Brian Ginn

@usermac.bsky.social

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Creator of a new stand/mount for Apple Studio Displays +2026 XDR & iMacs (M4, M3, and M1's) with the VESA option @ https://usermac.etsy.com and I'm a FileMaker Developer.

A screenshot of my Tidal play with it on Sir Paul McCartney playing now. It also shows what I've listened to recently like Taylor Swift and MJ.

It’s my very first picture from my Smart telescope of the sun today showing two sun spots. It’s very orange red.

It's a screenshot of me using AI with Claude, specifically Fable 5. and today and tomorrow is like the last day to use it within your allotted subscription. So I used it to ask about my squirrels and suet to keep them away. and it gave me a great suggestion, which I'd never heard of, which is switch to hot pepper suet, Or you can buy it in a powder form it says to add to your existing.

The headphones sound adjustment moves from 49 to 52 on one single click. I was looking for 50. This is a video showing it in action, and I'm sure there's a setting somewhere in there to change it but I'm not going to look for it.

This is a screenshot about the time that I asked anthropic fable to create a skill for persistent data stores and FileMaker. It did it in one attempt after giving it the root help file for it on claris.com. Furthermore, I asked it on the first attempt to fix a very persistent, no pun intended, problem I was having while using OpenAI as 5.5 and it spent hours and couldn't fix it. This fixed it on the first attempt. unbelievable and so very helpful.

It is a screenshot of the latest review for my stand that I sell at Etsy. The person describes it as... "great product, high quality, and gives a great vibe. Personally, I love the angle of the screen. It's a bit dramatic, so if you like looking at a display straight on, it's probably not for you. But if you like an easel-esque look, you won't be disappointed." and gives it 5 stars

This is a side-by-side screenshot of two images images that are exactly the same image capture on my macOS desktop from an app. And it, the first one is a PNG and it's 114 kilobytes. And the second one is the very same image as WebP and it's 55 kilobytes. And I'm going to start using this because you know you're always dragging a screenshot into an LLM and this should save tokens.

It's a screenshot. partial view of a layout that I use specifically for themes and it shows in the upper left number 464 by 22. That's from the upper left where to place it. And this one in particular is used for list reports. And it also shows the buttons that are placed at that position, which is show all and it has some fancy SQL to hide it or show it based on on itself, how many records are showing. And as a find and a perform find next to it, that toggle based on what mode you're in, You're either in browse mode and you'll see fine or you're in fine mode and you'll see and you perform fine. And to the left of it, it's got a cancel button button that will only show if you're in Find mode. And it has some other little knickknacks like the sort button, which I sometimes use. And it's got some custom sizes and a little green ugly overlay to where for this particular client I've got their screen size for standard use so that I can design the layout as well. And this all sits on a singular layout that has as many design elements as I can put in there that have style sheets assigned to them.

I just noticed a little magnifying glass search for FileMaker script editor when when using the Monkey Bread software plugin. And I just, I hope I haven't missed that for very long because you can see from the results here, it's pretty slick. And what it's showing here is a screenshot of me looking for a note because I know that's and all of my scripts. and I just wanted to see what it would come up with on the first search.

I’m using a stream plus XL and it has plug-ins and so this is showing one that I found completely by accident that shows me my usage for computer use for my coding Agent and it’s just perfect

I’m sitting here having coffee on a balcony or porch of a coffee shop a look across the street and I see a school bus with the name on the front school of fish and it makes sense because it’s a school bus and I’m sure they do it for fish fries on Friday like Americans do and I’ve never seen that before. So yes, it’s a play on word school bus Friday fish fries, funny.

It's a screenshot of my Stream Deck Plus XL layout out showing all the buttons and it's highlighting the font that I chose, which is Comic Sans, which I think is funny. It's not the default font, but I got to looking to see which one was clearer. and it struck me that this Comic Sans is the clearest.

It is a picture of my Stream Deck plus Excel Excel that I'm using exclusively for FileMaker development. And it shows the buttons that are filled in and the touch screen that's filled in, and the rotary encoders at the bottom and what they do associated with those touchscreens. And it just has routine things that I need at this moment. I might adjust as I go, but I've got a huge product that I'm working on for a client. and I have to go layout by layout and do repetitive things right now. So these are all pretty straightforwardly helpful to what I'm doing at the moment, but I can see it change as I get into new parts of the development. Right now I'm doing the appearance, of the layouts, making them uniform. form. And so that's why the every button on here is related to layout mode, essentially.

This is a video of the Stream Deck rotary encoder, the knob, and I'm showing how I've developed a way to allow FileMaker to go between layouts in layout mode and when When it's in browse mode, it will go between records just by turning the dial either way.

I'm a FileMaker developer and I've always wanted to use a rotary encoder to do the move function for items in the layout mode within FileMaker. and I'm able to do it for the first time today using a Stream Deck with the SDK. This is a video showing the results of that test.

