Jeff Wilcox

Is this graffiti?

OK. I like this.

One of my favorite things about the Matter ecosystem is just the simplicity: only took me 90 minutes this morning to configure a setting for a light switch.

I really wonder what the story is behind this sign near the Space Needle.

Day of the dead parade through the market + Belltown

When did society decide that we don't need to use headphones any longer?

Would love an OLED MacBook Pro.

FSD in 2026 remains … not great.

Hit that stage of AI psychosis where I imagined prompting a whole set of features in my sleep, I think (?) or I cannot find the sessions anywhere.

AI is really good at throwing slop through random support channels internally, it's unbearable at this point. "Hey - AI shows me that you have temporarily elevated permission - can you do a bunch of things for me? Calling to discuss!"

My personal hardware work-joined phone is this ancient iPhone mini. Glad it supports iOS 27.

👋🏻 looking out over Vancouver island from San Juan today

Mac Studio stress test complete: ✅ 🖥️ bounces off of wood floor and remains in perfect working condition (except for the wood floor)

Fall trees are happening

Listening to the hawks game + Sunday chores.

Good AI savings: "Analyzing your last year of recurring spending, do you know that you have two subscriptions to the Seattle Times, likely with 2 different email addresses?"

So much double parking and very annoyed lost drivers in Pike Place today...

Imagine if in the US all our cameras had to have signs about privacy and data retention like Italy… it’s like cookie banners, but not.

This CCTV cam at the Vatican surprised me: just a random unpluggable keystone jack.

Our friend is like the Open AI of wines: whenever a new restaurant agrees to carry their wine, they buy a bunch of it to encourage future orders, yet - no real profit.

Back in Seattle after 2 weeks in Italy. Wow. So many homeless people here. Every meal is 3X the cost. Mad Max driving ignoring lights. Insanity.

Death & Co. Seattle does a martini right 🍸

Good Lime coverage in Rome 🍋‍🟩 🛴 🚲 Though not as dense as Seattle and the lanes were very hit or miss

Rome: yes we can dig up famous plazas and artifacts and extend our rail line. Let’s do it. Meanwhile in Seattle: Amazon doesn’t want disruptions from cut and cover Westlake… so let’s just not.

Something I did not expect to experience in the Vatican: offering pews support Apple Pay

Morning hike from Vernazza to Corniglia

🇮🇹 💕

Florentine T-bone 🥩 🇮🇹 Mission accomplished

Florence day! Art! 🖼️ 🇮🇹

Pike Place needs a few big planters in the street

Walkable Florence (though the streets open to vehicles elsewhere have super narrow & useless sidewalks)

Current status: on an Italian Frecciarossa train with a car full of Americans who instantly became train people… they cannot stop talking about how smooth it is at 300 km/h. It’s good for people to travel. 🚆 🇮🇹

Walkable neighborhoods are better without cars.

20 minutes in the EU and reminded how annoying cookie banners are 🍪

UniFi Network 5.1.31 is horrible. We had to walk back before and no longer have the choice. Major impacts to all our WiFi routing. Sigh. Hoping .33 is better.

There was a bit too much laboring on this labor day in my immediate working group... looking forward to some vacation soon.

Watching Silo… didn’t realize how funny it is that Apple makes their villains on Apple TV use Android phones!

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Silo!

Death & Co. Seattle opening night 🍸

Vivid memories from university when the network would go down and we would all slam the coffee shops

Yes please.

Rode the 8 bus to the hill tonight. Best part was passing like 30 Rivians. (Rivian is the new Tesla minus that one CEO)

Leaves changing color already on campus?

Cars have inflated in size so much the past 20 years since our condo tower was constructed... that while there are fewer cars than ever that people are parking, there's more conflict than ever as even tiny trucks and SUVs are larger than the original declaration banned in size for "full-size trucks"

Bellingham has 100% more bollards than Seattle

Whatcom Country Transit is so nice compared to Seattle. I’m the only rider and also could eat a meal off the floor potentially. So clean.