In 2004, Lawrence Lessig sent out a mass email to his entire contact list saying, more or less: “Sorry, I deleted all your emails without reading them. If it was important, send it again.” He had spent 80 hours that week trying to empty an inbox cluttered with emails dating back to 2002. He was getting 200 emails per day. Lessig wasn’t disorganized. He was a Law Professor at Stanford. And even so, email defeated him. ...
I’m building a menu bar app for macOS. It works perfectly on my Mac. Now I need to know if it works on a clean macOS: without my settings, without my permissions, without my data. A user installing it from scratch. How do you test that? You need a virtual machine. “Easy,” I thought. “I have UTM installed. I’ll open the wizard, create a macOS VM, and we’re good to go.” ...
Knock, knock. Who’s there? Touch ID. Again. Picture this: you’re working in your terminal, pulling secrets from 1Password with op read. You need the Linear API key. Touch ID. The OpenRouter one. Touch ID. The Gitea one. Touch ID. In half an hour it asked for my finger fourteen times. You know what happens when a security tool interrupts you fourteen times in thirty minutes? By the fifth time you’re not reading what it’s asking for. You put your finger down like a reflex. “Yeah, whatever, let me work.” ...
A 100-Megabyte Binary for a CLI Anthropic just announced that Claude Code is now available as a native build. Translation: a binary executable you can install with a curl command that doesn’t need Node.js. Sounds good, right? One command, no dependencies, background auto-updates. Any CLI tool’s dream. But there’s a catch: the binary weighs 100MB. To put this in perspective, the git binary weighs about 3MB. curl is less than 1MB. Even Go, which has a reputation for generating fat binaries, rarely exceeds 15-20MB. ...