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Chapterize 2: a new generation 🔗
I'm happy to announce that Chapterize 2 is out today, and I think it is an essential tool for anyone who has a podcast. The app is free to try and has [...]
+ 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 the command line on your Mac. I [...]
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 Odysse [...]
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 v [...]
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 a [...]
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 Ital [...]
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 [...]
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 changes: a new way to access your notes anywhere, [...]
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 at least 3x per week for my various projects. It [...]
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 was I would hear a voice and not quite be able [...]
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 Monda [...]
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 upcomin [...]