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Jeremy recounts how organizing 1,351 old family photos led him to create a personal encyclopedia using MediaWiki, enriched by interviews, metadata, and AI models like Claude Code. This project evolved into whoami.wiki, an open-source platform that compiles personal data into interconnected, Wikipedia-style pages to preserve memories, genealogies, and stories, all running locally to keep user data private.
Joe Rosensteel critiques Apple's Siri integration with Shortcuts automation, highlighting the lack of transparency, documentation, and debugging tools that make reliable automation difficult. He argues that without inspectable, deterministic workflows and proper logging, both users and AI assistants like Siri struggle to troubleshoot and refine automations, limiting their effectiveness and reliability.
https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/03/how-can-siri-automate-shortcuts-when-its-so-opaque/
This article analyzes Apple's device charging behavior, showing that charging speed varies in three phases—fast constant current up to 50%, tapered current to 80%, then slow trickle charge to 100%—with only the first phase significantly benefiting from a better charger. It highlights how iPhones and iPads have different optimal charging wattages, and stresses that heat and time at 100% charge impact battery health far more than charge speed, with features like Optimized Battery Charging designed to minimize battery wear by reducing time spent at full charge.
MarsEdit 5.4.2 has been released, bringing extended synced spell check options to more text fields, restoring the photo icon in the Micropost panel, and fixing several bugs including incorrect “Edited Date” display and crash reporter issues. The update is available on the MarsEdit website and Mac App Store.
https://redsweater.com/blog/4267/marsedit-5-4-2-more-spell-check-syncing
Usher 2.4 has been released with interface updates for macOS 26, a new slider to set thumbnail spacing, and improved support for animated GIFs by temporarily converting them into movie files for editing. The update also fixes two crashing bugs related to cropping files with custom aspect ratios and menu changes in macOS 26.4, ensuring a more stable and user-friendly experience.
Inoreader has introduced automated intelligence reports that analyze multiple articles using custom or predefined prompts on a schedule set by the user, helping to extract key insights efficiently. These reports are saved as new articles for easy annotation, sharing, or export, supporting various workflows like daily briefings, topic monitoring, and competitive analysis, and are available as an add-on for Pro, Custom, and Team Intelligence plans.