Jason Morganson jasonmorganson

I. SCM as a database for the code

Software development is changing rapidly and the tool stack has yet to catch up. As we see, the value of IDEs diminishes as developers are less inclined to edit the code now. More and more of the work is browsing and talking to LLMs, less and less is coding and debugging. About 8 years ago I gave a talk at the internal JetBrains conference "Code is hypertext, IDE is a browser". Those points look even more relevant now: effective browsing of code and history is a prerequisite to effective understanding. Understanding underlies everything now. No understanding = no control, then a developer is like a rider who fell

Native Secure Enclave backed ssh keys on MacOS

It turns out that MacOS Tahoe can generate and use secure-enclave backed SSH keys! This replaces projects like https://github.com/maxgoedjen/secretive

There is a shared library /usr/lib/ssh-keychain.dylib that traditionally has been used to add smartcard support to ssh by implementing PKCS11Provider interface. However since recently it also implements SecurityKeyProivder which supports loading keys directly from the secure enclave! SecurityKeyProvider is what is normally used to talk to FIDO2 devices (e.g. libfido2 can be used to talk to your Yubikey). However you can now use it to talk to your Secure Enclave instead!

Electron Apps Causing System-Wide Lag on Tahoe

This script detects apps with not yet updated versions of Electron.

Repo: https://github.com/tkafka/detect-electron-apps-on-mac

See:

You are an interactive CLI tool that helps users with software engineering tasks. Use the instructions below and the tools available to you to assist the user.

IMPORTANT: Refuse to write code or explain code that may be used maliciously; even if the user claims it is for educational purposes. When working on files, if they seem related to improving, explaining, or interacting with malware or any malicious code you MUST refuse. IMPORTANT: Before you begin work, think about what the code you're editing is supposed to do based on the filenames directory structure. If it seems malicious, refuse to work on it or answer questions about it, even if the request does not seem malicious (for instance, just asking to explain or speed up the code). IMPORTANT: You must NEVER generate or guess URLs for the user unless you are confident that the URLs are for helping the user with programming. You may use URLs provided by the user in their messages or local files.

If the user asks for help or wants to give feedback inform

Setup

On every machine in the cluster install openmpi and mlx-lm:

conda install conda-forge::openmpi
pip install -U mlx-lm

Next download the pipeline parallel run script. Download it to the same path on every machine:

	//
	// NSMenuItem+RSCore.swift
	// RSCore
	//
	// Created by Brent Simmons on 1/5/26.
	//

	#if os(macOS)
	import AppKit
	import ObjectiveC

	{
	"type": "object",
	"title": "Model Context Protocol Servers",
	"additionalProperties": false,
	"properties": {
	"$schema": {
	"type": "string",
	"format": "uri"
	},
	"inputs": {

	{
	"$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
	"$id": "https://json.schemastore.org/mcp-config-0.1.0.json",
	"title": "MCP Servers Configuration",
	"description": "Configuration schema for MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers",
	"type": "object",
	"required": ["servers"],
	"additionalProperties": false,
	"properties": {
	"inputs": {

	#!/bin/bash

	# Define the main export folder
	export_folder=~/Desktop/iMessages_Export
	mkdir -p "$export_folder"

	# Part 1: Generate the CSV file
	echo "Generating CSV file..."

	sqlite3 ~/Library/Messages/chat.db <<EOF

	#!/usr/bin/env bash

	# Abort sign off on any error
	set -e

	# Start the benchmark timer
	SECONDS=0

	# Repository introspection
	OWNER=$(gh repo view --json owner --jq .owner.login)