Life, mostly outside.

We’re usually outside or on the go. I build small things when something gets in the way. Somewhere in there, technology became fun again.

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Gulf coast shoreline and pier stretching into calm water, seen from the air — Gulf coast · Naples

A good place to start

I text a number in Messages and a Mac Mini answers like a capable friend.

Highlights

Bubbles Can Search Our Family Photos. It Cannot Change Them.

We wanted to ask Bubbles for an old family photograph without scrolling for ten minutes. The useful design was not what the assistant could do. It was making deletion, editing, and broad access impossible.

Jul 29, 2026 · 3 min read

Bubbles talks over a local socket to a small signed app, the only program with photo-library access. It offers seven verbs. Delete, edit, hide, favorite, rewrite metadata, and remove from album do not exist.

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From the archive

A couple worth keeping.

Small evidence that we do occasionally leave the house.

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Builder second

Things that run quietly.

I run a few businesses and a house with too many devices. I build small systems so neither needs me every five minutes. Where the tinkering pays rent

time zones: 3
outages fixed without me: 2am
server named Randy: 1

The end of the dock

There’s usually room for one more chair.

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