🔥 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

Expense — receipt tracking for easier tax filing

$9.20 to vibe-code an app into existence in one week. It's made of 38,000 lines of code and 15,700 lines of comments. Tests make up about 21% of the code. Spec size is about 3,200 words. I understand that "vibe code"

Weekend Reading — The elderly health category

Pixelcats "Opened the mail .. Derpy arrived early! SQUEE!" Did I just vibe-code an app because I didn’t like the new UI? Why yes I did. I’ve been using Expensify for many years to keep track of my expenses. It was good. There were a few

The Art of War, Applied to Litigation

I have an AI agent that helps me handle legal cases. It's not a lawyer, but I can iterate with it for hours on different scenarios, work on collecting evidence, ask clarifying questions, etc. It charges me an hourly rate of $1.20, so 100x cheaper than an

Weekend Reading — Industrial complex

Laura Tech Stuff MacPaw releases CleanMyMac CLI for cleaning developer and AI environments on macOS I love that it's a CLI, super easy to use, and cleans up your developer caches, build artifacts, and AI coding junk. brew install cleanmymac Writing & Editing Stack Using Zed, Harper, Vale,

Weekend Reading — I am so far behind on my procrastination

Cat "Jeez, would you look at the time?" Tech Stuff InkLeaf Foldable screen, but not a phone — an e-Ink tablet on which you can read and write. Stylus included. In defense of not understanding your codebase That’s why many engineers take up open-source projects in

July 11th, 2026 8 min read

Weekend Reading — I’m bringing .exe back

David Phd "The British are adding panels to the Bayeux Tapestry while its in London" Tech Stuff Chatto is now Open Source! Chatto aims to be the group chat application that you actually enjoy using. You’re probably familiar with the one that rhymes with “knack”, or the

July 4th, 2026 6 min read

Weekend Reading — Hydrate like a data center

Shawn "Fruan" Poulsen "Thirst trap" Tech Stuff SmoothCSV CSV editor without the Excel overhead. Features include smooth cell editing, SQL queries, cell and row swapping, command palette, and more. Since it's a Tauri app, minimal memory usage and super smooth UI. Wordgard Open-source

June 27th, 2026 7 min read

Weekend Reading — It's gettin' hot in here …

Tjeerd Royaards "Hot. Cartoon from last year." Tech Stuff DevCleaner Free space on your Mac that's currently used by the caches of Xcode, npm, Cursor, Claude, et al. Runs local, minimum memory footprint, and there's a free version. Cotypist Text auto-complete that runs

June 20th, 2026 7 min read

Weekend Reading — A sourdough finisher

CrankGPT The human-powered, local-first, private AI. Tech Stuff Lettera Based on Bear's remarkable Markdown editor, a standalone app for editing Markdown files from your file system. I like Bear's Markdown editing, so I think Lettera is an interesting idea. Currently beta release, so no