Brad Barrish

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:56:24 -0700

Few do the kind of deep investigative reporting that Ronan Farrow is known to do. His latest piece on Sam Altman in The New Yorker is something.

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:34:33 -0700

Friday night is movie night in our house and we’ve gotten to the point where coming up with a movie is especially tough. Last Friday we chose Uncle Buck, but we ended up stopping it. The 13yo (daughter) was creeped out by it and the 11yo (son) didn’t think it was all that great, despite Kevin McCallister starring in it.

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:01:54 -0700

When you save the book for after the movie, it’s like getting an extended director’s cut that includes so much more material, and lets you dive into that world even deeper with characters and details that weren’t captured on screen.

From Don’t read the book before the movie

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:43:26 -0700

As is the case for many macOS users, I have an overcrowded menubar, especially since my MacBook Air and MacBook Pro have the notch. I’ve been a long-time user of a little macOS menubar utility called Ice, which hasn’t received updates for a while. It seems to still work pretty well, but I have been low-key looking around for something to replace it. To my surprise, I ran across a fork of Ice called Thaw, which is under active development and adds some welcome features.

Sat, 28 Mar 2026 13:12:27 -0700

So cool to see what artists wear. I love this. /via clone.fyi

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:36:48 -0700

Definitely installing the WarGames Terminal Fonts in iTerm.

Sun, 22 Mar 2026 12:55:43 -0700

One quick follow-up to my post about Leonard’s handy Twitter archiving tool. I ran into an issue where I had a couple older archives that were done with the Grailbird format, Twitter’s old archive format used before ~2018. I had Codex and Claude collab on a Python script that converts old archives like mine into the modern Twitter archive format so they can be imported into tweetxvault. It does a few things… Reads ‘’tweets.csv’’ from Grailbird archives, extracts account metadata from user_details.js, transforms the CSV data into the modern JSON structure Twitter uses today and generates the files tweetxvault expects: manifest.js, tweets.js, and account.js. I ended up submitting a PR to have this added since I’m probably not the only one with archives in the older format.

Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:59:53 -0700

Thanks to my friend Leonard’s new tool and the fact that I archived my tweets before I deleted almost everything, I now have a database with all of my tweets, likes and bookmarks in a database. While I haven’t tweeted in a while, I do still log in for AI Twitter. Absolutely nothing else like it.

Sat, 21 Mar 2026 20:12:14 -0700

For some reason, the Quiche Browser surfaced in my feeds, despite not being new, having any big releases or being particularly popular. I’m downloading it again since I haven’t tried it in a long time. Lately I’ve been using Kagi’s Orion browser as my main mobile browser. Dia is what I continue to use and enjoy on macOS, but their new tag organization features really pissed me off recently.

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:27:05 -0700

The Jurassic Park Theme slowed down 1000% is lovely.

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:00:50 -0700

I did not sign up for this bullshit.

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 20:52:00 -0700

Feeling pretty good about having cancelled my Grammarly subscription. Been a happy Harper user for while now. If you need something more substantial because you’re a serious writer, try Sudowrite.

Sun, 08 Mar 2026 19:31:30 -0700

I like what Chris is doing with Miniroll.

Sat, 28 Feb 2026 21:30:19 -0700

Lucas Gelfond put togeher the (searchable) Whole Earth. What a cool project.

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 21:34:56 -0700

I dunno… $25/year for a weather seems steep to me. And I’ve probably spent at least double that on weather apps for my iPhone as long as I’ve been using one. I asked Claude to talk me out of it, but instead it made me laugh.

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:45:32 -0700

Gravity is a really nice app that definitely fills a certain void for me. I use Obsidian for pretty much all text, but I find it a little to slow sometimes for when I just need to jot some things down on a digital scrap piece of paper. Drafts used to serve this purpose for me.

Thu, 12 Feb 2026 15:51:04 -0700

Well, I can cross off making a Google Docs for markdown files from my list of things to build for myself. Matt did it.

Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:05:09 -0700

With all of the messing around with AI that I’ve been doing, mostly with Claude Code, I’m spending a lot more time in Terminal. Working with a machine and instructing it using natural language is absolutely wild. Over the last few months, the time I spend in in a TUI is upwards of 50% of my time and I absolutely love it. What I’m about to share assumes that you have some familiarity and comfort on the command line and already have Homebrew installed. And, hey, if you don’t, ask your favorite AI for some assistance. These are just a few things that have genuinely enhanced my experience:

iTerm instead of Terminal
Oh My Zsh for some handy enhancements to the command line experience
Powerlevel10k theme for Oh My Zsh

Gabe Perez has an easy-to-follow guide to help and so does Steven Chim. I used them both to get my command line set up. So much of it is subjective. My suggestion is to start simple and minimal.

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 22:21:05 -0700

I was lucky enough to attend XOXO a few times. Cabel’s talk really was one of the best. I was floored to see that he posted a behind-the-scenes backstory that is utterly fantastic.

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 23:25:23 -0700

Finally doing something with the ~68,000 bookmarks I’ve been hoarding.

Sun, 01 Feb 2026 23:10:38 -0700

Tom Morello plays First Avenue in Minneapolis.

Fri, 09 Jan 2026 16:45:40 -0700

Love the upcoming Bruce Lee Forever stamp from the USPS.

Fri, 09 Jan 2026 11:10:51 -0700

What did Bowie do at your age?

Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:17:35 -0700

Saw Jeff Tweedy tonight at Largo. Such a great show, even though I wasn’t familiar with most of the songs. I haven’t spent much time with his solo stuff. Judd Apatow did some standup to open, but Jeff might have actually been funnier.

Sun, 04 Jan 2026 12:59:40 -0700

If you are a California resident, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. I’ll probably keep paying for Incogni as well. I’ve definitely noticed a difference.