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This little app that puts a tiny teleprompter up by your Mac's "notch”/camera is genius.

But what I especially love is the way the website shows the product at work.

Very cool way to demo and grab atttention.

https://www.notchie.app/

"I can ask my agent through my phone to go and book a pizza using DoorDash…this is the beginning of the agentic web. Everything will be agent-enabled.”

Were you paying ANY attention to the whole Humane Pin and Rabbit r1 things? Do you read ANY business analysis outside of Twitter posts? These companies need you on their walled-garden platforms. This is why APIs don't exist. What you want is an API, and they won't do that. They never have. That's not how their business works.

*sigh*

I’ve spent my last few evenings doing some simple Laravel/PHP coding. Writing forms by hand. Making sure the validation works well.

It feels good to make progress. And I learned a few things.

It was very chill and satisfying. 10/10. Would recommend finding something you enjoy doing and doing it well.

RE: https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/116003422672020580

I went: SURELY SpaceX doesn’t have 250B in cash, given how much it is presumably just burning building stuff?

Then: Oh, in STOCK?

And now I just don’t understand money any more. 🤷

Checking my facts: SpaceX made 8b profit last year! But sure it has huge investor debt to pay back.

Bonkers.

I'm in "a mood”… 😠

In my mind I'm combining thoughts from the excellent Technology Connections video on solar power (https://youtu.be/KtQ9nt2ZeGM) with my own thoughts about LLMs.

And I have realised that LLM tokens are oil: you buy them, and you burn them. You can only use them once. Then they are gone.

This makes it technology that is only really beneficial to the people who “drill" for the tokens.

It does not make sense. We become reliant on LLM tokens at our own peril.

Spend money on something that lasts!

“This is the pattern I keep seeing: ship fast, capture attention, figure out security later. Except later sometimes means after 1.49 million records are already exposed.”

https://www.404media.co/exposed-moltbook-database-let-anyone-take-control-of-any-ai-agent-on-the-site/

Madness. OpenClawnmoltfacebookbot or whatever it's called is utter madness.

Publishing a vibe coded app for others to use is madness when you don't know what you're doing.

This guy who built it has a history that suggests he DOES know what he's doing. He still messed up.

"I ship code I don't read” 🤷

This lo-fi ambient music mixer is very cool. Scroll right down. Probably best on desktop?

https://www.midlife.engineering/

By which I mean… for a £20 pocket-sized keyboard it’s surprisingly good.

Way better than typing on a screen. But clearly not something you’ll type War and Peace on.

That’s an iPhone 13 mini in the photo, for the size comparison.

This is just brilliant from @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social. It's five years old. But so much resonates with me RIGHT NOW

"Delinquent Telephone Activity – Let’s make a scene and rebel against Big Tech"

https://medium.com/careful-industries/delinquent-telephone-activity-f75f815d6e9a

Party in a shared Google Doc sounds like weird fun. A great write up…

https://onezero.medium.com/party-in-a-shared-google-doc-d576c565706e

RE: https://scottodon.com/@skc/115957612396522002

I don't know what this is – do you?

Apparently the NYT has a new 2-player word game. So just a note that I too have a 2-player word game that’s free, no download, no login, no tracking.

It won’t be as good as NYTs but it has all the benefits listed above.

You play by passing web links back and forth!

https://words.pico.games/

Discovered the handmade, privacy-aware, in-browser "delphitools" today. Generators, converters, image tools. All happens in the browser. Really good.

https://tools.rmv.fyi/

h/t Click'n'Clacks: https://newsletter.clicksnclacks.com/subscribe

I have found this little tool invaluable recently. I guess, sadly, I’ve internalised thinking in social media posts a bit. I often want to get a thought out by posting it in short-form.

This little app gives me the relief and buzz of posting something, but without the risk of sharing things I shouldn’t.

(Although, as I have mentioned before, I'm sure that one day I’ll post to the wrong app and regret it!!)

I've coded up a little private journalling app that's like a one-person social network. I've called it "YouSky”. It's free.

https://yousky.veryuseful.app/

It has replies and hashtags. Works kinda like you expect. Pretty basic. But does a job.

This is 100% private. No servers. No tracking. No cookies. All data stored in your browser.

You can export to a JSON file if you want to backup or move your data.

RE: https://phpc.social/@ramsey/115948619533304726

I’m sure the words and the photos are from different press releases…

My kids are so much more excited about watching a movie on BluRay disc than streaming a movie.

CAN I PUT IT IN?

CAN WE WATCH THE EXTRAS?

WHAT DOES IT SAY ON THE BOX?

Wonderful.