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April 5

  • The 2006 Black MacBook
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    • 8 min read

    A £40 Gumtree find with a dead battery. How a 2006 black MacBook became one of the most enjoyable computers I own.

  • Hunting Down Apple's Lost Hall of Fame
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    • 5 min read

    Apple spent years profiling creative professionals on their website — filmmakers, musicians, photographers, scientists. Then they deleted all of it. I tried to find them.

  • Building This Site on a 2008 MacBook
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    • 3 min read

    How a frustrating afternoon trying to SSH into a Mac Mini and run local AI models ended with a 2008 MacBook doing everything we needed all along.

  • 2,827 Notes, 11,273 Attachments, and a Folder on My Desktop
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    • 5 min read

    How I extracted years of Apple Notes using Claude Code, a Swift CLI, and eventually just letting Apple do the hard part.

  • Glancy: Building My First iOS App
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    • 5 min read

    How a frustration with clunky CGM apps turned into my first iOS build and a brand new Glance Mode built for the road.