I’ll wait until Jersey corn is available. There are definite charms to living in southern New Jersey, including the tomatoes and corn in the summer. And the blue claw crabs, which we were going to make tonight but decided on grilling some chicken drums instead. Maybe I’ll post a pic of those later. I gotta get on the stick.

Burr Grinder

There’s something about a hand-me-down that can trump a new purchase. I had a pair of tan leather workboats that my grandfather gave me in high school (we were pretty much the same height, shoe size, and pants size for a long while), and while the boots themselves were nothing special and didn’t even strike my fancy, style-wise, I loved the fact that they were somehow a perfect fit and had lasted many decades having seen little wear, but still were remarkably wearable. They had undergone that transformation from being out of style to timeless.

I think one of the things about a hand-me-down is the degree to which they highlight something that you might want or need, but when it comes into your life, you’re happy to have that thing, and that thing is somehow better than the one you had, or adds something to your life.

My dad recently upgraded his coffee bean grinder, and offered me his old burr grinder, which he had repaired. I imagine he figured that he didn’t need two, but that there wasn’t really anything wrong with the first one. So he repaired it and passed it on to me.

The burr grinder I have isn’t cheap, necessarily, but it’s nothing special; it s a cuisinart that I’ve had to replace once already. The new one, after some wrangling, works great, and it’s so quiet in comparison to the thrashy, high-decibel noise that comes out of the cuisinart.

So I didn’t know I wanted a new burr grinder, and I wouldn’t have purchased one for myself, but I’m glad dad didn’t chuck this one when he upgraded. My new old grinder is better than my old new one.

SEKI EDGE SS-112 Stainless Steel Nail Clipper

I heard Merlin Mann and John Gruber waxing ecstatic about these nail clippers, and we were talking at home about how terrible an experience nail clipping can be. I remembered these and ordered a pair. Sharp as shit, no joke.

Tabby 3.0

I featured Tabby in a Sunday Serial back in January of 2024; it was something I was looking for after using Chrome (or Edge) a lot for work. I don’t prefer Chrome (or Edge) to Safari, but I do like its Tab Search feature. Both Tabby and Tab Switcher have found use on my Macs; I recently dove back into Tabby, because while I like Tab Switcher’s center-of-the-active-window UI behavior, I like Tabby’s ability to quickly close tabs.

Updating Tabby today on my Mac Studio found me trying it out again. Version 3 is significantly different from version 2.x in that it appears as a standalone app when you invoke it. I don’t like this better at all; I like the tab search window to be a kind of hud or pop-up menu, with the browser window just behind it.

But there’s a lot to like about the new app: You can save windows with open tabs for later use, just like tab groups in Safari. And, of course, the tab search is awesome.

Tabby does seem to reproduce Safari’s Tab Groups feature in this respect, although as with searching open tabs, Tabby makes things a bit easier. I’ve been using it on my Mac at home at I do like it.

Launchbar

As is usually the case, though, Launchbar can do that, too.

WWDC 2025 Keynote

There was nothing like a Stevenote: Steve Jobs would get up on stage at an Apple event and show off their latest kit. The iPhone introduction is legendary, but there are others worth watching, whether you’re impervious to the reality distortion field or not.

The keynotes aren’t quite like they were in Steve’s days, but they’re still exciting. Things to watch out for include a preview of the next version of macOS, and a significant redesign to your iPhone’s interface.