Andy Jarrett

How LLMs Actually Generate Text (Every Dev Should Know This) YouTube video by LearnThatStack

You probably know this, but well worth a watch either way.

How LLMs Actually Generate Text:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKnZ...

#ai #tokens #llm

Ghostty Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.

Trying out ghostty.org as my terminal tonight after feeling like iTerm2 was eating my battery.

#macOS #cli #terminal

I had forgotten how good the 2013 era MacBook Pro keyboard was to type on.

Stackoverflow questions down 300k questions a month at its peak to practically zero.

And I get it. I don’t know when I was even on there last but it just feels a massive hit to collective experiences in development.

A Beginner’s Guide to Breaking and Entering

Just finished A Beginners Guide To Breaking And Entering

Not the typical type of story I usually go to but my sense of humour all the way through and a random find I wanted to share

#audiobook

open.spotify.com/show/6mrq399...

CloudFlare. Moved all personal projects there now. Slowly moving the domains too.

Creating a LuCLI + Nginx Stack for Lucee CFML How I wired LuCLI, Lucee, and Nginx together with Docker Compose, complete with a simple CFML playground and docs.

First BlueSky post of 2026.

I’ve been playing around with LuCLI (pronounced “Lucee-EL-EYE”) which is basically #Lucee in your terminal. I’ve now got it running inside #Docker with #Nginx in front, and it’s surprisingly smooth.

Find out more here: www.andyjarrett.com/posts/2026/c...

#cfml

Happy new year everyone 🥳🥳 it’s been a quite 2025 for me but hopefully a bit more engaging in 2026

Is your production environment down?

Just generate a fake CloudFlare error page and blame them whilst you restore from backup/fix it

virt.moe/cferr/editor/

GitHub - dbeaver/cloudbeaver: Cloud Database Manager Cloud Database Manager. Contribute to dbeaver/cloudbeaver development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com/dbeaver/clou...

DBeaver in the cloud ... a security nightmare but could be handy too :D

Just pushed a small update on Notes4Me

`npm run summaryonly`

Can now test different prompts for summaries without recording full meetings. Pass it a transcript and see the output in the console.

github.com/andyj/Notes4Me

#Notes4Me #DevTools #AI #Privacy #MacOS #AI

It’s just hard to even comprehend this.

Notes4Me: Your Local-Only Meeting Notetaker for macOS Cloud transcription services are everywhere these days – convenient but risky if you’re handling sensitive conversations or business strategy.

I’ve been tinkering and made little macOS thing:

Notes4Me (on #Github too)

Local recording. Local transcribing. Local summarising.

This means: No cloud. No sub fees. No sending your conversations anywhere.

www.andyjarrett.com/posts/2025/n...

#LocalAI #PrivacyByDesign #BuildInPublic #Notes4Me

GitHub - andyj/Notes4Me: Notes4Me is a private, local-only meeting notetaker for macOS. It records audio through BlackHole, transcribes it with Whisper, and generates clean meeting summaries using a l... Notes4Me is a private, local-only meeting notetaker for macOS. It records audio through BlackHole, transcribes it with Whisper, and generates clean meeting summaries using a local LLM running throu...

I've created a thing.

*Notes4Me*

A privacy-focused macOS menu bar app for recording, transcribing, and summarising (slack,Teams,Zoom, Google meet etc) meetings using local AI processing.

Nothing leave your computer. Uses Ollama for processing and creating summaries.

github.com/andyj/Notes4Me

Damn it 🤬

#too #old #for #this #shit

I suppose what I’m saying is right now is that it’s been about reiteration of over a decade.

Vision Pro is the only exception, but that feels like a technical milestone (like a concept car) than a cultural change.

Not saying he stagnated. His background was logistics and he created an operational behemoth he’s just not a products guy.

I think they just need a modern day Jonny Ive, someone whose vision contrasts with what’s happening today but aligns with tomorrow.

Reinvention over refinement.

I hope they bring back a products guy. Logistically, Cook has transformed Apple and made the what they are but now they need someone to push their products in to the next decade.

iOS call screening has done more for me than most other features recently. My number has obviously been a part of a leak somewhere but it’s not even ringing here.

AWS engineer looking at the blinking lights hoping they start blinking differently

Is this the stupidust headline ever

£3000 = 750 flat whites at £4

That’s 2 a day. Every day. No breaks.

The key take away is: "Apple has also made efforts to release spare parts and manuals for ‌iPhone‌ repair, and has scaled down software locks and restrictions on parts pairing, improving its ‌iPhone‌ repairability scores."

Im not one for tinkering nowadays but it good knowing the option is there now.

Dutch late night TV has its take

How did Apple screw up screen shots on iOS so badly.

I don't hate iOS26 new design but I do agree that I am coming across more instances of "Basic actions require too many taps."

This is a 2012 meme using cartoon versions of old web browser logos (Opera, Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer). What happens: Opera says it can open 30 pages at once. Firefox says 40. Chrome says 50. Then they start boasting about speed. Opera says it’s fast, Firefox says faster, Chrome says faster than both. Internet Explorer stays quiet until the last panel, where it finally says, “I started.” Point: It’s a joke about how Internet Explorer was notoriously slow to start compared to other browsers.

Just found this from 2012(!!) Browser wars were fun times for developers back then. Standards be damned.

#chrome #firefox #opera #internetexplorer

‘Foundation’ Renewed for Season 4 at Apple TV+ The sci-fi series is set to go back into production in early 2026.

Foundation renewed for Season 4

Great news. This and The Expanse have been some of the best sci-fi in years on TV.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/f...

#appletv #theexpanse #foundation

I need a saga. What’s a saga? It’s Songs for the Deaf. You can’t even hear it!

One of the top albums from the 00's