404’s investigation into “ELITE” tool Palantir built for ICE to locate “targets” was illuminating. This company is despicable. It made me sad knowing that there are designers out there willing to spend their precious time and talents working on such a tool — shame on you!

What’s Happening in Minnesota is Terrible: https://haglund.app/2026/01/22/whats-happening-in-minnesota-is.html

Thinking a lot about Micro Apps after reading about Matt Birchler’s Yearly Run Tracker. It has inspired me to work on a few ideas.

I showed the post to my wife and she loved it. She had this goal once, figured it’d be easy, but didn’t hit it due to off-days. An app would have helped!

Our kiddo got her cleanliness from her mom and clinginess from her dad.

All the movies and TV I watched in 2025: https://haglund.app/2026/01/14/all-the-movies-and-tv.html

Got a Series 11 Apple Watch: https://haglund.app/2026/01/11/got-a-series-apple-watch.html

Sometimes I have to crack open a pistachio with a screwdriver and I feel like a nut.

If Christmas Vacation was remade in 2025 I could see Clark Griswold getting onto the roof to clear the snow from his solar panels while putting up the lights.

This idea came to me this weekend while shoveling snow from my solar panels and wondering if I’d gone insane.

A Call for Better Duplicate Management in Apple Photos: https://haglund.app/2025/11/25/a-call-for-better-duplicate.html

While expensive and hard to buy, I’m excited to receive my Analogue 3D soon. It warmed my heart seeing a bunch of kids playing N64 Super Smash Bros in Russ’ review.

I fell in love with video games after seeing Samus Aran do a beam charge in that game. Totally blew my mind as a kid.

We lost power for an hour right around sunset today with 30°F weather and it highlighted just how underprepared I am for these situations. We almost had to order delivery and I almost bought a big battery.

Very much enjoying Pluribus on Apple TV. Fascinating premise. You know you’re in good hands with Vince Gilligan and Rhea Seahorn.

Bravo 404 Media, bravo.

"Nancy Pelosi, one of Wall Street’s all time great investors, announced her retirement Thursday. … Pelosi’s portfolio returned an incredible 816%, according to public disclosure records. The S&P 500, meanw... https://haglund.app/2025/11/06/bravo-media-bravo-nancy-pelosi.html

Reversing Enshittification: https://haglund.app/2025/11/04/reversing-enshittification.html

My History with Frankenstein: https://haglund.app/2025/11/03/my-history-with-frankenstein.html

I say “would you like to watch a slow horse?” instead of “would you like to watch an episode of Slow Horses?” and luckily my spouse gets what I mean.

Today I bought Nova on sale. I just want to support the good people at Panic making great Mac apps.

We just finished watching the incredible, outstanding season 5 of Fargo with Juno Temple, Jon Hamm, and Lamorne Morris (my boy Winston won an Emmy! Temple and Hamm were nominated). We cruised through seasons 1-3 at the end of 2023 and like a present season 5 was just waiting for us.

Today I bought a Kermit hand puppet (Muppet?) for my kiddo at a garage sale, trimmed a tree like an arborist (cut my finger with said blade), took a nap outside, and had wine at an art gallery.

Fall is an amazing time down in Urbana. I highly recommend it.

I released MapKeep 2 this week that adds categories, search by address, iOS 26 Liquid Glass, and more. It’s free, so check it out.

(It’s a simple utility app that saves your current location while you’re out and about with one tap. It supports iCloud sync and works on iPhone and Apple Watch.)

Bon Iver’s Day One is one of those songs that instantly fills me with happiness. This video is a delight!

During my first-listen of the new Bright Eyes album, Kids Table, (<a href="https://music.apple.com/us/album/kids-table/1830276102" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Apple Music) I was compelled to pause and listen to the original Sharp Cutting Wings by Lucinda Williams (YouTube, Apple Music). Somehow I had never heard this song before.

After lots of annoying DNS and Apple Account email shenanigans, I officially switched from Fastmail (which I loved, but couldn’t justify $4/mo for how little I use this email) to iCloud Custom Email Domain. So far so good. Fingers crossed that this seldomly-used feature actually works. 🤞

I have been meaning to write about my recent experiences using Claude Code this summer. Matt Webb’s post captures a lot of the frustrations and excitement of this new tech and what it means for the act of making software.

Coding with AI sometimes feels like asking someone to make you a PB&J sandwich but instead of grabbing the peanut butter already in the cupboard, it goes to the grocery store and comes back without the peanut butter.