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Kristin Scearce Tech Stuff tinyjs Backend with full system access, a native webview window, and that’s it. No Electron. No bundled Chromium. I like the simplicity of it, but I'm sticking with Ta...

Cat (D.Burch) Connect to Expense There's a debate going on whether MCP is better than API/CLI access, since modern LLMs have access to the CLI and can do REST over HTTP easily. I think it's a point...

Neatnik "Everything can be accessible." 🎉🎉🎉 Fastmail just approved Expense’s OAuth client. I believe we's now the first expense tracking app that can collect receipts from Fastmail (and JMAP in g...

Steven Hoefer Fold I love this. ❤️ It's yet another one-person app coded with AI that solves the eternal todo list problem. Sounds utterly redundant, but when you're not building for a huge target ...

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A nosy polar bear and a lucky squirrel: Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026 shortlist Some wildlife photos for your viewing pleasure. The world is changing. This weekend we got a post about the ...

Clarissa "What if we kissed on the Cray supercomputer loveseat?" Vibe coding and quality "When you hear that some app was “vibe coded”, how much quality do you expect?" I was just wondering about...

nivs I second that recommendation: An Update on Leaving Gmail for Fastmail. I've been using FastMail for over a year now and I like the progress they're making adding useful new features to the app...

Karel Titeca "Richard Scarry already summarized everything there is to know about cyber security, about 50 years ago." Yes, I just asked DeepSeek V4 to run a security audit of my code, because why ...

a brief history of consumption This week I completed developing the expense report app. This is the software that I am working on for getting all my tax stuff together – receipts, mileage and what ...

Pixelcats "Opened the mail .. Derpy arrived early! SQUEE!" Did I just vibe-code an app because I didn’t like the new UI? Why yes I did. I’ve been using Expensify for many years to keep track of my e...

Laura Tech Stuff MacPaw releases CleanMyMac CLI for cleaning developer and AI environments on macOS I love that it's a CLI, super easy to use, and cleans up your developer caches, build artifact...

Cat "Jeez, would you look at the time?" Tech Stuff InkLeaf Foldable screen, but not a phone — an e-Ink tablet on which you can read and write. Stylus included. In defense of not understandi...

David Phd "The British are adding panels to the Bayeux Tapestry while its in London" Tech Stuff Chatto is now Open Source! Chatto aims to be the group chat application that you actually enj...

Shawn "Fruan" Poulsen "Thirst trap" Tech Stuff SmoothCSV CSV editor without the Excel overhead. Features include smooth cell editing, SQL queries, cell and row swapping, command palette, and mor...

Tjeerd Royaards "Hot. Cartoon from last year." Tech Stuff DevCleaner Free space on your Mac that's currently used by the caches of Xcode, npm, Cursor, Claude, et al. Runs local, minimum memory f...

CrankGPT The human-powered, local-first, private AI. Tech Stuff Lettera Based on Bear's remarkable Markdown editor, a standalone app for editing Markdown files from your file system. I like Bear...

Neil "Just because you can...." Tech Stuff OfficeCLI A CLI to help AI create/read/edit Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents. Open source and doesn't require a Microsoft Office license. I just i...

Frechrotz_Pix 'Lego- bzw. Klemmbausteine' Tech Stuff pitchfork A devilishly good daemons manager: start/stop daemon, automatic restarts, health checks, file watching, cron scheduling, and many m...

So here's the thing. When a company loses a class action lawsuit and has to pay millions to regular people, they don't just write you a check. They go out of their way to make sure you never actually ...

geekysteven Tech Stuff Zed I really like using Cursor but it's a huge IDE (basically VS Code) which takes forever to load and eats up too much memory and sometimes I have to restart it just to f...

Natasha "Fragile Handle With Care" by Roman Pankoy (2020) Oil on canvas Tech Stuff Animata A collection of React + Tailwind animations and effects to enhance your UI. A pretty substantive collec...

Sophie Schmieg "Work moved to a new building. I didn't expect to take SAN damage from facilities." Tech Stuff Magic Notebook A free app, simple and elegant UI, no cloud sync, just open a folder ...

