As someone who did most of the jobs Marques talked about here for college basketball (and football and vollyball) years ago, this video really resonated with me. I've been out of the game for about 12 years at this point, but in a way it's heartening | Continue reading
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One of the key features for a read later service in my mind is a text-to-speech feature, and while that was by far the most difficult thing to implement in Quick Reads, I'm really glad it's there and I use it every day. However, I did | Continue reading
Daryl Baxter: Metal Gear Solid 2 source code leak: every surprise so farAt first, I thought nothing of it - I figured owner Konami would shut down links to it, and that'd be it. But in the weeks since, we've seen surprises like the flood | Continue reading
Mike (just Mike): Can we have the day off?If AI is going to 10x our productivity across the board, that means that I should be able to produce the same amount of output by midday on Monday that, in the before times, would have taken all week.So can | Continue reading
One concept I'm obsessed with is the general idea of whether things (art, money, anything) are getting worse, or if we're just nostalgic for when we were younger and simply didn't know as much as we do today. I also like throwing data at | Continue reading
Overworld is a new website by Brendon Bigley and Pablo Marti Cordero that's designed to be a single page to go and see what's going on in the world of video games. As someone who recently dabbled with making something like this for tech | Continue reading
The original Steam Deck launched four years ago to massive praise, and I was one of those people who absolutely loved it. It released with a very reasonable entry price of $399, making handheld PC gaming accessible to a massive audience. In 2023, Valve followed up on that success … | Continue reading
Verity Townsend writing for IGN: about how Dragon Quest 12 has been completely restartedIn a special video to mark Dragon Quest’s 40th anniversary on May 27, Dragon Quest 12 executive producer Yosuke Saito and game designer Yuji Horii shed light on the upcoming game’s current | Continue reading
This micro app is properly micro. It's literally just a Mac app that runs in the background that waits for you to hit a keyboard shortcut (Command + Option + Control + N) to see what my next meeting is.This app solves a problem that basically every other calendar app | Continue reading
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From the Railway blog: Incident Report: May 19, 2026 - GCP Account SuspensionAt 22:20 UTC on May 19, Google Cloud placed Railway’s production account into a suspended status incorrectly, as part of an automated action. This action extended to many accounts within Google Cloud. As … | Continue reading
Ben Thompson: Data Center Discontent, Understanding the Opposition, Fixing the ProblemThe point of starting with the misinformation point, however, is not to legislate it: there are plenty of folks doing just that, on both sides. Rather, it’s to note that (1) misinformation takes … | Continue reading
Today I'm excited to announce Ghosty Posty, which is the best way to publish your Obsidian notes to your Ghost blog. It is available now on the Obsidian community plugins directory for free.What it doesGhosty Posty is a straightforward Obsidian plugin that lets you take any | Continue reading
I'm happy to say that after a lengthy review process, the Quick Reads plugin is available on the official Obsidian marketplace. It may take a few days/hours for it to show up in the in-app marketplace.The plugin is designed for people like me who want to | Continue reading
A new version of Chapterize is out now that includes multi-document editing across iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. This is a free update for existing users and you can get it now.There's really not much more to say in this blog post other than if you're | Continue reading
I was checking out the App Store page for the new iRacing Connect App for the Vision Pro on the web, and I noticed that one of their first promo images was a setup screen with blatant display bugs in it (connect to my computer running on the sa… | Continue reading
A few years ago, a passion project from a few Zelda fans gave us a decompilation of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, which let it run natively on every platform known to man. Not only that, but it was able to run at higher frame rates, higher resolutions, | Continue reading
One of the cool things about the agentic coding era is how quick it is to iterate on an idea and see if it's worth pursuing further. When I was on a run yesterday, I had an idea for the a website called The Cooldown, which was a | Continue reading
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Ever since I was a child, my Mac screenshots have saved to my desktop. This is how macOS works by default, and it's what I kept doing when I finally made the jump to CleanShot back in 2020. It worked, it was fine, but it led to a | Continue reading
M.G. Siegler: Apple's Binary BetIt's just such a wild break from their peer group. And it keeps getting more wild. It seems like the most binary bet imaginable. Either Apple is right and the rest of Big Tech will have lit hundreds of billions | Continue reading
This is a quickie, but I made a simple app called Backstage that lets me view my Quick Reads analytics data from a native app on my phone. All of this lives in the web UI for me as well (something I should write about later), but just like the | Continue reading
I use Railway to host a few of my projects, and while they have a nice desktop interface in the browser, their mobile UI isn't so hot, and I wanted to make something t help me monitor things like my cost and deployments on my phone with ease. | Continue reading