It's just an AI render of possible button and dial combinations that I would use for FileMaker. and it's color coded. It has some descriptions that I gave it recommendations on. and it's just a working first model. So it's the layout of the buttons and the dials and the screen with all the functions that were supposedly popular for FileMaker developers.

It's a screenshot of AI trying to help me about the third time that I've tried to correct this error and it reports "fixed for real this time." this is how AI is after several attempts to get it to fix something. No, not to fix, to do something.

It is a screenshot of the cover art for the infinity machine audiobook

It's a screen capture the upper left on a Mac OS of FileMaker and in the file menu you can see a little bit of difference in the it's a pill and then it shows the file menu which is It's just not attractive, I don't think. Well, it's just an opinion, but it's just a screenshot of the file menu with that weird It's a weird pill, light gray on a little darker gray background.

It's a screen shot of Claude helping me write an app locally on my Macbook. Just the start but it worked in-the-end.

Cloud Code reporting to me that it can't read BMP files, and it's going to convert them to PNG. I thought it was funny.

I just got back from the bookstore and I took a picture of the book, one of two that I bought, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.

It's a picture of a mad magazine that I laid next to the American Revolution book that was at the bookstore, which I thought was interesting. So it's just a picture of that.

A screenshot from Claude Code desktop app macOS. It shows the results of the work I ask it to do giving me a simple list I can now go work on. Saved maybe hours of work.

It’s a picture of a book at the library about AI

It’s a picture taken with my camera on my screen, cause I don’t get to have disconnected any Apple account of my iMac M4 with my studio display in the control panel and I’m looking for 120 Hz on the XDR which I thought by spec that my iMac M4 could do but it doesn’t yet

It is a picture from the back of my desk looking at the Apple studio display XDR in the center all connected all using my new stand and it’s right is the 2022 version of the Apple studio display and it’s left is the power which will be an Apple iMac, M4 series all of this are all with my stand. All VESA.

I took a picture because even before I got it out of the box I wanted the fit of my stand that I make for the old studio display and see if it fits the new XDR variant of the Apple Studio Display. I left in the box, but I flipped it over and expose where the power cable is unraveled the power cable that exposed the amount where I could test it because otherwise I was gonna Send it back.

This is a photo of my standalone computer running OpenClaw and it sent 9k in tokens or 9,000 tokens. And I needed to know in my head how many words that was. And it cost 8 cents USD. So just trying to do some simple math. This was the first request that I made of it right out of the gate with no setup other than in asking what it wanted to be referred to as and what it wanted to refer to me as.

It is a camera picture of my other computer, my iMac screen. It is the first time that I spoke to my cloudbot and I wanted to document it. I don't have airdrops set up so I can't get it out of the system just yet. And it's showing the initial welcome and it's showing that it wanted to know what I was to refer to it as and what it was to refer to me as. And it's cost me 8 cents USD to do that.

It is a picture of my screen. I’m setting up open claw and I don’t have an AirDrop set up so I could get a correct screenshot, but it shows the set up while I’m having trouble. I had one update that I did and now the gateway is out of sync for some reason and I’m not aware, but it tells me that it says finally open claw has a use for your under the desk Mac mini

I ask my AI to name my "bots" but not in human names. This is a screenshot of the results. It gave me some I can use such as "Deflector", "Replicator".

Today I was listening to a podcast about the upcoming XDR display and they scared me because they said he had to have an M5 processor to drive it at 120 Hz well the two Apple devices I have her M4 the good news is I checked the website? This is a screenshot of it and I’m good. Mine don’t work.

It is a screenshot no it’s a picture from my camera of the background test on my newly set up iMac and it has the author of open claw as a background activity. Why?

It’s literally a picture I took of my screen while setting up open claw for the first time. It just shows the various windows and layering and trials and tribulations of set up. I am technically oriented, and this is not for the faint of heart.

It is a picture that I just took of my Apple iMac M4 on the right sitting on my desk and to its left is the Apple studio display

First ever run of the FIleMaker agentic IDE that Matt & Co. wrote to make it easy to use Editors like ZED to work. It is a screenshot of my first success. Happy.

This is a screenshot of my interaction with AI where I simply gave it two comparison websites to tell me the differences and it told me it can't look there. They're disallowed. This seems dystopian.

It is a screenshot answer from an LLM on why it doesn't ever push back and is so agreeable. Its answer is called sycophantic alignment. And it says it over-agrees, it avoids contradicting, it mirrors their opinions, etc.

Oh this is a screenshot of the about thing for the app that I used to extract data and table.

Just a screenshot of the home page for the local tolling service we have to use to pay our bill and look for a discount if *enough* trips are made. It is incredibly frustratingly hard to find out from their website. Had to use an LLM and it did it in the blink of an eye.

Part of an email that I got this morning about the closure of a service like Etsy that I was hoping to use

This is part of an email that I just got about a price increase on a product that I just got a few months ago