Quick Notes 2.0 is out now
Quick Notes has a major update out now that has my favorite new feature in the app, a whole new
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UbiSoft is serious that this game is totally coming out
Zack Zwiezen: Beyond Good & Evil 2 'Remains A Priority For Us,' Ubisoft Says
Ubisoft has confirmed with Kotaku that it is still working on the long-in-development sci-fi sequel Beyond Good & Evil 2. This follows previous reporting that the game survived Wednesday’s massive restructuring, which saw seven games
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+ Don’t call me a vibe coder
I think I'm an early adopting into the future of mainstream development.
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Trump invited his friends over and you’ll never guess who happily showed up (with movie snacks, I can only assume)
McKinley Franklin: White House Holding VIP ‘Melania’ Screening Ahead of Doc Premiere With Mike Tyson, Tim Cook, Andy Jassy and More (Exclusive)
Guests include director Brett Ratner; Queen Rania of Jordan; Zoom CEO Eric Yuan; Apple CEO Tim Cook; New York Stock Exchange CEO Lynn Martin; AMD CEO Linsa Su; Mike Tyson; socialite and Fiat
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The White House is creating their own reality
Violet Jira writing for NOTUS: White House Admits to Sharing a Fake Photo of Minnesota Activist After Her Arrest
The White House communications team posted a digitally altered photo of Nekima Levy Armstrong, a Minnesota social justice activist, on Thursday that makes it appear that she was weeping during her arrest by federal agents. The
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Micro app 7: Quick Tier List
I'm excited to share another micro app with you today, and this time, I'm making it
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Micro app 6: SRT Tester
This is probably the quickest I've gone from zero to functioning app in this series so far. Last
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What's making us stupid now?
Nicholas Carr writing for The Atlantic: Is Google Making Us Stupid?
Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s changing.
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Thing that everyone with a functioning brain said about tariffs is indeed happening
Tom Fairless writing for The Wall Street Journal: Americans Are the Ones Paying for Tariffs, Study Finds
By analyzing $4 trillion of shipments between January 2024 and November 2025, the Kiel Institute researchers found that foreign exporters absorbed only about 4% of the burden of last year’s U.S. tariff increases by lowering their
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Everyone experiments a little in college (or, should I say, experiments with Linux, and by college I mean in 2026)
Stevie Bonifield writing for The Verge: I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows
Customizing every visual element of my desktop has become one of my favorite parts of using Linux. It doesn’t offer any performance boost or practical benefit; it’s just fun.
Two quick things on this…
One, I
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I'm learning so much non-AI stuff by using AI
Casey Newton quoting one of his readers: Meta’s scam problem, UK edition
I did not know what an SQL database was, and GitHub’s interface used to give me hives. And through this process I have actually learned quite a bit about how to use them. That’s actually super cool! For whatever reason
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ROG Xbox Ally X review: amazing performance, but the worst software I've ever used
The ROG Xbox Ally X is a story in two parts. On one hand, you have hardware that is, in many ways, truly outstanding. On the other, you have a software experience that is an unmitigated disaster. It ruins the product in fundamental ways and is very possibly the worst software experience I’ve had
ChapterPod is out now!
I'm excited to announce that ChapterPod, my new app for adding chapters to your podcasts, is now available
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Micro app 5: MP3 Dreams
MP3 Dreams was a little experiment to see how much of a viable music player I could create in an
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Fast track another one of those gold trophies!
Jeanna Smialek: After U.S. Reignites a Trade War Over Greenland, Europe Weighs Going All-Out
Europe has a trade weapon specifically created to defend against political coercion quickly and forcefully, and as Mr. Trump’s threats sank in, policymakers argued that this is the time to wield it.
The tool — officially called the “anti-
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Micro app 4: App Store Images
This is an exciting micro app because it's the first one I'm releasing to the public.
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Moving beyond consoles
This video from Brendon Bigley resonated with me. A PC is really the ideal gaming platform in 2026, and it's only getting better. I have a PS5 that I got back in 2021, but the only game I played on it in 2025 was Death Stranding 2. Everything else was played on my
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Worldwide enemies of sovereignty now includes the United States
Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom in a joint statement:
We will continue to stand united and coordinated in our response. We are committed to upholding our sovereignty.
I remember when this is how the world would respond to Russia and China's actions, not the United States&