This piece is a continuation from an app-to I published a few days ago. Currently, Time Machine does not natively support hourly local snapshot creation when the backup schedule is set to daily. Although it sounds counterintuitive, the key here is “local snapshot”. Time Machine runs on snapshots, capturing what has changed at every interval. Creating a snapshot locally is a light task, whereas pushing the snapshot to a remote location isn’t. Hence why I searched for a solution.
By Rian
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The Stairway 7 Spiel
Different Exit 8-likes certainly have tried different methods of incorporating or developing the definition of “Exit 8.” I even wrote about the four pillars of Exit 8-likes. Unfortunately The Stairway 7 misses the mark in its own noise, enough that I wonder if the game was even meant to be an Exit 8-like.
App to Customize Time Machine Schedule
Of many things I have adopted over the course of years, Time Machine is one element that is both most helpful if hell breaks loose and least updated since. I have discussed the shortcomings of Time Machine and shared some of the possible remedies before. Apple’s own iOS backup system supersedes macOS Time Machine. It is remote, and nothing equivalent is offered on the Mac yet. But one feature was added rather recently: rudimentary scheduling.
App to Self-Host Location History Tracker
My last camera for the sake of pure photography, I believe I bought it around early 2010s. It was a click-and-shoot with GPS tagging. Smartphone cameras were still playing catch up, and while the GPS chip gave it more metadata, hardly any software could make use of it. The geolocation data lived by itself, not matched to a place. And it was not easy to export elsewhere, either. Scroll forward to 2026, I wish I hadn’t bought the camera at all. Smartphones genuinely provide impressive quality for a portable device, with much needed metadata (including accurate date and time), face…
App to Identify wp2shell Vulnerability on WordPress
If your WordPress has automatically installed an update, this is the retroactive PSA on why WordPress has urgently issued one. If it hasn’t, consider it an urgent PSA. There is a vulnerability in WordPress Core, disclosed July 17, affecting 6.9.0–6.9.4 and 7.0.0–7.0.1. The attack surface is Core itself: no compromised plugins, themes, or custom code. As far as I could find, with an estimated 500 million+ websites running the platform, WordPress has decided to push the update rather aggressively.
Gemini 3.6 Flash Released
Over the last few weeks, my main takeaway with the Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 releases was their respective costs and cost performances. Neither company particularly hides the fact that the real models they offer are paywalled. It creates a distinct entry barrier for those who simply are not the target audience of the marketing materials surrounding the AI hype: vibe coding, content creation, and so on.
Fable 5 Now Included in Max Subscription
Fable 5 saga is finally coming to an end with Anthropic deciding to include the flagship model in Max. Since I am on Max tier for this month temporarily, the announcement is disappointing in two ways: a. Fable won’t be available on a similar price tier as GPT 5.6 Sol, and b. Fable is simply too inefficient when it comes to token counts compared to Sol. Whichever way you cut it, you can get a better deal from Codex.
Fears to Fathom – Norwood Hitchhike Spiel
Fears to Fathom is now in the second season, and with it, the first season went on summer sale. If I were to compare the franchise to Chilla’s Art, I would argue Fears to Fathom relies more heavily on the urban legends of the 80s and 90s, revived as creepypasta. In my previous review of the first episode of Fears to Fathom, I remarked on the fact that the episode largely rests on anachronistic horror tropes. Norwood Hitchhike doesn’t escape the path.
1Password Adds Claude Support
If you have been on a vibe coding frenzy thanks to Fable 5, 1Password has something to offer for you today. The company has announced a new feature that fills website credentials on Claude’s behalf. By the developer’s claim, the feature is designed to have zero-exposure to the agent — tasks are handled by AI, and the credentials do not enter the model or its memory. Each request still needs to be approved on 1Password. It is currently only available on Mac and Google Chrome. The detailed announcement and support document is in the link. Give it a read if…
Sony to Stop PS Disc Production
Sony is winding down disc production for new titles as of 2028. The signs were on the wall. Digital-only storefronts. Disc-less consoles. Competitors who went digital years ago, or are still trying to. However, the announcement was ill-received. It was seen as contempt for consumers’ rights. For archival efforts of video games. For anyone who wanted physical media. Sony’s true motive behind the decision is irrelevant. The disc was never engineered to protect those rights.
Fable 5 Trial Extended, Again
The great game of chicken is afoot. Fable 5 trial period is extended, yet again, to July 19th. Albeit anecdotal, there are numerous developers sharing similar stories about the cost performance of the new ChatGPT model, GPT-5.6 Sol. The community consensus agrees Fable 5 and Sol are both frontier models delivering similar results. What’s staggering in these accounts of ChatGPT comparison is not its mere performance. The current consensus seems to be running around a third or a quarter of the cost of running Fable 5.
App to Test USB-C Cables on macOS
I did float the idea of buying a USB-C tester only to be thoroughly defeated. USB-C, as it stands, is more about the physical shape of the plug and port, not what is traveling on the cable itself. However, USB-C simply isn’t “one cable to rule them all”. Type C is more a nutrition label or laundry tag — universal in format, but nothing in the rules says a cable has to support all of it.
App to Block YouTube Ads from DuckDuckGo
YouTube has been aggressively pushing for more ads on its platform. And their antics circumvent their own supposedly ad-free subscription. YouTube Premium, at a fixed price, is supposed to deliver the unaltered experience and more, like added functionality. But as I have covered before on the topic, YouTube is bad at keeping up with their own platform as-is: subtitles, PIP, multi-language support. The list goes on.
macOS to Drop Encrypted HFS+ Support by 2027
Apple announced that macOS 28, which will be released in 2027, will not support encrypted HFS+. The support document simply calls it “Mac OS Extended file system”. You may want to double-check old archival HDDs if they’re still formatted to encrypted HFS+. I’d recommend simply reformatting the drive to encrypted APFS, though decrypting the volume is an option too.
Fable 5 Trial Extended
Fable 5’s trial period got an extension. If you had a chance to try it on an existing subscription, you already know whether it worked out for your actual project. There’s no stronger evidence than that. For me, Fable 5’s capability was amazing in its own right — but not at usage-based pricing.