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• Getting Journal Club onto my phone 2026-07-18
  Journal Club plays in the browser with no download and no feed. I wanted the episodes on my phone for the train, so I built a tool that signs in as me and drops each one into iCloud Drive.
• The water-bill projector code is open source 2026-07-01
  After the last post on projecting my water bill, some wanted to "see the code"! Now it's on GitHub, cleaned up so you can point it at your own utility.
• Using Agents, OpenClaw and a Mac Studio to project a smart water meter bill 2026-06-29
  My water meter has a cloud API. After a surprise bill I started monitoring my usage with OpenClaw, an agent and a Mac Studio.
• Where Am I? Identifying & Mapping macOS Virtual Desktops 2026-06-15
  macOS lets you jump between Spaces with ctrl+1, ctrl+2, … but never shows which one you're on. There's no public API to ask either. Here's the tiny menu-bar badge I shipped and the two-signal hack behind the number.
• Hacking Local LLMs on OSX 2023-11-07
  Running local LLM inference on an M2 MacBook Pro with oobabooga's text-generation-webui.
• Hacking MetaGPT 2023-10-30
  Asked MetaGPT for a hello-world site, got a full PRD, system design, and a half-working Flask app instead.
• Hacking MemGPT 2023-10-23
  Trying MemGPT (LLMs as operating systems), hitting a binary-file import bug, and sending a fix upstream.