Thoughts on Technology

Automating Production Releases with AI Agents

As part of my ongoing experiments using AI agents, I created two specialized agents that work together to automate an entire release process---from test verification through production deployment. Read more about it here.

"Curate your own newspaper with RSS"

Molly White has a good article about RSS at _Citation Needed_. I've never stopped using RSS, and am happy to see it having a bit of a renaissance.

"Apple announces AppleCare One, a device coverage bundle program"

Dan Moren has a [good write up of AppleCare One at _Six Colors_](https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/07/apple-announces-applecare-one-a-device-coverage-bundle-program/), detailing the new warranty bundle program. The list of the individual AppleCare prices helped me decide if it was a good deal for me.

The M4 MacBook Air (and another rant about the iPad Pro)

Between unhappiness at the continued inflexibility of iPadOS hindering the glorious hardware of the M4 iPad Pro and the release of the new M4 MacBook Air, I've been considering consolidating my personal mobile computing to the new Mac. But one missing thing stopped me cold.