Arc’s sidebar and Dia’s polish on real Chromium. Free and open source. Ads and trackers stay out.
Finally got around to test Ardia, and it’s niiiice. Lot’s of Arc/Dia’s making the rounds – apart of the OG Zen Browser – but the fact they make such a big case of comparing benchmarks between Dia and Helium, convinced. And that’s was before I installed the iOS TestFlight – which really got me onboard.
Since I’ve been swiching between Chromium browsers recently, here’s my baseline list of extensions I install:
I wanted to update everyone on the next stage of Castro: I’ve decided to sell the app to Maple Media. Maple Media is a mobile media and technology company that owns and runs category-leading entertainment, productivity and podcasting apps, including Player FM.
Dammit. I thought we were on stable ground going forward. But my preferred Podcast app – for over a decade now, has switch hands. Yet again.
Doing a spike today on ADE Agentic Development Environments (ADEs). Got started getting caught up with T3 Code, but quickly arrived at Threadbear
and going down a rabbit hole that will surely completely change my AI Stack. Amazing how things can change in a month in this new era.
Lander for Reddit. Private by design. this is amazing. I’ve sideloaded Apollo for a while, but this app loads Reddit like the good old API days. Hope it lasts.
Good geekery Saturday. Had some time after lunch and used dumbtv.org to cleanup
a Fire stick, and the results are glorious. Also installed bookfusion.ink on my X4 and very impressed with the implementation. Updated spotifast.rocks to the newest version that uses Spotify Soloist, still undecided.
BookFusion Ink not sure how I missed this. I’ll install it this weekend.
While the launch of Bookwise is throwing a curve into my Readwise/Bookfusion balance, I think Bookfusion will prevail with its integration of KOreader – which works much better with my Boox Lead 2 device.
Every couple of months, Apple Passwords “loses” a password. It was probably overwritten, maybe—I don’t know. That’s the infuriating part. It’s an AppleID password. For all of 1Password’s issues, this was never one of them.
Read the first few pages of multiple fiction books I had in the backlog, and this one is what I want to continue reading tonight. So let’s make it official.
Good book. But at certain times I pushed on just because I’d wanted to see were the story ended, and it didn’t conclude as much as I wanted.
So happy that Ana pushed us to go on a hike today. It was great family time and helped clear my mind a bit – something that I really need more of.
Meet Libron Great font, and even better video. Libron didn’t replace my favorite reader font – Bitstream Iowan Old Style – but did let me to Cartisse (also in his ebook collection), which looks amazing on the X4 and its my default on that device.
Strangely happy that since I’ve left the Amazon Kindle ecosystem, there’s no hardware pulling back. These new ones are nice, but for the price of a Kindle with buttons case, there’s better alternatives hardware-wise.
Testing out Outpost Micropub client for micro.blog on the Mac. It’s very nice.
Watched: Coyote vs. Acme 🍿 with the kids over the weekend. They LOLs made it worth it by itself. I also enjoyed quite a bit. My wife wasn’t bothered by it.
Wow, kiwidesk.kiwicanopy.com is the best Window Tiling Manager for macOS I’ve tried recently. Powerful enough to be a full-time system, but simple enough to not overwhelm the user. Also, FLOSS and homebrew.
Designing a laptop stand separator with nurb is the most magic I’ve felt with AI the last few months. Specially since I had designed the same thing with Tinkercad, and it took me 10x of the time, 1/10th of the a nice design. nurb.dev
This free meeting recording from an Ex-Apple looks very nice biscottiapp.com
A good book on its own, but far from epic level of the previous 3. The pace is also very uneven. Still, if you love the series, you won’t regret it.
Confirmation that Apple will be raising prices has me thinking of upgrading my wife’s iPhone 15 Pro to the 17 Pro this summer. However, her main issue right now is space, so the 512gb option would be my preference. Which got me thinking if maybe they’ll raise prices by removing the 256gb model and “starting” at 512gb for the iPhone 18 Pro model this year?
I’m now considering using Org-mode in Obsidian to track work tasks. My procrastination by system creation knows no end.
Has there been any public comment from Jon Ive on Tim Cook stepping down as Apple CEO?
