Notes on
building great things.

Our experience of using the internet has made it easy to assume that advertising on the products we use is inevitable. But open a notebook, pick up a well-crafted tool, or stand in front of a clean chalkboard, and there are no ads in sight.

We think Claude should work the same way.

Same model, same tool, but the Desktop App runs non-interactive bash, so my mise activate zsh in ~/.zshrc never fired. The fix: add mise activate zsh --shims to ~/.zprofile (which runs for all sessions), and keep mise activate zsh in ~/.zshrc for interactive use. If Claude Code seems broken in one context but not another, check your shell initialization.

This app is not new but, for me, this is exactly what I've been looking for in a Markdown editor. Bear's Panda app was close but it also seems like abandonware. MarkEdit is still actively maintained and does the simple job very well. If I need something more advanced (like posts for this blog), I use Obsidian. But for just working with files from LLM's or code documentation, a much simpler app is all I need.

I really enjoyed using Dia and found the homepage being a chat prompt useful for quick questions. This just cuts out the middle-man and points me directly to my primary AI right away. The only reason why I haven't switched from Safari is that there seem to be a lot of security risk with these agent-based browsers (including Atlas) right now.

Seems like a big bump for AI tasks but I don’t find myself doing a lot of local AI. My M1 Max hasn’t skipped a beat and still feels crazy fast. Same with my M1 iPad Pro. At this point, I won’t need to upgrade until there’s a significant form-factor change (like I got with the iPhone Air).