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+ About the Hank Green situation
Burn him at the stake! (apparently)
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No more new apps (in August)
It turns out that I have a lot of software ideas in my head. Given my penchant over the years to have more side projects than most people can imagine keeping up with, I guess it shouldn't be a surprise.
I've got 8 apps on the App Store, several web apps,
Holocloth is the coolest website I've seen in ages
Good lord, play with this thing.
Rosé Pine
We probably all know Catppuccin at this point, but have you heard the good news about Rosé Pine? neither better nor worse, but a very fun change of pace if you're looking for one.
Is Apple a software company, hardware company, or rent-seeking company?
For Apple's entire existence, there's been a sort of "debate" over what sort of company Apple is. Are they a hardware company, or are they a software company? The truth, of course, is that they're both, and their ability to deliver at the highest level on both
micro-apps
Micro app 21: ghosthunter CLI
Ghosthunter is a new CLI that lets you browse and search your Ghost site. It’s free and works with
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Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc.
Jay Peters: Xbox’s huge outage even blocked games on disc
An extended Xbox outage that began Sunday evening hasn’t just caused issues for people trying to play digital games — it blocked people from playing their disc-based games, too.
When Sony announced that they were discontinuing physical discs for PlayStation, I was less
I don't think people are reading every line of code
I would bet at least 80% of people who say they read every line of code their AI agents write, don't. I'm not saying I do or that this is a problem with today's models, I'm just saying it out loud because I feel like it'
nonogame is the nonogram app I never expected to make
TLDR: You can play three daily puzzles at nonogame.app right now!
Here is one I didn't see
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+ It's just tech
Chapterize 2: a new generation
I'm happy to announce that Chapterize 2 is out today, and I think it is an essential tool
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+ Previewing my big app updates of the summer
An early preview of the big app updates I have coming the rest of the summer.
quicksubs CLI gets more models and benchmarks
Last week I solved my own problem by releasing the quicksubs CLI, which allows you to generate transcripts easily from
They’re just so desperate
The small brained, big bigoted people on this subreddit are convinced that Rotten Tomatoes is lying to you. It's not that most people liked The Odyssey, actually a ton of people hated it! It's woke! People hate it!
Their evidence isn't on the page. No, that would be too
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Obsession and Backrooms are moving the needle
David Chen: 'Obsession' and 'Backrooms' Are Destroying Our Assumptions About the Box Office
But both films are also directed by filmmakers who found viral fame on platforms such as YouTube and TikTok, and neither film is based on legacy IP (e.g. Marvel, Star Wars, etc.). Their audiences are skewing young.
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We are not ourselves on social media
Jason Toney: I Hate The Way We Talk Online
What I got instead were weirdly defensive or hostile replies that seemed to take my innocuous question as an invitation to debate the merits of charts including conspiracy theories about their purpose. Others merely wanted to pat themselves on the back for having edgy tastes.
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Validate those AI answers, people
Ana Maria Constantin: AI advice made people three times less accurate but twice as confident, researchers found
Researchers from three French and Italian universities found that access to AI advice collapsed people’s willingness to say “ I don’t know ” from 44% to 3%. Accuracy dropped from 27% to 9%. Confidence, meanwhile, rose from 30%
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2026 is on pace for more than 1 million new app on the App Store. Just like 2016 all over again.
Kalley Huang: ‘Vibecoded’ Apps Are Flooding the App Store. Is That Good for Apple?
Last year, the number of new apps released in the App Store grew 30 percent to about 600,000, according to estimates by Sensor Tower, an app analytics firm. In the first half of this year, new apps doubled to about