🔥 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

Fixing USPS Informed Delivery

How I Replaced USPS Informed Delivery With a Cleaner Email Digest So I read this article and I just thought, why not try it out myself? I like Informed Delivery because it emails on days when I receive new mail, so that I don’t have to go downstairs every

Weekend Reading — The Stalk Market

Karel Titeca "Richard Scarry already summarized everything there is to know about cyber security, about 50 years ago." Yes, I just asked DeepSeek V4 to run a security audit of my code, because why not? The code is not super valuable, the service doesn't hold any

Prompt For Progress

Me just asking DeepSeek to make my app go faster, to which it replies with: The cumulative effect across all the changes so far: the list page went from 6 DB queries to 4 (removed merchants + cached rates + cached account), and the edit page went from loading all expenses to

Weekend Reading — The least you can do

a brief history of consumption This week I completed developing the expense report app. This is the software that I am working on for getting all my tax stuff together – receipts, mileage and what not. This is made using Deepseek V4 Flash and the total cost of the project so

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"

August 1st, 2026 8 min read

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

July 31st, 2026 4 min read

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

July 25th, 2026 8 min read

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,

July 18th, 2026 6 min read

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