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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
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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
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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
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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 Monday that X’s algorithm was “missing” data about surfacing posts from people who you’ve followed back. Now, he says a tweak will “boost visibility of your posts
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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 upcoming OLED iPad mini, which is expected to be released later this year.
I obviously don’t love that they’re sticking with 60Hz for this device, but
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
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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
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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 audience for the second season. Season two of Beef suffered a drop of more than 70%. The Night Agent shed 50% of its audience for the second season
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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 content. While those businesses have created meaningful value, they did not grow at the pace we expected. As that happened, our core business weakened, and we added
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
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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 Schilling runs the American Principles Project, one of the outfits that spent years writing and bankrolling bills like the ones the court just upheld. In
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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 that for a sentence?) Fable can’t match my writing style yet — honestly, I think that’s beyond the reach of these models, because it’s just
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 people used the service. I'm glad there's less friction than there used to be. If you've been using the app and like
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Micro app 18: Claude Code Obsidian sync
Here's a weird one…I had a situation where I wanted to be reminded what happened in a
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Quick Reads now does newsletters and RSS
Since its launch, the number one feature request I've gotten for Quick Reads has been the ability to