Modern Tech Cockroach

Boy Oh Boy Does It Show

Friends don’t let friends use Ollama, local software needs to be the norm, and why it’s not fun to read what LLMs write. ---------------------------------------- 🔗 Links * Since You Arrived [https://sinceyouarrived.world] * Friends Don’t Let Friends Use Ollama [https://sleepingrobots.com/dreams/stop-using-ollama/] * Local AI needs to be the norm [https://unix.foo/posts/local-ai-needs-to-be-norm/] * Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud [https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/local-first/] * Local-first Software Directory [https://lofi.so] * Sinceerly [https://sinceerly.com] * Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain [https://archive.ph/rPLjp] * original 404 Media link [https://www.404media.co/your-ai-use-is-breaking-my-brain/] (paywalled) You can find Justin Mayer on the web at justinmayer.com [https://justinmayer.com] and on the Fediverse at justin.ramble.space [https://ramble.space/@justin]. Dan Jacobson’s homestead on the web is at danj.ca [https://danj.ca].

Chaotic Flowers Bloom

Apple has a new CEO, Mac windows still have proxy icons, and Anthropic finds a clever way to increase the price for Claude without increasing prices. ---------------------------------------- 🔗 Links * Pelican 4.12 released [https://getpelican.com/blog/pelican-4.12-released/] * Bubbles.town [https://bubbles.town] * Window proxy icons in Mac OS 8.5 Human Interface Guidelines (1998) [https://web.archive.org/web/20160207001836/http://mirror.informatimago.com/next/developer.apple.com/documentation/macos8/HumanInterfaceToolbox/WindowManager/ProgWMacOS8.5WindowMgr/WindowMgr.5.html] * Window proxy icons in Neovide [https://github.com/neovide/neovide/issues/3488] * Claude 4.7 increased token usage [https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/20/claude-token-counts/] You can find Justin Mayer on the web at justinmayer.com [https://justinmayer.com] and on the Fediverse at justin.ramble.space [https://ramble.space/@justin]. Dan Jacobson’s homestead on the web is at danj.ca [https://danj.ca].

Delusional Fever Dream

We discuss a tool for comparing coding fonts, GitHub announces support for stacked pull requests, and Facebook kills its “metaverse”. ---------------------------------------- 🔗 Links * Abstractions episode title truncated [https://social.joshthomas.dev/@josh/116375655040921467] * CodingFont.com [https://www.codingfont.com] * GitHub stacked PRs [https://github.github.com/gh-stack/] * Native instant space switching on MacOS [https://arhan.sh/blog/native-instant-space-switching-on-macos/] * AeroSpace tiling window manager for MacOS [https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace] * Open-source design stack [https://piccalil.li/blog/the-open-source-design-stack/] * Facebook kills its metaverse [https://archive.ph/ExgYy] You can find Justin Mayer on the web at justinmayer.com [https://justinmayer.com] and on the Fediverse at justin.ramble.space [https://ramble.space/@justin]. Dan Jacobson’s homestead on the web is at danj.ca [https://danj.ca].

Rather Accurate Quip

Little Snitch is now available for Linux, OpenAI buys a podcast, web sites hijack the browser back button, and a bundle of 30 WordPress plugins were hacked. ---------------------------------------- 🔗 Links * MacOS scroll-to-zoom [https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/04/13/macos-zoom-gesture] * Little Snitch for Linux [https://obdev.at/products/littlesnitch-linux/index.html] * Little Snitch for Linux — Because Nothing Else Came Close [https://www.obdev.at/blog/little-snitch-for-linux/] * OpenAI buys TBPN [https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/04/02/openai-tbpn] * Om Malik and Ben Thompson’s take [https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/04/07/om-malik-on-openai-buying-tbpn] * Sometimes powerful people just do dumb s–t [https://www.joanwestenberg.com/sometimes-powerful-people-just-do-dumb-shit/] * A new spam policy for “back button hijacking” [https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2026/04/back-button-hijacking] * StopTheMadness browser plugin [https://underpassapp.com/StopTheMadness/] * Someone Bought 30 WordPress Plugins and Planted a Backdoor in All of Them [https://anchor.host/someone-bought-30-wordpress-plugins-and-planted-a-backdoor-in-all-of-them/] You can find Justin Mayer on the web at justinmayer.com [https://justinmayer.com] and on the Fediverse at justin.ramble.space [https://ramble.space/@justin]. Dan Jacobson’s homestead on the web is at danj.ca [https://danj.ca].

Professional Laserologist

Claude Code leaks its source code, GitHub uptime woes continue, people may become dependent on LLMs, and local LLMs are getting faster. ---------------------------------------- 🔗 Links * Idiocracy Proximity Index [https://idiocracy.wtf] * Claude Code Unpacked [https://ccunpacked.dev] * The Missing GitHub Status Page [https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/] * GitHub’s Historic Uptime [https://damrnelson.github.io/github-historical-uptime/] * Gemma 4 LLM — Unsloth [https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/gemma-4] * Gemma 4 on iPhone: Google AI Edge Gallery [https://apps.apple.com/us/app/google-ai-edge-gallery/id6749645337] * LlamaBarn [https://github.com/ggml-org/LlamaBarn] You can find Justin Mayer on the web at justinmayer.com [https://justinmayer.com] and on the Fediverse at justin.ramble.space [https://ramble.space/@justin]. Dan Jacobson’s homestead on the web is at danj.ca [https://danj.ca].