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Quick Notes 3.0 is out now 🔗
Quick Notes 3.0 is rolling out now as a free upgrade for all users. This update includes three major changes: a new way to access your notes anywhere, [...]
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 able [...]
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 Monda [...]
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 Panel Apple is allegedly using a 60Hz 8.4-inch display panel in the upcomin [...]
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, ther [...]
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. [...]
Netflix can't keep viewers for season 2, even of their good shows 🔗
Lucas Shaw: Netflix Viewers Are Abandoning Shows After One Season One Piece, one of Netflix’s most-watched shows of 2023, lost more than 30% of its au [...]
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 cont [...]
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 fa [...]
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 Schi [...]
Code is easy, writing is hard (for a robot) 🔗
Robin Sloan: Fable is very good Yet even the funkiest JavaScript function carries within it many fewer choices than a paragraph of prose. (How’s th [...]
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 [...]