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Modding a Nintendo 3DS is precise, but doable in 2025

I went through the act if installing custom firmware on my New Nintendo 2DS tonight, and I wanted to shout out this guide for being absolutely spectacular. Not only does...

Dangerous ground

Zolan Kanno-Youngs: El Salvador’s President Says He Won’t Return Maryland Man Who Was Wrongly DeportedIn an Oval Office meeting with President Trump on Monday, President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador...

Who pays tariffs

Lee Morris of Fstoppers on how tariffs impact him, as someone who wants to make his stuff in the US:This is a really good breakdown of how tariffs impact small...

A few recent examples of beautiful, distinct TV cinematography

Instead of posting collections of interesting videos every once in a while, I'm going to try treating them like regular old link posts: here's a video, here's what I think...

Hark! A new CGP Grey video!

I personally find this argument quite compelling, but I looked up arguments against discontinuing production of the penny and nickel and they basically revolve around fears around prices rounding up...

Pulling myself out of the pit

I'll be honest, I wasn't an iOS veteran engineer when I started work on Quick Reviews at the start of this year. I'm really proud of what I made, I'm...

Say hello to another Quick Stuff app

Another day, another little app on Quick Stuff: Markdown Converter. This one also solves a personal need I have, which is that I write the show notes for my podcast...

Nothing in your workflow is permenent

My friend and podcast co-host Chris Lawley just posted a video about how his relationship with the iPad has changed over time. I linked to this on social media and...

You did not put a lot of time into this

Chris has an external drive faster than you’ve ever seen, Matt has a new email app he swears isn’t his new favorite cult, and the whole gang does their best...

A project to smooth relations with devs

Theo in a video about some recent Visual Studio Code drama:We have to remember the role of VS Code. VS Code was never, ever, ever meant to make money. Microsoft's...

Tariffs, integrity, and chaos

Ben Thompson: American Disruption (emphasis mine):[T]he most important components for executing a fundamental shift in trade are those that go into building actual factories, or equipment for those factories. In...

Say hello to Quick Chapters

I said that Quick Stuff was a place for me to put those little web utilities that I just need sometimes, and I've already got a new entrant: Quick Chapters.This...

Meta got tricky with LLM benchmarks

Oh boy, Meta released their latest llama models this weekend (I guess because they leaked, hence the rushed weekend release?), and it benchmarked quite well on LMArena. However, as Kyle...

All the Switch 2 pricing questions I had last week are answered

Last week I wrote 2 main posts in reaction to the Nintendo Switch 2 announcement, and today we have new info on some of the open questions that lingered waaaay...

+ Power users need love too

Remember when the Switch 2 was *only* going to cost $449?

Nintendo Life: Nintendo Delays Switch 2 Pre-Orders in the US Amidst New Trump TariffsNintendo has delayed pre-orders for the Switch 2 in the US while it evaluates the potential impact...

Let's move on from post-credits scenes

Director James Mangold: talking about whether he'd want to put a post-credit scenes in one of this movies back in 2018The idea of making a movie that would fucking embarrass...

How Nintendo's "game-key cards" actually work

I've seen a remarkable amount of misunderstanding out there on how Nintendo's game-key cards work. People are losing their ever loving minds over all things Switch 2, but this one...

People’s passion for art made by humans persists

M.G. Siegler: A Spirited Debate Around AIThis isn’t the end of art. It may indeed be the dawn of a new age for art. And that may not devalue the...

Peanut butter toast

You never know what moments have staying power until they hit you.