
Jack Fields
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Jack Fields
@OrdinaryInds
Former Apple engineer running Ordinary Industries // Head writer at @kernelext // Polymath // I use Vim btw


If Apple Notes supported Markdown it might be my favorite piece of software I use day to day.

Fun fact ! The MX Master 3S has 8gb of RAM, this is an upgrade from the 3, which only had 4gb of RAM.


Watch a team of humanoid robots running a full 8-hr shift at human performance levels. This is fully autonomous running Helix-02 x.com/i/broadcasts/1…


apple just updated their human interface guidelines and double downed on the top left close button for an iphone 17 pro max crazy stuff. the folks that decide these things must be giants


how do teams actually share .env variables securely because the options I see are - Slack DM (terrible) - email (worse) - shared Notion doc (somehow even worse) - 1Password or similar - something I'm missing



Tired of holding your laptop half open to keep your agents running? Introducing AgentPlug: A USB-C dummy plug that keeps your Mac in clamshell mode by pretending to be an external display! No commands, no security worries (just pull it out to stop!), no hassle.

A lot of people are arguing that HTML burns more tokens than markdown. It's true but you can save at least 40% by externalizing the CSS to a template with . This style.css is your formatting so the LLM will never output CSS again. I tested on a 12116 token HTML article and it dropped to 6,723 tokens so -44%! You'll have this:
Hello, world.
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