🔥 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

Finding things in Expense

The search box on the expense list in Expense understands fields now. report:, category:, and merchant: match exactly, case-insensitive, and description: matches anywhere in the description. Values can contain spaces: report:2026 travel is one filter, not two. Repeating a key ORs (merchant:shell merchant:chevron), mixing keys ANDs,

Weekend Reading — It’s a good day to have a great day

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 market, you can make some insightful choices. Write the task, optional date

How Expense reads a receipt

Every receipt that lands in Expense has to become structured data: merchant, date, amount, category. A language model can do that, but model calls cost money and seconds, so the pipeline is designed around not making them. Most receipts never reach a model. The order goes like this. Text first.

Cmd+K at Expense

Expense now has a command palette. Press Cmd+K anywhere (Ctrl+K on Windows and Linux) and type what you want to do. Go somewhere, add something, search, export. The mouse is optional. Some of the keys I actually use: * g e expenses, g r reports, g m emails, g

Weekend Reading — At the POST office trying to GET my mail

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 software industry emulating fast fashion, because AI makes software so cheap to produce. We'll

September 1st, 2026 3 min read

Connect Fastmail: your receipts move from inbox to Expense

Most expense apps only auto-import receipts from Gmail accounts. Expense now works with Fastmail — this is how it works, what it gets right, and what it lacks. I built Expense for people who file taxes as individuals — freelancers, self-employed, side hustlers. The pain point is always the same:

August 29th, 2026 12 min read

Weekend Reading — FRAP aka as "the zoomies"

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 this very topic. I think LLMs can do a remarkably good job

August 25th, 2026 1 min read

Reconcile in Expense

And I made a cool thing in Expense that I find incredibly useful. Once a month comes along and I have my statements, I import the PDFs into Expense and let it reconcile the expenses. It looks up if the expense already exists in my list and reconciles it if

August 22nd, 2026 8 min read

Weekend Reading — Kanban it

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. Sadly, there are not enough services that support the Fastmail API