entered your passcode recently, that's probably why!

Given these built-in precautions, a click-bait headline like this is a bit excessive for most people.

eddyg··on You Are Here
There are already agents doing this in SRE roles.

Agents are monitoring metrics and logs. A bug is introduced into the system. Error rates go up and the agents notify diagnostic agents. These agents look at recent commits and figure out the problem. They instruct another agent about how to fix the issue and deploy the change. The problem is fixed before an engineer even has time to start looking at logs.

If you aren’t seeing this, you’re not keeping up with what others are already doing. It’s not just people vibe coding ToDo apps.

eddyg··on Microsoft's Copilot chatbot is running into problems
If you have Apple News, you can open the article in Safari and then "Share" it to the News app.
eddyg··on Show HN: ÆTHRA – Writing Music as Code
Have you heard of Switch-Angel? If not, check out https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hbZb1Q0mM7k (to pick one) for a taste of what Strudel is capable of in "real time".
eddyg··on Sometimes your job is to stay the hell out of the way
He posts his articles to his socials,⁽¹⁾ along with the occasional quip like “Your life is going to be full of people sounding like they know what they’re talking about.” and “Your three-day response time to critical communications tells me exactly what I need to know.” and “You're either getting stuff done or talking about getting stuff done.”

⁽¹⁾ https://www.threads.com/@rands

eddyg··on Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking
+1 on Nebula. I don’t know why it doesn’t get mentioned more as an overlay network option.
eddyg··on A lot of the Moltbook stuff is fake
This guy⁽¹⁾ claims ”Over night Henry [his ClawdBot] got a phone number from Twilio, connected the ChatGPT voice API, and waited for me to wake up to call me … He now won't stop calling me”

Pretty sure there are some hoops to jump through before you can get a phone number from Twilio...

⁽¹⁾ https://x.com/alexfinn/status/2017305997212323887

eddyg··on Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf]
Krstić: “Here’s how we reduce the chance that even Apple can access or alter X, and here’s how we can make that credible.”

Ross: “Even if you make X cryptographically airtight, the real fight becomes political/physical coercion: ‘ship this or else.’”

Those can both be true at the same time.

eddyg··on Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf]
I still like to encourage people to watch all of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLGFriOKz6U&t=1993s for the details (from Apple’s head of Security Engineering and Architecture) about how iCloud is protected by HSMs, rate limits, etc. but especially the timelinked section. :)
eddyg··on Automatic Programming
In case you didn’t know, Linus does vibe code now:

https://github.com/torvalds/AudioNoise/blob/main/README.md

eddyg··on I found the perfect yearly calendar (for me)
This one is very customizable: https://github.com/abetusk/neatocal
eddyg··on Fedora Asahi Remix is now working on Apple M3
Thanks!
eddyg··on Fedora Asahi Remix is now working on Apple M3
Memory Integrity Enforcement, perhaps?

https://security.apple.com/blog/memory-integrity-enforcement...

eddyg··on After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand
Previous discussion on the video: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46744572
eddyg··on Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant
There are definitely people who should not be running this

https://www.shodan.io/search?query=clawdbot-gw

eddyg··on Microsoft will give the FBI a Windows PC data encryption key if ordered
Wrong.

You can (and should) watch all of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLGFriOKz6U&t=1993s for the details about how iCloud is protected by HSMs and rate limits to understand why you’re wrong, but especially the time-linked section… instead of spreading FUD about something you know nothing about.

eddyg··on Microsoft will give the FBI a Windows PC data encryption key if ordered
Which is a very good thing.

iCloud is much more secure than most people realize because most people don’t take the 30 minutes to learn how it is architected.

You can (and should) watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLGFriOKz6U&t=1993s for all the details about how iCloud is protected, but especially the time-linked section. :)

eddyg··on Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops
You should watch the whole BlackHat talk (from 2016!) from Apple's Head of Security Engineering and Architecture, but especially this part:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLGFriOKz6U&t=1993s

eddyg··on Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops
You shouldn't include Apple in this.

As of macOS Tahoe, the FileVault key you (optionally) escrow with Apple is stored in the iCloud Keychain, which is cryptographically secured by HSM-backed, rate-limited protections.

You can (and should) watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLGFriOKz6U&t=1993s for all the details about how iCloud is protected.

eddyg··on Microsoft Gave FBI Keys to Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw
Don't include iCloud in this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLGFriOKz6U&t=1993s

eddyg··on The super-slow conversion of the U.S. to metric (2025)
Fahrenheit forever!

    0°C.................100°C
    Cold                 Dead

    0°F.................100°F
    Really Cold    Really Hot
eddyg··on Wikipedia: WikiProject AI Cleanup
https://github.com/blader/humanizer
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