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  • Mac Studio as a Family Photo AI — Find Any Memory in Seconds

    Jun 28, 2026

    • Jakub Jirák

    How to build local AI photo search on a Mac Studio. Apple Photos semantic search tips, CLIP-based natural-language indexing of 100k+ photo libraries, deduplication of decades of camera rolls, and a weekend project plan.

    photo-managementapple-siliconcliplocal-ai
  • AI coding workflows: Pair-with-AI rituals that survive a team of ten

    Jun 28, 2026

    • Jakub Jirák

    A field-tested take on pair-with-AI rituals that survive a team of ten with AI coding workflows: what it rewards, where it breaks, and how to keep the workflow honest.

    ai-workflowdeveloper-productivityai-codingsoftware-engineering
  • Technologies That Will Disappear Within Five Years

    Jun 28, 2026

    • Jakub Jirák

    Some everyday technologies are living on borrowed time. From charging cables to passwords to physical SIM cards, here's what's disappearing by 2031—and.

    technologyfutureinnovationdigital-trendspredictions
  • The Country That Will Win AI Without Building a Single Model

    Jun 27, 2026

    • Jakub Jirák

    Singapore, the UAE, and a few other nations are becoming AI application hubs and compute centers without competing in frontier model development — and winning.

    geopoliticsartificial-intelligencesingaporeuaestrategy
  • I Connected AI to My Smart Home Through a Mac Studio

    Jun 27, 2026

    • Jakub Jirák

    How to connect a local LLM to Home Assistant and HomeKit using a Mac Studio as an always-on smart home brain. Fully local voice pipeline with Whisper, context-aware automations, latency versus Siri and Alexa, and honest setup complexity.

    home-assistantlocal-llmmac-studiosmart-home
  • Prompt engineering for code: Difference between role prompts and persona cosplay

    Jun 27, 2026

    • Jakub Jirák

    A field-tested take on the difference between role prompts and persona cosplay with Prompt engineering for code: what it rewards, where it breaks, and how to keep the workflow honest.

    prompt-engineeringai-codingdeveloper-productivitysoftware-engineering
  • The Best Technology Investments Aren't Gadgets, but Habits

    Jun 27, 2026

    • Jakub Jirák

    The most valuable tech investments aren't the latest gadgets but the habits that make any technology work for you. Learn the habits that multiply your.

    productivityhabitstechnologydigital-wellnessmindset
  • Why the 'AGI Is Near' Crowd Is Both Completely Right and Catastrophically Wrong

    Jun 26, 2026

    • Jakub Jirák

    The AGI debate consumes enormous intellectual energy, but the combatants are using different definitions of 'general intelligence' — making the argument largely incoherent.

    agiartificial-general-intelligenceai-safetyphilosophymachine-learning
  • The AI Email Workflow That Saves Me 5 Hours Every Week

    Jun 26, 2026

    • Jakub Jirák

    A realistic AI email workflow on Mac using Apple Mail, Shortcuts, and a local LLM. Includes a reusable personal style prompt, templates for the four most common reply types, and an honest hour-by-hour breakdown of the time saved.

    email-productivitylocal-llmapple-shortcutsmac-workflow
  • Cline and Roo Code: Routing cheap models for boilerplate, frontier models for design

    Jun 26, 2026

    • Jakub Jirák

    A field-tested take on routing cheap models for boilerplate, frontier models for design with Cline and Roo Code: what it rewards, where it breaks, and how to keep the workflow honest.

    clineroo-codeai-codingsoftware-engineering
  • Apple vs. the Open World: Does the Walled Garden Still Make Sense?

    Jun 26, 2026

    • Jakub Jirák

    Apple's walled garden faces mounting pressure from regulators and competitors. We analyze whether closed ecosystems still deliver value or have become.

    appletechnologyopen-sourceecosystemprivacy
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