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Micro app 20: The Quick Subtitles CLI
Quick Subtitles is a great app for transcribing files on your Mac (and iPhone and iPad), and I use it at least 3x per week for my various projects. It...
Micro app 19: That Guy
I was at the theater this week seeing Minions and Monsters, and I had this feeling over and over, which was I would hear a voice and not quite be...
X is a platform built for combat (they say they’re fixing it)
Stevie Bonifield: X admits its broken algorithm made the site feel like a ‘battleground’X’s head of product, Nikita Bier, admitted in a post on Monday that X’s algorithm was “missing”...
Upcoming iPad mini likely to get OLED, retain 60Hz, and probably get more expensive
Tim Hardwick: Upcoming OLED iPad Mini Allegedly Uses 60Hz 8.4-Inch Display PanelApple is allegedly using a 60Hz 8.4-inch display panel in the upcoming OLED iPad mini, which is expected to...
Quick Reads now does todo items
Quick Reads has been obsessed with being the best way to save articles you mean to read later, and I think it's done a good job of that. However, there...
My favorite (and least favorite) movies of 2026 so far
We're just over halfway through 2026, and by my count, I've see 15 2026 releases so far. Here's a from-the-hip ranking what I liked the most to least.Nirvanna the Band...
Netflix can't keep viewers for season 2, even of their good shows
Lucas Shaw: Netflix Viewers Are Abandoning Shows After One SeasonOne Piece, one of Netflix’s most-watched shows of 2023, lost more than 30% of its audience for the second season. Season...
Xbox had a terrible strategy, and now they're laying off 3,200 people and ditching 5 studios
From Asha Sharma's letter to Xbox employees earlier this week (via IGN):To grow, we bet on Game Pass, multi-platform, and a broader portfolio of content. While those businesses have created...
Ghosty Posty for Obsidian gets edits, visibility, and delivery options
Ghosty Posty is my Obsidian plugin that lets you writing Obsidian and publish direct to your Ghost blog. In my humble (if biased) opinion, it is by far the best...
What "reasonable concerns" around trans people really means
Parker Molloy wrote what I think is a must read article that has too many quotes I'd like to make, so just go read it: Reasonable Concerns.Terry Schilling runs the...
Code is easy, writing is hard (for a robot)
Robin Sloan: Fable is very goodYet even the funkiest JavaScript function carries within it many fewer choices than a paragraph of prose. (How’s that for a sentence?) Fable can’t match...
Quick Reads keeps getting updates!
First off, Quick Reads is finally available on the App Store! Despite being only in TestFlight until today, the iOS app was still the most common way people used the...
Micro app 18: Claude Code Obsidian sync
Here's a weird one…I had a situation where I wanted to be reminded what happened in a Claude Code session a few days ago. You can revive old conversations in...
+ Weird nerds
Maybe we were the weird nerds all along.
Quick Reads now does newsletters and RSS
Since its launch, the number one feature request I've gotten for Quick Reads has been the ability to subscribe to newsletters with the service. I'm happy to say that as...
Sony is leaving physical games behind in 2028
Sony had a double-whammy of press releases yesterday. First, they announced that they were ditching physical game discs in 2028:As consumer preferences and the broader entertainment industry continue to shift...
A blown up iPhone, not the next Mac
Federico Viticci: Headless Macs and Hamstrung iPadsIn a funny twist of fate, Apple spent years trying to make iPadOS catch up to macOS on the surface, only for macOS’ underlying...
An update from the study that said devs were actually slower with coding agents
METR: We are Changing our Developer Productivity Experiment DesignBased on conversations with study participants, we believe it is likely that developers are more sped up from AI tools now —...