Labnotes
Labnotes
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
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
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
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
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