The most flexible, independence preserving thing to do is to use a third party password manager like Bitwarden, and make that the default passkey flow for your devices. If desired, you can self-host something like Vaultwarden so that you can both keep the keys independent of third parties and walled gardens and also propagate them to other client devices.

To be clear I'd much rather not have learned / implemented any of this, and I don't use passkeys unless forced, but this seems like a valid coping strategy.

I'm agnostic about a rewrite, I never used Chandler and as far as I'm concerned it's perfectly serviceable for me the end user as it is. I rarely use the UI. I have been contemplating interacting with it more agentically, maybe having a bot update the record that I had a beer with someone instead of doing it by hand, but I like that it's focused.

I have started musing about how I might bridge it to other systems, like the people I have resolved from faces in my Immich photos, but I neither want or expect Monica to do this for me.

I picked a spot on the map and no store within 25 blocks in any direction has any deals. That's fine, and it's not the author's fault that they don't publish deals, but after that the next thing to do is to search for a particular thing. If you live at that point on the map, is the rational thing to then go to another borough to save a dollar on tofu?

I think most people look for grocery deals opportunistically and if it's not where they are then it's not interesting. The question isn't "where's the cheapest X", it's "what's cheap near Y".

I don't think there's a good way to do that either without sharing device location. I asked the bot "what's the best store near St. Patrick's Cathedral?" and it hadn't the faintest idea, even after multiple follow-ups.

[1] https://github.com/koalazak/dorita980

Dollar General wins out on low prices - essentially compressing their value prop onto a single dimension, prices. They won't do the Strong Towns things like sponsor a park or thoughtfully curate what they sell to fit community needs. There's no button to press in a DG that says "sell more eggplants please".

The value of a small scale community business is many things on different axes, of which delivering goods for money is one. Much like when you compress a jpeg for size at the expense of image quality, you can optimize for one thing to the total exclusion of others.

For a customer at the till it's totally reasonable to think on that one axis, but it's important that there be voices tasked with appreciating the whole. It's a need of society to think of what's a better lossless algorithm so that we can efficiently enjoy the benefits of all dimensions.

If you straddle the worlds of preferring a "normal" router to a custom built box but also want to keep your configuration history in git I think OpenWRT may be the best option.

1. https://github.com/koalazak/rest980

As a python user, I use the plotnine[1] implementation religiously.

[0]. https://vita.had.co.nz/papers/tidy-data.pdf

[1]. https://plotnine.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

Somewhere between high school and college I decided it was worth fixing and after a few years it got much better, continuing to improve for the next ten years or so.

I'm really glad I did it - my notes flow more easily, my written correspondence impresses and I have the common sense to simply hand print when one shot understanding is more important than aesthetics.