Tao of Mac

Porting Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii

This was not on my bingo card for 2026. The Wii is, indeed, a PowerPC machine, but getting Mac OS X to boot on it still requires a fair amount of kernel hacking—never mind the real(...)

#hacks #mac #nintendo #powerpc #wii

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Notes for March 9–15

Well, there went another work week. Slightly better (to a degree, although I got some discouraging news regarding a potential change), and another week where piclaw ate most of my (...)

#agents #ai #dev #mcp #notes #typescript #weekly

https://taoofmac.com/space/notes/2026/03/15/1900?utm_content=atom&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

MacBook Neo Impressions

I went to a local mall yesterday and happened to chance upon a couple of MacBook Neos on display at our local (monopolistic) Apple retailer1, and spent a half hour playing with the(...)

#a18 #apple #hardware #mac

https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2026/03/15/1430?utm_content=atom&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

MouseControl

MouseControl is a lightweight, open-source utility for remapping Logitech mouse buttons locally.(...)

#logitech #macos #mouse #opensource #windows

https://taoofmac.com/space/apps/mousecontrol?utm_content=atom&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Large Language Models

This page is a collection of notes and links related to large language models (LLMs), their applications, and the underlying technology. It serves as a reference for understanding (...)

#ai #llm

https://taoofmac.com/space/ai/llm?utm_content=atom&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Model Context Protocol

This page is a collection of notes and links related to the Model Context Protocol (MCP), a proposed standard for extending managing context in large language models (LLMs) via ext(...)

#ai #llm #mcp

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LISP

This started out as a mere stub while I put together some more resources, and over the years became a quite large list of LISP implementations I have kept an eye on.(...)

#compilers #functional #implementations #interpreters #language #lisp #programming #resources #scheme

https://taoofmac.com/space/dev/lisp?utm_content=atom&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

AI Speech Technologies

This page is a collection of notes and links related to AI speech technologies, including Text-to-Speech (TTS), Speech-to-Text (STT), voice synthesis, voice cloning, and other rela(...)

#ai #cloning #speech #stt #synthesis #tts #voice #whisper

https://taoofmac.com/space/ai/speech?utm_content=atom&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

CodexBar

CodexBar is a tiny macOS menu bar app that keeps usage windows and reset timers visible for Codex and a growing list of other AI tools.(...)

#ai #apps #claude #codex #cursor #macos #menubar

https://taoofmac.com/space/apps/codexbar?utm_content=atom&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Obsidian

Obsidian is a very popular cross-platform note-taking application that allows you to use plain Markdown as a very flexible notes database and that I have somewhat begrudgingly adop(...)

#electron #markdown #notes #zettelkasten

https://taoofmac.com/space/apps/obsidian?utm_content=atom&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

TypeScript

TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that adds static typing, decorators, enums and enough opinions to keep larger teams from spiraling into duck-typed chaos.(...)

#languages #programming #resources #scripting

https://taoofmac.com/space/dev/typescript?utm_content=atom&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

ESP8266 (and ESP32)

These little modules have taken hobby electronics by storm, so of course I grabbed a few of them and have been hacking away quietly on both the ESP8266 and the ESP32.(...)

#electronics #esp32 #esp8266 #expressif #hardware #mcu #microcontrollers #resources

https://taoofmac.com/space/hw/esp8266?utm_content=atom&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

GhostMD

GhostMD is a native macOS note-taking app that feels like Ghostty—GPU-accelerated via GPUI, keyboard-first, monospace, and zero-config. Notes are just .md files in ~/Documents/ghos(...)

#apps #editor #gpui #keyboardfirst #macos #markdown

https://taoofmac.com/space/apps/ghostmd?utm_content=atom&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

HomeKit

HomeKit is Apple’s home automation solution, which revolves around the Home Accessory Protocol (HAP).(...)

#apple #homeautomation

https://taoofmac.com/space/com/apple/homekit?utm_content=atom&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Apple TV

Apple’s Apple TV is the company’s media-centric set-top box, originally shipped in 2007 as a streaming appliance and now evolved into a hub for tvOS apps, AirPlay, and HomeKit-awar(...)

#apple #homeentertainment

https://taoofmac.com/space/com/apple/tv?utm_content=atom&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Even Realities

Even Realities builds smart glasses without any cameras or intrusive features and that look like very normal glasses.(...)

#hardware #privacy #smartglasses #wearables

https://taoofmac.com/space/hw/even?utm_content=atom&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

So You Want To Do Agentic Development

We’re three months into 2026, and coding agents have been a big part of my time since last year–things have definitely intensified, and one of my predictions has already panned out(...)

#agents #ai #coding #dev #editors #security

https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2026/03/08/2130?utm_content=atom&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Notes for March 2–8

This was a frankly absurd week work-wise, with some pretty long days and a lot of late-night hacking on my projects (which is not exactly a new thing, but at least now I am asking (...)

#agents #ai #dev #notes #security #typescript #weekly

https://taoofmac.com/space/notes/2026/03/08/1900?utm_content=atom&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

TIL: Claude Opus 4.6 Can Reverse Engineer STL Files

So, I finally got around to opening the Maclock I’ve had sitting around for a while, and I was looking at the STL files for the screen bracket that are over on Printables.(...)

#3d #3dprinting #ai #engineering #mesh #openscad #reverse #stl #til

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