Dragon Quest and vibe coding (stick with me here)
I was listening to the latest episode of The Besties, and they said something about the auto-battle system in the new Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined game that really resonated with me.
It is funny, as you progress through, if you're just auto battling the whole time, it will, it's just
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+ Full demo of that new app
I announced a new app last week and have made good progress on it since then. Here is a video walkthrough of everything I've got so far.
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Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime show still slaps
I don't know if there's a Super Bowl halftime show I've rewatched more than this one. Obviously it helps that Kendrick has a great library to pull from, but I also really love the production value of it. It's unquestionably less bombastic than shows from The Weeknd
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A year in the life of MKBHD
I think The Studio, the behind-the-scenes channel for MKBHD, is always fun, but this most recent video, a feature-length documentary following the team as they go through all of 2025, is astounding. Amazing work from the team putting this together.
Renewables continue to thrive
I was looking for one of my old posts about energy, and I stumbled across this one from 2020 where it was expected that all renewable energy sources combined out overtake coal for energy production in the US. That was a huge milestone and definitely something to be excited about, but I was curious how
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AirDrop is coming to more Android phones in 2026
Adamya Sharma: Google just confirmed what Android fans have been praying to hear about AirDrop sharing
Speaking during a press briefing I attended at Google’s Taipei office during a Pixel Labs tour, Eric Kay, Vice President of Engineering for the Android platform, confirmed that AirDrop interoperability is set to expand well beyond Pixel phones
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Nvidia delayed gaming chips, may not deliver next gen ones until 2028
Stevie Bonifield: Nvidia’s RTX 50-series Super refresh is delayed, and the RTX 60-series might miss 2027
The Super refresh to Nvidia’s RTX 50-series GPUs was expected at CES 2026 in January, but it didn’t make an appearance. The Information reports that in December, Nvidia managers decided not to release
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Begun, the tech pricing apocalypse, has
Edmond Tran: Steam Machine Pricing and Release Affected by Memory and Storage Price Hikes, Says Valve
Valve has published a blog post providing updates on the lineup of Steam Hardware that it announced late last year – Steam Machine, Steam Controller, and Steam Frame – indicating that it has postponed plans to announce specific pricing and release
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Complexly becomes a nonprofit
James Pollard: Hank and John Green's studio becomes a nonprofit as they aim to make 'trustworthy content' online
“Part of what Complexly’s trying to do is create good information on the internet,” Hank told the Associated Press. “Let’s actually just say that this is our goal. Like, our goal
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Gemini is catching ChatGPT
Lauren Forristal: Google’s Gemini app has surpassed 750M monthly active users
In comparison, Meta AI has reported nearly 500
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OpenAI swears their ads won't do what every single other ads platform has done
Richard Lawler & Hayden Field: Sam Altman responds to Anthropic’s ‘funny’ Super Bowl ads
OpenAI says its ad test will only appear for logged-in users on free or ChatGPT Go accounts, while maintaining that “Ads do not influence the answers ChatGPT gives you. Answers are optimized based on what’s most helpful to
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Micro app 9: Railway Monitor
This micro app is a really simple one. Basically, I am working on my next app, which will be a
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Xcode gets agentic coding
Apple released Xcode version 26.3 in beta today, and it introduces a new agentic coding feature. This is different from the coding assistant they've had since last fall, and my first impressions are that it is more capable. This is good, because what Xcode had before was far, far, far behind what
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The massive success of the Nintendo Switch
Ollie Reynolds: It's Official, The Switch Is Nintendo's Best-Selling Console Of All Time
So what are the specific figures? Well, the Switch has now sold a total of 155.37 million units, while the DS was previously sat atop the throne at 154.02 million. The Switch 2, meanwhile, has
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Micro app 8: Capacities to Obsidian sorter
This will be a short one because this app exposed an issue for me more than solved a problem long-
Yearly Run Goals
I am once again happy to announce a new app is available. Yearly Run Goals is available now on the
