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Changelog: 26 September to 12 October
72 releases across 23 apps. Jorvik Daily News gets keyboard navigation, on-device translation and Boss Mode. WindowPin can crop a pin to part of a window. ActiveSpace can name spaces. Nomen is new. In every app, the About and Settings windows now open on the current space. MenuTidy users must check for updates manually once.
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Announcing Nomen: AI Screenshot Renamer
Every screenshot on my Mac was called Screenshot, followed by a timestamp. Nomen renames a screenshot by what it shows, a few seconds after I take it, using the model Apple now ships inside macOS, so nothing leaves the Mac.
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My AI Had Amnesia, So I Built It a Memory
Claude can refactor a Metal renderer at 2am and forget the entire estate by morning. Here is how I gave it a permanent, self-maintaining memory of all of Jorvik Software — three layers, one local LLM running on my own machine, zero cloud, and a fistful of bugs that lied to my face along the way.
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The Details Are the Software
Tugboat is an internal-only tool, used by exactly one person, and almost nobody will ever see its menu-bar icon. I reworked that icon anyway, so it shows — in real time — which edge of the screen the Dock is actually living on. This is a post about the smallest of details: why they matter, why they're the line between hand-crafted code and AI slop, and the other invisible little things scattered across the Jorvik suite.
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The Column I Couldn't Copy
Last week I needed to copy a single column out of an HTML table in an email, and discovered that the boring solution — copy the whole table, paste it somewhere, trim it back — is a fifteen-second tax on a one-second intention. So I built CopyLens. Draw a rectangle anywhere on screen; if there's text inside, it lands on the clipboard as text. If not, the cropped image does. Same gesture, two outcomes. Plus a full-disclosure note about how the OCR engine actually got built, which wasn't by me.
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Power Tools
AI slop is real. The backlash is understandable. But there's a difference between throwing paint at a wall and using a better brush — and I think it's worth talking about.
AI
Artificial intelligence: using it, building with it, arguing about it. 6 notes.