Introducing coolify-deploy — git push to your own server with the simplicity of a platform. I used to host everything on Vercel and honestly it was great. Connect a repo, push, your app is live — si...

John "Posted today by Lego on their official Instagram account. Well done, Lego, well done. 😁" Tech Stuff portless HTTPS for npm dev using .localhost URLs instead of port numbers: Portless ...

Fake Metro Trains "Due to ongoing delays with the delivery of our new Xtrapolis 2.0 trains, we've implemented some temporary measures to keep our network running." Tech Stuff What's actually new...

GeriAQuin Tech Stuff Tolaria I just added this app this to my repertoire. I didn't get a chance to use it much yet, but it looks interesting — build a knowledge you can share with your AI that's...

Niki "Most useless sign in the universe" Tech Stuff ShowMD The Markdown space is heating up 🔥 Today I installed a Markdown editor (Scratch), upgraded my Markdown viewer (mud), and setup this Mar...

Someone Turned an Old Ford Van Into a Mini Semi and It’s Fantastic Tech Stuff LookAway This is one app I have to run on my Mac. It forces me to take a break every 45 minutes — not a Pomodoro bre...

Natasha "Perfect for Easter, EGGO is a two piece construction toy" Tech Stuff PopTask As a concept I find this super interesting — a task list that lives in the menu bar and understands human in...

Holeintheheadesign Tech Stuff HopTab Open source app switcher and tiler to replace Cmd+Tab. If you Cmd+Tab a lot you may find this app quite useful. Number, currency, and unit formatting ...

Lady Laura "Pack of Dogs by John Littleboy" Tech Stuff Infisical I'm trying this service as a replacement for Doppler. Seems to have more capabilities plus it's an open-source project you can se...

Mina "It's PiDay!" Tech Stuff How to Do Code Reviews in the Agentic Era I've been working on open-source for over 25 years, I suspect that's why I accept The LLM as just another project contribu...

cliff538 "What a great artistic reuse of old license plates!" Tech Stuff Shepherd "Stay focused. Grow your sheep." Chrome extension that auto-categorizes thousands of sites as productive, neutra...

ConnectionWithWonder "Knitted bollard-warmer Weymouth" Tech Stuff UNF* Records every version of a file and can easily rewind back without having to manually commit changes. Perfect if you're wor...

Marcel "It's embarrassing how quickly a bit of sunshine can change my mood." Tech Stuff Current is a new RSS reader that’s more like a river than an inbox If you want to enjoy RSS give Current a...

Dinosa Labs "Bueno, ahora sí, os presento a CLOROPLASTO, la minúscula ciudad de la fotosíntesis 🪄✨🌱😌" Tech Stuff npmx If you search for npm packages frequently, give npmx a try. It's much faster...

David Zinn "Jen’s response to winter is to wear big boots and keep on stomping." Tech Stuff pandoc for the people The pandoc wasm web-app is now available and allows to run any kind of document ...

Stéphane Bortzmeyer Tech Stuff Craft Agents Claude Cowork is the Claude Code brains for working with office documents (Word docs, presentations, etc) which I think is a powerful idea. Yet, I jus...

Natasha In "Albuquerque, NM, Rainbow road runs parallel to Universe blvd." Tech Stuff Pencil The demo looks amazing, basically an MCP server that can design your product with pixel-perfect preci...

MTV Rewind If you miss MTV from back when it was a TV station that plays music, aka the good old days. Tech Stuff dbreunig/whenwords This is seriously cool. A library that provides timeago ("in ...

Laura Manach Tech Stuff Convert & Compress When you need to process a batchload of files: convert them to a different format, limit their width/height, compress with specific quality loss, etc. ...

Volpeon "Make yourself a little foxxo companion" Tech Stuff TapHouse Manage Homebrew form the convenience of a GUI with single-click installs, doctor and cleanup tools, auto update, menu bar mod...

Mabelz Tech Stuff BrewServicesManager Manage Brew services from the menu bar. CSRF protection without tokens or hidden form fields New to me and quite useful: The Sec-Fetch-Site header...