🔥 Weekend Reading

I write a weekly email for people in tech.

Tools and products you should know about, tips about UX, management, infosec; random and funny stuff

Weekend Reading — Look Away

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 break (which I never got the hang off), but

Weekend Reading — For entertainment purposes only

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 inputs like "evry tue thu 7 30 n sat mrng". Supports sub-tasks,

Weekend Reading — The paperwork flood

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 Did you know that the mathematical value 1234.56 looks different in Boston, Berlin, and Bangalore? Hardcoding formats

Weekend Reading — First roll back, then debug

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 self-host (if you so care). Does feel overwhelming at first with all

Weekend Reading — Happy π day!

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 contributor: My “unpopular” take: I don’t

March 8th, 2026 11 min read

Weekend Reading — Go forth and prompt

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, neutral, or distracting—keep using productive sites and watch your sheep grow. If Pomodoro timer did nothing for you,

February 28th, 2026 9 min read

Weekend Reading — Sunlight with ads

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 working with AI agents and don't trust them. Also perfect if you're just prone to

February 21st, 2026 8 min read

Weekend Reading — Known to cause boys in yards

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 try. $9.99 as a one-time fee,

February 14th, 2026 9 min read

Weekend Reading — The Cone of Uncertainty

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 and the UI is an elevated design over npmjs. skillshare SKILL.md aka "