Android

Comic: the host glares at his phone while a gremlin inside the screen rubs out his half-typed text with a giant eraser and another smothers a notification bell with a pillow. He yells STOP EATING MY TEXTS!

Six Hours Later: The First App

MY OWN TEXTING · MESSAGE 04 · VERSION ZEROThe fastest way to learn what you want is to use something that isn't it. The question My first instinct on port day was to skip apps entirely. I live in Telegram, so I asked for a bot that would let me text through it “so I don’t have to deal with a weird app.” That works for alerts. It’s miserable for actual conversations with forty different people. ...

The host leans back with a coffee while glowing lines run from two docked phones out the window to a small robot on a cloud.

I Handed My AI the Keys to My Android Phones

How Claude and I set up remote ADB over Tailscale that survives every reboot, so my AI can fix settings, clean up notifications and push app updates to my phones from anywhere. Plus the traps we fell into on the way.

Wispr Flow's Android Bubble Was There—It Was Just Invisible

September 5 update: Wispr failed again, Android restarted, and my recovery helper also failed. I paid for Letterly despite preferring Wispr. Here is what the logs prove—and what they do not.

A microphone and four-button controller turning a rough voice waveform into clean text on a computer and phone

Wispr Flow Is Great Dictation, Not a Transcript

I wired Wispr Flow to a four-button controller, used it across Windows and Android, and learned exactly where its AI cleanup helps—and where it quietly changes the record.