Coyote Tracks

Watts Martin

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I’m a science fiction/fantasy author and a technical writer. A few years ago I was known for being a technical blogger on Tumblr; now I blog right here. I left Twitter a while ago, but you can find me posting on Mastodon and Bluesky now. My pronouns are he/they.

https://coyotetracks.org/blog/

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• “Trim Silence”: Threat or menace? 2026-02-17 04:00pm
• Is AI helping you to do work, or just to do stuff? 2026-02-09 04:00pm
• Emacs and Shortcuts 2025-12-07 10:41am
• Apple wins me over again, but it’s getting tougher 2025-11-20 04:00pm
• The Emacs for everything obsession 2025-11-03 04:00pm
• Collaboration or privacy: pick one 2025-10-22 05:00pm
• If not the Mac, what? 2025-10-15 03:56am
• Seriously, Markdown 2025-08-20 03:51am
• It's the heat and the humidity; also, the fascism 2025-08-04 05:00pm
• Dr. Neckbeard, or how I learned to stop worrying and love Emacs 2025-06-04 02:44am
• Maybe the waiting is actually the easiest part 2025-05-12 08:45am
• The robots have come for your em dashes 2025-04-14 04:11am
• What makes an app feel “right” on the Mac? 2025-03-31 03:45am
• Having to think about essential computerness 2025-03-24 04:35am
• Just slap an LLM on the front end—how hard can it be? 2025-03-17 04:31am
• The Reluctant Technologist 2025-03-10 04:15am
• The pressure to stay genteel 2025-01-24 04:30am
• Platforms are not neutral 2024-11-26 04:30am
• On evacuations and hurricanes 2024-10-08 05:30am
• Generative AI comes for imaginary friends 2024-09-18 05:30am
• How much of yourself do you put online? 2024-08-26 05:30am
• Conservatives are the real snowflakes 2024-08-02 05:30am
• It could be burnout 2024-07-29 04:00am
• Creative writing and AI's failure modes 2024-05-23 08:30am
• Judge the AI that exists, not the AI you imagine 2024-05-02 05:00pm
• A year back in Florida 2023-07-20 04:30am
• You're So Vain, You Probably Think This App Is About You: On Meta and Mastodon 2023-07-10 02:00pm
• Twitter, failure modes, and your favorite bar 2022-11-22 09:16am
• Thoughts on Leaving California 2022-07-15 10:21am
• BBEdit 14, and why you should care 2021-07-19 03:32am
• Panic’s Nova, ten months in 2021-07-17 07:22am
• A quick unofficial Apple Music Spatial Audio FAQ 2021-06-10 05:33am
• A quick unofficial Apple Music Lossless FAQ 2021-06-08 08:15am
• The Peril of “No Politics” 2021-04-27 02:35pm
• The Mac and the iPad aren’t meeting in the middle yet 2021-04-21 05:46am
• A brief chat about Chuck Wendig, the Internet Archive, and bad information spread in good faith 2020-10-01 12:36pm
• Panic's Nova text editor (a review) 2020-09-17 06:01am
• Signs of the old Apple 2020-03-20 05:07am
• Notes from the Road 2019-10-13 12:54pm
• The iPad needs more focus on the little things 2019-08-12 04:36am
• Review: Brydge 12.9″ Keyboard Pro 2019-07-12 03:43am
• Random (but not angry) thoughts on 'Game of Thrones' 2019-05-17 03:58pm
• Medium thinks it's a brand 2019-04-13 05:40am
• Dan Olson on Patreon 2019-02-05 09:48am
• A digression about Facebook 2019-02-05 04:54am
• Let's talk about the Tumblrpocalypse 2018-12-04 08:57am
• The new iPad Pro 2018-11-16 07:28am
• Low cognitive load blogging 2018-11-14 12:40pm
• Apple's topsy-turvy iPhone lineup 2018-09-13 07:20am
• Form over frolic: Jony Ive’s quest for boring perfection 2016-12-16 06:30am
• Bubbles, Baseball, and Mr. Marsh 2016-12-07 08:15am
• Text Editor Intervention 2011-05-04 05:30am