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Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday last week in a skit on his show:And of course, our first lady, Melania, is here. Look at-- so beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow. You know, Melania's birthday is on Sunday. That's right. She' | Continue reading
PBS News has a quote from the very intelligent RFK Jr.: Fact-checking RFK Jr.'s claim there's more than one way to calculate a percentage decreaseKennedy said, "President Trump has a different way of calculating percentages. There's two ways of calculating percentages. If | Continue reading
I'm happy to finally announce Quick Reads is available to everyone in a sort of early access today. This has been my only read later service since February, and it's genuinely the best product for the job for me.I think the product largely speaks for | Continue reading
I got an email this morning informing me that my Best Buy credit was about to expire if I didn't use it. So I pulled the trigger on the updated Logitech MX Master 4, the latest and greatest in the quintessential productivity mouse line of the past decade. | Continue reading
Apple: Tim Cook to become Apple Executive ChairmanJohn Ternus to become Apple CEOUnder Cook’s leadership Apple has grown from a market capitalization of approximately $350 billion to $4 trillion, representing a more than 1,000% increase, and yearly revenue has nearly quadrupled, … | Continue reading
You can't cast a whole group of people as "evil" and then be surprised when they don't come around to your side. | Continue reading
Andy Nicolaides: I’m not a Pro, and that’s okay.I started to realise recently, but was fully reconciled in my mind after using the MacBook Neo for a few days. The realisation is that, when it comes to my personal devices at least, I’m | Continue reading
An update on my biggest project yet. I swear it's almost ready! | Continue reading
I really loved this quote from John Linneman on a recent Digital Foundry podcast:There was a time when they could produce games in a moderately sustainable fashion, it seems, and they didn't need to be multi-million sellers. And in fact, the big multi-million sellers could help s … | Continue reading
This post on Reddit caught my attention:Been curious about the state of the visionOS ecosystem so I pulled the numbers from Appfigures on every app released specifically for visionOS since the platform was announced. This excludes the thousands of 2D iPad/iPhone apps that are jus … | Continue reading
Zac Kew-Denniss: iPadOS 26 multitasking is so bad that I’ve replaced my iPad with an Android tabletThe biggest mistake Apple made in iPadOS 26 was making all of these changes in the iPad’s default mode. I’m the go-to tech support for a large | Continue reading
Antonio G. Di Benedetto for The Verge: I tested three Windows laptops in the MacBook Neo’s price range — there’s no contestEach has an eight-core processor (versus six on the Neo), 16GB of RAM instead of 8GB, and between 256GB and 1TB of storage — | Continue reading
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Tech, Apple, and the vast grey area that is AI | Continue reading
Today I'm sharing a pretty simple micro-app: a Claude skill that you can use in the desktop app or in Claude Code. It lets you pass in a podcast transcript and helps clean it up for you.The local models we have today for creating transcriptions are really | Continue reading
David Pierce: Vertical browser tabs are better and you should use themThe good news here is, you don’t have to take my word for it. Switching browsers is hard, and maybe you don’t want to do it just for vertical tabs. But update Chrome, right-click | Continue reading
Nintendo: About Nintendo Switch 2 Game PricingBeginning in May 2026, and starting with preorders for Yoshi™ and the Mysterious Book, new Nintendo published digital titles exclusive to Nintendo Switch™ 2 will have an MSRP that is different from physical versions.Considering Ninten … | Continue reading
Apple turns 50 today, so I thought I'd take some time to think back on some of the most memorable Apple product announcements. I'm relying entirely on my own memory, so forgive me if I get some small details wrong.Original iPhoneWe have to start | Continue reading
One of the things that raised a bit of a stink in my MacBook Neo review was the idea that it might be prudent for people looking to buy a $600-700 MacBook to also consider older devices off mainstream storefronts like Amazon, eBay, and Best Buy. To me, it made | Continue reading
Something I find myself doing from time to time is wondering if I've mentioned a piece of tech before, run a specific challenge before, or just trying to remember what episode to reference when directing people to an old episode. This data exists and could be acquired if | Continue reading
The above screenshot is from the iPad, and it's where you get to choose how you would like apps to display in the OS. Given my recent assertions that iOS and iPadOS are already the same thing, but with different exposed features on some devices, I'd | Continue reading
This morning, I pushed a small, but important update the Quick Tier List, what I think is the best tier list web app out there.Quick LookYou can now select an item from the unranked section and press the spacebar to quick look that image, just like in the | Continue reading
The latest version of Quick Subtitles is here, and it's packed with some significant UI and UX improvements. Let's dive into the UX enhancements first.Better loading indicatorsA few versions ago, I added support for third-party transcription models like Parakeet and Whisper. Unli … | Continue reading