British direct-to-consumer watch brand, founded 2004, made in Biel. Its history, movements and full lineup, with a focus on The Twelve 660.

Christopher Ward's 38 mm integrated-bracelet watch in Nordic Blue: 9.95 mm, Sellita SW200-2 Power+ with 65 h, date, 100 m. €1,555 on the bracelet. My #1 watch on the radar.

Christopher Ward's 6.6 mm integrated-bracelet dress watch: 38 mm, hand-wound modified Sellita SW210, hours and minutes only. €1,925 on the steel bracelet.

Mühle-Glashütte's 40 mm pilot-style field watch: 10 mm thin, Mühle-modified SW 200-1 with woodpecker neck regulation, 100 m. €1,650 on the bracelet.

Rust, the memory-safe systems language: history, how ownership works, why AI infrastructure is moving to it, and how it plugs into Python.

Conway Research's open English speech-to-text model: Parakeet-level accuracy in a 163 MB file, built for the local Underdog assistant, CC-BY-4.0.

Alfred, the macOS launcher I use daily: what it does, how workflows work, and my own setup since 2020.

A native menu bar app I built with Claude Code to replace Trickster. 1 hotkey copies the path of the file I just saved and opens my recent files.

Give every website its own address on your domain, receive it all in 1 mailbox, and reply from the alias the sender used. Setup for the provider, DNS and each mail client.

keeping track of apps I currently use, have used and on my radar

current snapshot

a great deal for Mac power users

joining the community of home office enthusiasts.

From the Claude app to terminal windows, to herdr, to my own macOS command centre for about 50 Claude Code sessions. Every feature, screenshots and a performance review.

netcup, the Karlsruhe hosting company behind some of the cheapest KVM servers in Europe: products, prices, locations and trade-offs.

A native macOS music player I had my AI agent build to replace Audirvana: bit-perfect local playback, ReplayGain on every track, my Sonos speakers as 1 group, Apple Music for discovery, and 5x less memory.

Autonomous' $299 square touchscreen shows every Claude Code, Codex or Cursor session on every machine, and takes the next task by voice. It runs on the free, open-source Harness app.

Skill graphs link agent skills with typed edges (depends on, specialises, conflicts with) so retrieval brings the prerequisites too. What the 2026 research shows, and where it doesn't help.

The original 295 USD Blackmagic switcher I ran from 2020 to October 2026, what it did, what it never got, and why software on my Mac replaced it.

A native Mac recorder with OBS-style scenes: 1 Stream Deck key sets up the screen, the camera and the mic, and records. It replaces OBS, which I used for more than 10 years, and my agents can drive every part of it. Built with Claude Code.

Theo Browne's free, MIT-licensed GUI for the coding agents already on your machine: threads, branches, diffs and PRs in 1 place, on desktop, web and phone.

A native text editor that replaces TextMate as my clipboard scratchpad. Against TextMate, CotEditor, Sublime Text and TextEdit, it wins 12 of 16 speed and memory measures.

Paper Instruments' model for finance, legal and consulting work: GLM-5.3 Flash plus reinforcement learning on rubric-graded tasks, at $0.13 a task. Works in Claude Code.

A native Mac app that keys my green wall in real time, follows the daylight all day, keeps me solid even with green on my glasses, and shows up in any call app as a camera called Webcamee. It replaces the ATEM Mini on my desk. Built with Claude Code.

Caps Lock to talk, a live transcript while I speak, clean text pasted where the cursor is. Everything runs on my Mac Studio. Built with Claude Code in 22 prompts.