Michael Camilleri

I am spending a silly amount of time staring at this icon.

Made a really nice vivid version of the classic Windows XP “Bliss” wallpaper. It’s 6K, it’s square, so it works well for all devices. Oh, you’re a Mac person? Fun fact, the original photo was taken in Sonoma. So, there you go. lmnt.me/blog/wallpap...

Given the strengths and limitations of AI, this sounds like a really good process. It accounts for a lot of the issues people have with AI programming, while retaining the role of personhood where knowledge transfer is still materially important.

This did make me smile but in all seriousness, it's not been my experience. This year I've made three iOS apps, ported the Janet programming language to Zig, rewritten two of my command-line utilities in the new language and created a static site generator for Git repositories.

So I made a thing. Augite is a static site generator for Git repos. I use it to generate code.inqk.net. It's like stagit but supports TextMate language grammars for syntax highlighting.

I relate to this a lot. I know literally zero people in the place where I live who are interested in programming.

Weeknotes #353

I got the idea for Wavy Road over 10 years ago. It feels great to finally have it out. A lot of long evenings and weekends went into Wavy Road. I hope you’ll try it out 🤗 apps.apple.com/dk/app/wavy-...

OK, I've taken a couple of different stabs at it but I think I've got the icon for my next app settled.

I'm getting annoyed enough with Siri causing Spotlight not to be able to launch apps reliably that I might need to switch back to Alfred.

Me vibecoding: Amazing, the possibilities are endless. Other people vibecoding: Ew, look at that sloppity slop slop.

My fourth iOS app now has an icon.

Weeknotes #352

Is Spaces in macOS 27 borked for other people or just me?

Wattle is now at v0.2.2 and I've used it to make the executable for Predoc!

Weeknotes #351

That feeling when you submit your visa renewal application and realise you forgot to attach one document.

I’m a bit frustrated to discover that the Immigration Services Agency is now claiming that my application to use their website was granted on 29 September (which means I could, in theory, have lodged an application before the fee hike). When I logged in on Thursday, it wasn’t showing as granted.

At some point when I wasn't looking Apple Music Replay got good. Admittedly, 90% of that assessment is based on the fact it no longer kicks you out to a website. But seriously, it seems pretty decent now.

I’m hopeful I’ll have an official v0.1.0 of Wattle soon :)

Weeknotes #350

I confess this is at least 80% a test.

I don't know if it's just me but Spaces in macOS 27 is completely broken. My keyboard shortcuts stop working after a period of time and apps don't stick to the space into which they're assigned.

Weeknotes #349

I really need Litterbox to work for every short-form social media service.

Weeknotes #348

I'm finding the tab bar in Safari on macOS 27 in Dark Mode is pretty rough. Is this what all you Tahoe people were putting up with for a year?

My Mac Mini has been five minutes away from finishing preparations to install macOS 27 for the last 30 minutes.

I hope I can push this project publicly soon!

And this one is from last Friday.

Eep, I neglected to cross-post this weeknote.

I think @rtfeldman.bsky.social has said that @zed.dev has the best Vim bindings of any editor that isn't, you know, Vim. I agree.

Weeknotes #345

- Free as in speech. - Free as in beer. - Free as in puppy. - Free as in praise.

It doesn't look like SuperDuper 4 likes the sparse disk image I was using with SuperDuper 3. I've created a new disk image and will see if tonight's backup successfully completes.

My C->Zig port of the Janet programming language is passing Janet's test suite without any .c files!

Weeknotes #344

'Blinding Lights' by Abigail Lapell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9jT...

Not to say that @siracusa.social is wrong but I‘m using a coding agent in a Zig project and filled up my disk to the point where I was getting syscall errors saying that there was no space. macOS seemed to handle it like a champ. (I quickly cleaned up caches so it wasn’t prolonged use.)

Weeknotes #343

I was hoping for your help with something. (Please RT for reach.) Is there a particular font that’s instantly recognizable to someone who lives where you do, and appreciated/recognized/hated there, but completely unknown elsewhere? Road signs, street names, transit, infrastructure, stuff like that?

Weeknotes #342

I used Claude and Codex to get to a working version of Persimmon, my technically-in-development-but-really-just-abandoned C library for persistent immutable data structures.

Sony’s Japanese MiniDisc ads with Jamiroquai went insanely hard.

@samuel.fm Is it a known problem that when a user switches from Safari to another app and then back to Safari on the iPad, the position in the feed I’m scrolling is not maintained?

airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027

Weeknotes #341

I had Claude set itself up so that when it wants my attention for anything, it causes Ghostty's Dock icon to jump and make the background of the label of the relevant tmux window a tasteful yellow. I assume this is what it felt like in prior generations to make a spice rack.

This is extremely cool.

So demonstrating that I am well and truly in my 40s, I report to you that Ninajirachi's album, I Love My Computer, is very good.