A native launcher I built with Claude Code to replace Alfred 5 after it froze. ⌘Space, a few letters, ↩: apps, commands, URLs, folders and file filters.

A native PDF app I built with Claude Code to replace PDF Squeezer and Nitro PDF Pro: view, compress, fill, sign, redact and rearrange, 1 key per tool.

How to keep Ambilight, let Apple TV do everything else, and stop a Philips Google TV from tracking what you watch: offline, LAN-only, or debloated with CleanYourTV.

A local tool I built with Claude Code that finds the payments on my company's bank account that miss a receipt, matches each one with invoice files I already have, and uploads them only after I approve every match.

Press 1 button on the scanner and the page ends up OCR'd, named, filed and searchable. OCR and the AI run locally on my Mac, so nothing leaves the house.

When a person is detected outside, a window opens on my Mac with the live camera stream and the latest clips. It shows in about 1 s, where the old web app took 10 to 20 s.

A native menu bar app I built with Claude Code to replace CleanShot X: 1 key for a window, a display or an area, the frozen screen up in about 56 ms, the file on disk 21 ms after the click.

A native rules engine I built with Claude Code to replace Hazel. It renames, moves and runs scripts on new files, never deletes, and can undo every move.

A native Mac app I had my AI agent build to replace Pulltube. 1 hotkey downloads the video in my browser tab, 2x faster than Pulltube, with 8x less memory.

Yubico's USB-C and NFC security key: how it stops phishing, how it puts a human touch in front of AI agents, a hardening cheatsheet, GPG keys with an offline backup, and what it costs. €69.02, and you need 2.

Moonshot AI's 2.8T-parameter open-weight model, released 23rd October 2026: 1M-token context, close to Claude Opus 5.5 on coding and agent benchmarks, at $2/$10 per million tokens.

Teenage Engineering's pocket field recorder with a motorised tape-reel wheel: multitrack recording, 3 stereo I/O jacks, 128 GB, transcription app. €1,499.

Block's full-duplex speech-to-speech model, trained only on recorded human conversation, with no text: it laughs, interrupts and hears emotion. Runs on a MacBook Pro.

OpenID Connect explained plainly: short-lived signed tokens instead of permanent API keys, why Vercel wants to kill static credentials, and what it means for AI agents.

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 take on the integrated-bracelet sports watch that Gérald Genta created with the Royal Oak in 1972. I pre-ordered the 40 mm in Nordic Blue.

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.

Ben AI's summary of Anthropic's guidance on effort: it sets how much Claude reads, checks and decides alone, not how smart it is. Low, medium, high and max, and when to use each.

The Geneva designer behind the Royal Oak, the Nautilus and the Ingenieur SL, who made steel a luxury material. His life, his icons by year, his method and his legacy.

What makes Japanese raw selvedge denim different, the brands worth knowing and what they're known for, how to choose a pair, and where to buy it in Munich.

Owner-run made-to-measure tailor in Munich since 1996: suits from €649, shirts from €99, jeans in Japanese selvedge denim, made in Europe with a fit guarantee.

Red Wing's plain-toe 6-inch work boot in Copper Rough & Tough leather: Goodyear welt, No. 8 last, Vibram 430 sole, made in Minnesota. €409 at the German Red Wing stores.

Where to get clothes made to measure: jeans, shirts, Tracht and casual wear in and north of Munich, and suits, shirts and jeans in London. Exact addresses and maps.

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.