Ai

macOS 27 shipped the feature I’d been waiting years for: a semantic index of my life, built on my own machine, covering mail and messages and notes and calendar, with a Siri able to reason across it instead of pattern-matching one app at a time. Personal context, on-device, nothing uploaded. Exactly the right architecture, and I was genuinely excited about it. Then I tried to use it. The index is real and it’s sitting on my SSD, and nothing outside Apple can get at it. No CLI, no SDK, no API. Not even an entitlement to apply for and be refused. The door isn’t locked so much as it was never cut into the wall. ...

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.