I dictate a lot these days (messages, notes, prompts for coding agents), and Handy has been my go-to for it. It’s open source, fast, and the transcription runs entirely on your Mac. The one thing I wanted was for it to get out of the way. No window, no Dock icon, just a little icon in the menu bar. So I forked it and made Handy Bar 🎙️ ...
For a while Spotlight couldn’t find any of my recently installed apps (Herdr, Orca, etc.), and it turns out it had quietly stopped indexing anything for about six weeks. My Mac had been up for 132 days (apparently it was running a software factory kitchen :D), and at some point Spotlight’s index process (mds_stores) restarted and never properly reconnected to the main daemon (mds), so search kept working off the old index while nothing new made it in. ...
I always enjoy chatting about how folks use AI and what tools they use. Partly because everything is changing all the time and you never know if you are missing out on the best tool ever, because let’s be honest, it’s easy to miss, given the torrent of AI-related information coming out every day. Opus 5.5 The GOAT, enough said! Chief of Staff / Firstmate Most of my work now happens through a firstmate-type session that manages other ‘worker’ sessions. The firstmate’s job is to talk to me and manage the other agents for me. These are not subagents but full Claude Code/Codex sessions. This really allows me to scale and do more. While I do lose some visibility into the actual details in the process, I can always jump into an individual session and chat directly if I want to. Which I sometimes still do, but not that often. ...
So I’ve just discovered Obsidian. It’s pretty neat. What’s neat about it you ask? Well it’s the whole vision and the idea around it. And graphs! Or should I call them mindmaps. Mindmaps always made sense to me as a way to organize content. So it would be cool to try them out for my notes, blog posts..etc. I also get the feeling that it was designed by some engineers who wanted a tool for themselves. ...