Coyote Tracks: The Blog

2026

• August 13: The Case of the Robot Web Thief
• August 7: AI’s Chicken Sandwich Problem
• July 7: Bring Back the Insert Key on Emacs
• May 25: The Best Worst Email Client
• April 27: Soylent Confessions
• April 16: Ready for the Revolution
• April 6: “How are you leveraging AI in your technical writing?”
• March 15: What You’re Allowed to Do
• February 18: “Trim Silence”: Threat or Menace?
• February 10: Is AI Helping You to Do Work, or Just to Do Stuff?

2025

• December 7: Emacs and Shortcuts
• November 21: Apple Wins Me Over Again, but It’s Getting Tougher
• November 4: The Emacs for Everything Obsession
• October 23: Collaboration or Privacy: Pick One
• October 15: If Not the Mac, What?
• August 20: Seriously, Markdown
• August 5: It’s the Heat and the Humidity; Also, the Fascism
• June 4: Dr. Neckbeard, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Emacs
• May 12: Maybe the Waiting Is Actually the Easiest Part
• April 14: The Robots Have Come for Your Em Dashes
• March 31: What Makes an App Feel “Right” on the Mac?
• March 24: Having to Think About Essential Computerness
• March 17: Just Slap an LLM on the Front End—How Hard Can It Be?
• March 10: The Reluctant Technologist
• January 24: The Pressure to Stay Genteel

2024

• November 26: Platforms Are Not Neutral
• October 8: On Evacuations and Hurricanes
• September 18: Generative AI Comes for Imaginary Friends
• August 26: How Much of Yourself Do You Put Online?
• August 2: Conservatives Are the Real Snowflakes
• July 29: It Could Be Burnout
• May 23: Creative Writing and AI’s Failure Modes
• May 3: Judge the AI That Exists, Not the AI You Imagine

2023

• July 20: A Year Back in Florida
• July 10: You’re So Vain, You Probably Think This App Is About You: On Meta and Mastodon

2022

• November 22: Twitter, Failure Modes, and Your Favorite Bar
• July 15: Thoughts on Leaving California

2021

• July 19: BBEdit 14, and Why You Should Care
• July 17: Panic’s Nova, Ten Months In
• June 10: A Quick Unofficial Apple Music Spatial Audio FAQ
• June 8: A Quick Unofficial Apple Music Lossless FAQ
• April 27: The Peril of “No Politics”
• April 21: The Mac and the iPad Aren’t Meeting in the Middle Yet

2020

• October 1: A Brief Chat About Chuck Wendig, the Internet Archive, and Bad Information Spread in Good Faith
• September 17: Panic’s Nova Text Editor (a Review)
• March 20: Signs of the Old Apple

2019

• October 13: Notes From the Road
• August 12: The iPad Needs More Focus on the Little Things
• July 12: Review: Brydge 12.9″ Keyboard Pro
• May 17: Random (but Not Angry) Thoughts on ‘Game of Thrones’
• April 13: Medium Thinks It’s a Brand
• February 5: Dan Olson on Patreon
• February 5: A Digression About Facebook

2018

• December 4: Let’s Talk About the Tumblrpocalypse
• November 16: The New iPad Pro
• November 14: Low Cognitive Load Blogging
• September 13: Apple’s Topsy-Turvy iPhone Lineup

2016

• December 16: Form Over Frolic: Jony Ive’s Quest for Boring Perfection
• December 7: Bubbles, Baseball, and Mr. Marsh

2011

• May 4: Text Editor Intervention