Notes on AI, tools, and tech.
iOS 27 is out for the iPhone 11 and newer. Apple says apps open up to 30% faster. Here’s what actually changed, and who should wait. iOS 27 landed on Monday, September 14. The build number is 24A437. The download runs about 8GB. It ships for the same device list as iOS 26: anything from … Read more
A design task that runs $1.61 on GPT-6 Astra costs about 2.3 cents on DeepSeek’s new model. Same brief, same output, one bill sixty times smaller. That single number is the whole pitch. DeepSeek widened that gap on purpose, and it did it three days after teaching its chatbot to talk out loud. Vision is … Read more
Ask a friend in the US to name the biggest phone brands in the world. You’ll hear Apple, Samsung, maybe Google, maybe Motorola. What you almost never hear is Xiaomi, which is strange, because by shipment numbers Xiaomi is the third-largest phone maker on the planet. It outsells almost everyone, and a typical American has … Read more
I was eating cereal at my desk when it occurred to me that I’d opened WorkBuddy eleven times yesterday and finished none of the tasks I’d opened it for. I’ve been messing with WorkBuddy for a few days now. The official goal was to build myself a cleaner workbench. The actual result, looking back, is … Read more
I’ve been watching people compare WorkBuddy and Codex for a while now, and honestly? I don’t think they understand what they’re comparing. Here’s the short version: if you’ve used Codex deeply, you’re probably never going to touch WorkBuddy. And that’s fine. WorkBuddy’s actual users are people who never needed Codex in the first place. I’ve … Read more
Apple announced the new Mac Studio with M5 Ultra yesterday, and my feed has been nothing but benchmarks and hot takes since. I was eating cereal when I saw the press release — not even kidding. I almost choked because the memory configs go up to 512GB now, which is insane for a desktop you … Read more
I almost sold my old phone for $15. That’s what the recycling site offered. Fifteen bucks. I stared at the screen and thought, “Really? This thing has a Snapdragon processor, 4GB of RAM, and a perfectly good screen. And you’re giving me lunch money?” So I didn’t sell it. Instead, I turned it into a … Read more
I woke up to something weird this morning. Scrolling through Twitter, I saw a post about Sony adding free TV to the PS5. Over 100 channels. No subscription. Just ads. My first reaction wasn’t excitement. It was confusion. I was mid-coffee when I scrolled past this, half-asleep, squinting at my phone. And I remember thinking … Read more
I checked my battery health last week. 91%. Not bad, right? But my phone was dying by 3 PM. Every single day. I wasn’t gaming or editing video. Just scrolling, texting, taking some photos. Something didn’t add up. So I went down the rabbit hole. Read through Apple’s support docs, watched a bunch of videos, … Read more
Apple pushed out iOS 27 Beta 7 to developers today. I checked the build number first — that’s usually where the interesting stuff hides. And sure enough, 24A5424a. The “a” at the end? That’s Apple’s way of saying they’re almost done. But let me back up. I’ve been following the iOS 27 beta cycle since … Read more