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Surprised at all the negative comments here. I'm on macOS, using vertical tabs with a default theme and the UI is clean and just gets out of my way. Been very happy with Firefox since I switched a few months ago.

It can be deployed to a node.js server with sqlite https://docs.emdashcms.com/deployment/nodejs/

Not as simple as wp, but not tied to one hosting provider.

It can be deployed to a node.js server with sqlite https://docs.emdashcms.com/deployment/nodejs/

Not as simple as wp, but not tied to one hosting provider.

If my horse is ‘a useful piece of software’, what are the cars and motorboats that AI coding is going to give me?

There's also BetterMouse for macOS. I use it with a Logitech mouse and it works very well. https://better-mouse.com/

I'm curious if OpenLogi might be better. Despite the vibecoding accusations here, it has 55 contributors, is open source and seems well designed.

ZeroFS might help here to put the actual storage on an S3 compatible object store? https://github.com/Barre/zerofs

Isolated machines was release recently: https://docs.orbstack.dev/machines/isolated - various recent improvements in the release notes: https://docs.orbstack.dev/release-notes

Nothing specific for Docker yet, but I find the Linux machines are lightweight enough that I just run Docker inside them.

Can you clarify how this relates to Tachyons - do all Tachyons features work? Or is it a subset of Tachyons?

Tailscale have a great FAQ about IPv4 vs IPv6: https://tailscale.com/docs/reference/faq/ipv6

If you're not an expert in this area it's worth a read - I certainly learned a few things!

atproto has an active IETF Working Group: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/atp/about/

Runbox are a good option - company and servers in Norway: https://runbox.com/

Been around since 2000. They're also working on JMAP support and are the top financial contributor to the Stalwart mail server (https://opencollective.com/stalwart) so I think they'll have a more compelling offering soon.

Also worth keeping an eye on Thunderbird pro which will also use Stalwart: https://www.tb.pro/en-US/

atproto feels like a move in the right direction for personal publishing that makes content discovery easier withtout the need to post to multiple channels / platforms. https://standard.site/ is one initiative working towards making this a reality.

I enjoyed about your blog post, but I was curious about the claim in point 2 above. I asked Claude and it seems the claim is false:

# Fact-Checking This Climate Impact Claim

Let me break down this claim with actual data:

## The Numbers

*US Air Conditioning:* - US A/C uses approximately *220-240 TWh/year* (2020 EIA data) - This represents about 6% of total US electricity consumption

*Global Data Centers:* - Estimated *240-340 TWh/year globally* (IEA 2022 reports) - Some estimates go to 460 TWh including cryptocurrency

*AI's Share:* - AI represents roughly *10-15%* of data center energy (IEA estimates this is growing rapidly)

## Verdict: *The claim is FALSE*

The math doesn't support a 4:1 ratio. US A/C and global data centers use *roughly comparable* amounts of energy—somewhere between 1:1 and 1:1.5, not 4:1.

The "40 times AI" conclusion would only work if the 4x premise were true.

## Important Caveats

1. *Measurement uncertainty*: Data center energy use is notoriously difficult to measure accurately 2. *Rapid growth*: AI energy use is growing much faster than A/C 3. *Geographic variation*: This compares one country's A/C to global data centers (apples to oranges)

## Reliable Sources - US EIA (Energy Information Administration) for A/C data - IEA (International Energy Agency) for data center estimates - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory studies

The quote significantly overstates the disparity, though both are indeed major energy consumers.

see Nominative Determinism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism

TIL you can still buy fax machines!

The aha moment for me was to type a space after the characters I'm searching for - then hit tab. You then get the list of options ranked (and a nice view showing the contents of each folder).

Release blog post with more details: https://swinsian.com/blog/2025/08/19/swinsian-3/

The best macOS music player. Highly recommended - I use it every day for a huge collection of music and it's fabulous.

Obsidian recently introduced a native 'Download attachments for current file' which you can invoke with cmd / ctrl + p.

I like this as I don't always want all the images for something I've clipped from the web. This gives me the choice.

For people who have tried the new agent panel in Zed, how does it compare to something like Cursor or Windsurf?

(I've yet to dive deep into AI coding tools and currently use Zed as an 'open source Sublime Text alternative' because I like the low latency editing.)

Claude created an SVG as an artifact for me - it's pretty good: https://claude.site/artifacts/b6d146cc-bed8-4c76-a8cd-5f8c34...

The hour hand is pointing directly at 9 when it should be between 9 and 10.

It got it wrong the first time (the minute hand was pointing at 5). I told it that and it apologised and fixed it.

I can recommend Wipr 2 - excellent blocker from a great developer. I've now switched to Safari for all my YouTube watching. Universal purchase works on macOS, ipadOS and iOS.