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MiniMusic is my little menu bar app for controlling Apple Music from the keyboard: global hotkey, type, return, music. The new release, MiniMusic 26.716.1, is the biggest one yet, because the search box got a brain. Search that understands what you meant Until now, search did what search boxes do: match the characters you typed. The new version runs every query through Apple’s on-device Foundation Models first — the same Apple Intelligence stack that powers Writing Tools — and turns it into a structured search intent before hitting the Apple Music API. Everything happens on the Mac itself: no cloud round-trip, nothing leaves the machine, and it works on a plane. ...

Everyone worries about AI making things up or refusing to answer. The trickier failure is the calm, balanced-sounding answer that treats settled science and bad-faith contrarianism as a coin flip. Here’s how to spot it and ask your way past it.

Nine months of going all-in on AI-assisted development at StackHawk: the ramp-up, the custom tooling, and what actually made it stick.