Bought a bag of pears 3 weeks ago and they're still hard as rocks. Really looking forward to that 8 hour window next week when they all simultaneously ripen before rotting the following day.

At first glance, it looks like Apple has provided podcasts hosts no documented way to host video for their podcasts except through a third-party hosting provider. Boo. podcasters.apple.com/support/5593-how-to-publish-video

One year into living with Tesla Full-Self Driving and: it's good.

The improvement from v13 to v14 is remarkable. Tap Start and it pulls out of the garage, drives you, and parks itself. Another tap and it drives home, opens garage, parks itself. More advanced than people assume.

I'm developing apps for Apple platforms for the first time in 16 years so stop me if this is nuts, but the best feedback loops I've managed are when I've made the Mac build the primary one. No simulator jank. No waiting on devices.

Claude Code doing a better job self-verifying

I like my doctor but his office is always full of sick people.

PSA: iPhone Air's microphone is located on the left side of the bottom edge of the device, AKA where a right-handed person's pinky would naturally rest when gripping the phone with one hand.

Anyway, that's why all your videos sound like shit. You're holding it wrong.

Added a /prove skill to my prove_it library. It pushes Claude Code to go beyond merely analyzing source and running tests to demonstrate the code is working.

Example: it spun up a complete example project and ACTUALLY proved my cached test runner works github.com/searlsco/prove_it

Free idea: hyperbolic_links.

Let users create symbolic links mapped to HTTP resources. Since you can't literally link a file to a URL without changing the actual file system, hyperbolic would centrally handle journaling, cache/etag, updates.

My prove_it CLI is already proving valuable. Just watched Opus 4.6 complete an hourlong rewrite without me… ONLY because 6 times prove_it's own script & agent hooks blocked Claude from prematurely declaring victory. It's letting me focus on WHAT, not HOW github.com/searlsco/prove_it

"3 things: reusable rockets, AI via satellite; and a real-time free speech platform. Rockets, space-based AI, and free speech. Rockets, AI…are you getting it? These are not three separate companies, this is one company, and we're calling it SpaceXXX" spacex.com/updates#xai-joins-spacex

I do not miss thinking hard jernesto.com/articles/thinking_hard

A recurring theme in coverage on the effect AI will have on wealth/income inequality suggests there's a strong case to be made that AI is going to be bad for poor people.

I have nothing useful to add to that discussion, so here's a word I just invented: Agentrification

Two new searlsbrew projects today:

• prove_it: verification-oriented baseline rules and hooks for Claude Code github.com/searlsco/prove_it
• scrapple: scrapes and indexes Apple's SDK docs/videos/sample code github.com/searlsco/scrapple