Setting up iCloud sync for BBEdit preferences. #apple

What makes Lisp difficult to read?. I don’t think the Stroop effect is after all of the implied slowdown. Rather, lack of practice with functional languages and infix notation that we were told ever since we were children are probably more important in this case, but that’s my 2¢.

It’s 2026 and summarizing a blog post of a few paragraphs takes as little as two clicks from BBEdit and a few hundreds of Mo of RAM – close to what Apple Music swallows when playing two albums in a row, starting from fresh. I stand bemused, but at least the result is quite good.

RIP MedStats after John Whittington passing away.

Alright, I know what you mean now, sorry about the confusion. Let me redo it for you. And again it would do a fucking mess that is not what I was requesting. It started reminding me of the strategy where Google lowered the quality of the search results, forcing users to search several times, and see several times as many ads. And if that worked for Google, how is it not going to work for AI? Specially in the uncertain financial times the AI companies are going through, do you really think they would not do it? Come on. They will do this and more. — One month without AI

It looks like Siri AI writing tools are now included in BBEdit. Or did I miss it from the beginning?

Things used to work, things had been quite nice for a while even. I usually felt being the owner and in charge of my electronic devices for the better part of my life. There’s been a lot of stuff that used to just worked. — Beautiful “new” cloud world: Apple Music

Last week I discovered some nifty features of Apple Podcast (verbatim transcript with active links to Apple Music). I’m no big user of podcasts – last time I listened to a podcast about data science was 8 or 10 years ago, maybe.

/me is listening to “Tomorrow’s calling” by Andy Sex Gang

I bought an Homepod today. It’s the second time I get into an Apple center, btw. It’s quite cool as my (also) new Apple TV 4K can use the Homepod as its audio output. The sound is fairly well-balanced (though the bass is a bit heavy at times) and spatialization is really good – I wonder if using two such devices would improve the overall feeling of immersion. When I use it as my audio output from my MacBook, I’ll get full control from my iPhone as well. Ah, and it comes with temperature and humidity sensors. My previous setup was based on an old Apple TV connected to a DAC with an optical cable.