Tag: automation
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Flic Hub LR and buttons: a smart home still needs a physical click
A practical review of Flic Hub LR and Flic buttons, focused on physical interaction, push actions, local and cloud paths, latency, range, battery life, FlicScript, Matter, reliability, and pricing.
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MacBook Pro M5: Where Raw Performance Stopped Being the Whole Story
The M5 MacBook Pro marks a turning point where performance gains matter less than what we lose—skills, judgment, and the ability to think without.
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The Year AI Grew Up: From Toy to Infrastructure
Exploring how 2026 became the inflection point where AI shifted from experimental toy to critical infrastructure—and what we lost in the process of.
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Why More Automation Often Makes People Worse
Explore the counterintuitive truth about automation and skill degradation. Learn why powerful tools can erode capabilities, how to recognize automation.
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Apple Shortcuts for Normal People: 10 Automations You'll Actually Use
Ten genuinely useful Apple Shortcuts for everyday iPhone users - the triggers that run them, share sheet tricks, and automations that fire on their own.
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How to Build a Private Smart Home With Apple Home and Skip the Cloud
How to build a private smart home with Apple Home - why local control beats the cloud, the home hub you need, Matter and Thread explained, and what to buy.
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Apple Vision Pro After One Year: Product of the Future or Dead End?
One year review of Apple Vision Pro reveals the paradox of modern tech: tools promising the future may erode the skills we need most. An analysis of.
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The Freelancer's AI Stack — Run Your Whole Business From a MacBook
A complete AI stack for freelancers on a MacBook. Proposal drafting prompts, invoice automation with Shortcuts, local Whisper meeting transcription, contract review, and bookkeeping with LLM-generated pandas — with real time savings and costs.
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The Quiet Extinction of the Software Engineer as We Knew It
AI is automating a specific kind of programming: translating requirements into code for known domains. Here's what that actually means for the job market.
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How to Automate Your Personal Workflow with Python
Learn to automate repetitive tasks with Python. From file organization to email processing, web scraping to data transforms, this practical guide shows.
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Why AI Will Never Replace Lawyers (And That's Not the Point)
AI is transforming law not by replacing lawyers but by commoditizing routine legal work, creating a barbell profession of high-judgment experts and AI operators.
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Apple Shortcuts + AI Is the Automation Stack Nobody Talks About
How to combine Apple Shortcuts with Ollama, ChatGPT, and Claude to automate summarization, voice memos, OCR, and daily briefings on Mac and iPhone. Includes the exact JSON body for calling Ollama's local API and a Tailscale setup for cross-device shortcuts.
