Stammy

Better late than never. I wrote 9,313 words for my 2025 year in review. Sold my house, left my last startup Limitless, took a few months off, quit caffeine, had my 2nd year of no alcohol, became obsessed with Claude Code, and started fresh at Sesame. paulstamatiou.com/2025-year-in-r…

Little big detail: When you stop a download in Safari, the file’s creation date is set to January 24, 1984, the day Steve Jobs introduced the original Macintosh.

@AnjneyMidha Yea codex is great. feels like it needs far less babysitting too. I regularly have it go off building for 30+ min at a time

after several moments this week with claude bugging out with 'Interrupted · What should Claude do instead?' i gave the latest Codex a shot and i have to say, the openai team has done a remarkable job with the latest mac client on stability and reliability

@subebark I *think* I had been there once before maybe 15 years ago for some YC or tech event

@Stammy Been wanting to go there. After all the years you've been in the bay area, was this your first time there?

if you’re in the bay area, the computer history museum is absolutely worth a visit

@jack Posted the exact same minute 👌

five words. 20 years. unfinished.

@romainhuet Been doing that all week and running codex on it now - very capable! paulstamatiou.com/gear/apple-mac…

Time to take Codex for a spin on the MacBook Neo!

@cursor_ai just updated to it @ryolu_ looking good! nice and simple

We're also sharing an early alpha of our new interface. cursor.com/glass

Composer 2 is now available in Cursor.

@NatHalberstadt this is wifi but it has been bulletproof in my experience for years now, even printing from phone. and it's tiny, i fold it up and put it in a drawer when not in use paulstamatiou.com/gear/canon-pix…

I really need a printer that has zero screen, wifi, or bluetooth connection. I just want to be able to plug a usb cord printer --> computer Hit print, and have it actually work every time

@elizlaraki re: "Why not start with one, AI-fueled omni-box that can handle both" I think they tried that with Google Photos and it was so bad they had to include a setting so you could revert it to get good, fast photos search back. 🫣

I was an early designer on Google Maps. I still use it everyday. The Maps AI update is awesome b/c natural language has the potential to solve Maps' oldest limitations. And not so awesome b/c "Ask Maps" feels tacked on instead of deeply integrating AI into Maps. Here's why: — Google Maps was built around discrete searches. This works well for simple tasks like Where is… or How do I get to… "548 Market St." But many real-world navigation challenges aren’t simple queries. They involve intention and tradeoffs. My actual thinking is something more like: "I need to get to 548 Market St and find parking nearby. I’m happy to walk a block or two if it saves $20, but these shoes will likely give me blisters if I have to walk too far." Historically, I had to translate that into Maps’ UI with a series of separate searches like: "548 Market St" then "Parking" But by the time I see parking places, 548 Market St has disappeared. So I have to scan the results and pop back and forth between searches to find a solution. Natural language has the power to fix this. AI gives users the power to describe what’s actually in their head instead of translating it into sequential queries for the Maps UI. How amazing would it be to tell Maps: "I’m on my way to Tahoe with my family. I want to stop at an In-N-Out near a freeway exit and a fast charger. But I want to stop later in the trip since I have plenty of charge and nobody’s hungry yet. What are my best options?" It’s exactly these kinds of tradeoffs (distance, timing, price, convenience, etc.) that AI should excel at handling. — But Google isn’t revolutionizing Maps with an all-powerful, natural language input box. Instead, it cleared some pixels to add an “Ask Maps” button that serves as a portal into Gemini. So now Google Maps has two search boxes: 1. Classic Search 2. Ask Maps AI This makes the UI more complex. And it misses the opportunity to deeply integrate AI into Google Maps so that it feels native. Why not start with one, AI-fueled omni-box that can handle both: “548 Market St” and "I am heading to 548 Market St and running late. I need a place to park and get into the building ASAP!" — The promise of AI is to make things simpler. Giving people the ability to express the nuance in our heads is a first step. Hopefully the next step is using AI to augment and improve Maps’ core tasks natively. And for the steps after that, I really hope the team is dreaming big! I would love to see some of the bolder integrations that I’m sure the team explored internally.

@lisaawrites x.com/lovandfear/sta…

I love people with ADHD because they never actually forget anything. You just have to say the right words to activate them like a sleeper cell and then they awaken with all of the knowledge on a very niche subject they studied for 3 months straight 6 years ago.

@samhenrigold purchased!

Blessed by the GOAT apps.apple.com/us/app/wirevie…

@benguild @DylanMcD8 Hrm not yet mine does get a bit warm on the bottom when pushing it. but there was that MacBook Air thermal pad mod some folks did. Wonder if same applies to the Neo..

@DylanMcD8 lol @Stammy did you run into this?

Okay so apparently there's no thermal pad on MacBook Neo (why?), so it doesn't get hot externally. Explains why Photos keeps saying "Mac needs to cool down" LOL

thoughts on the MacBook Neo paulstamatiou.com/gear/apple-mac…

@darylginn building my own on the side. just drag screenshots or videos in hosted on my Mac mini, accessible only to me on all my devices via tailscale

@daniel__designs Happy birthday!

36 today! New m5 MacBook Air to celebrate

@majouji really solid so far. considerably lighter than my 14" MBP. have done some light vibecoding on it this morning and haven't hit any real issues.

@Stammy How are you liking it so far? Tempted to get one as a little couch and travel laptop

his & hers macbook neos

@danshipper And chrome now has vertical tabs. it’s time to go back to chrome x.com/stammy/status/…

chrome goes agent-native!! yuge. might get me to switch back

@anooj ah interesting. Haven’t noticed but will keep an eye out

@Stammy It made my CPU spike when playing videos so I turned it off.

more importantly, Chrome 146 finally has vertical tabs! Enable it in chrome://flags, relaunch, then right-click on the tab bar and set it to vertical