Few do the kind of deep investigative reporting that Ronan Farrow is known to do. His latest piece on Sam Altman in The New Yorker is something.
Friday night is movie night in our house and we’ve gotten to the point where coming up with a movie is especially tough. Last Friday we chose Uncle Buck, but we ended up stopping it. The 13yo (daughter) was creeped out by it and the 11yo (son) didn’t think it was all that great, despite Kevin McCallister starring in it.
When you save the book for after the movie, it’s like getting an extended director’s cut that includes so much more material, and lets you dive into that world even deeper with characters and details that weren’t captured on screen.
As is the case for many macOS users, I have an overcrowded menubar, especially since my MacBook Air and MacBook Pro have the notch. I’ve been a long-time user of a little macOS menubar utility called Ice, which hasn’t received updates for a while. It seems to still work pretty well, but I have been low-key looking around for something to replace it. To my surprise, I ran across a fork of Ice called Thaw, which is under active development and adds some welcome features.
So cool to see what artists wear. I love this. /via clone.fyi
Definitely installing the WarGames Terminal Fonts in iTerm.
One quick follow-up to my post about Leonard’s handy Twitter archiving tool. I ran into an issue where I had a couple older archives that were done with the Grailbird format, Twitter’s old archive format used before ~2018. I had Codex and Claude collab on a Python script that converts old archives like mine into the modern Twitter archive format so they can be imported into tweetxvault. It does a few things… Reads ‘’tweets.csv’’ from Grailbird archives, extracts account metadata from user_details.js, transforms the CSV data into the modern JSON structure Twitter uses today and generates the files tweetxvault expects: manifest.js, tweets.js, and account.js. I ended up submitting a PR to have this added since I’m probably not the only one with archives in the older format.
Thanks to my friend Leonard’s new tool and the fact that I archived my tweets before I deleted almost everything, I now have a database with all of my tweets, likes and bookmarks in a database. While I haven’t tweeted in a while, I do still log in for AI Twitter. Absolutely nothing else like it.
For some reason, the Quiche Browser surfaced in my feeds, despite not being new, having any big releases or being particularly popular. I’m downloading it again since I haven’t tried it in a long time. Lately I’ve been using Kagi’s Orion browser as my main mobile browser. Dia is what I continue to use and enjoy on macOS, but their new tag organization features really pissed me off recently.
The Jurassic Park Theme slowed down 1000% is lovely.