Coyote Tracks - Blog (original) (raw)
Articles, essays, and assorted ephemera
2026
- April 27: Soylent Confessions
- April 16: Ready for the revolution
- April 6: “How are you leveraging AI in your technical writing?”
- March 15: What you’re allowed to do
- February 18: “Trim Silence”: Threat or menace?
- February 10: Is AI helping you to do work, or just to do stuff?
2025
- December 7: Emacs and Shortcuts
- November 21: Apple wins me over again, but it’s getting tougher
- November 4: The Emacs for everything obsession
- October 23: Collaboration or privacy: pick one
- October 15: If not the Mac, what?
- August 20: Seriously, Markdown
- August 5: It’s the heat and the humidity; also, the fascism
- June 4: Dr. Neckbeard, or how I learned to stop worrying and love Emacs
- May 12: Maybe the waiting is actually the easiest part
- April 14: The robots have come for your em dashes
- March 31: What makes an app feel “right” on the Mac?
- March 24: Having to think about essential computerness
- March 17: Just slap an LLM on the front end—how hard can it be?
- March 10: The Reluctant Technologist
- January 24: The pressure to stay genteel
2024
- November 26: Platforms are not neutral
- October 8: On evacuations and hurricanes
- September 18: Generative AI comes for imaginary friends
- August 26: How much of yourself do you put online?
- August 2: Conservatives are the real snowflakes
- July 29: It could be burnout
- May 23: Creative writing and AI’s failure modes
- May 3: Judge the AI that exists, not the AI you imagine
2023
- July 20: A year back in Florida
- July 10: You’re So Vain, You Probably Think This App Is About You: On Meta and Mastodon
2022
- November 22: Twitter, failure modes, and your favorite bar
- July 15: Thoughts on Leaving California
2021
- July 19: BBEdit 14, and why you should care
- July 17: Panic’s Nova, ten months in
- June 10: A quick unofficial Apple Music Spatial Audio FAQ
- June 8: A quick unofficial Apple Music Lossless FAQ
- April 27: The Peril of “No Politics”
- April 21: The Mac and the iPad aren’t meeting in the middle yet
2020
- October 1: A brief chat about Chuck Wendig, the Internet Archive, and bad information spread in good faith
- September 17: Panic’s Nova text editor (a review)
- March 20: Signs of the old Apple
2019
- October 13: Notes from the Road
- August 12: The iPad needs more focus on the little things
- July 12: Review: Brydge 12.9″ Keyboard Pro
- May 17: Random (but not angry) thoughts on ‘Game of Thrones’
- April 13: Medium thinks it’s a brand
- February 5: Dan Olson on Patreon
- February 5: A digression about Facebook
2018
- December 4: Let’s talk about the Tumblrpocalypse
- November 16: The new iPad Pro
- November 14: Low cognitive load blogging
- September 13: Apple’s topsy-turvy iPhone lineup
2016
- December 16: Form over frolic: Jony Ive’s quest for boring perfection
- December 7: Bubbles, Baseball, and Mr. Marsh
2011
- May 4: Text Editor Intervention
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