Labnotes (by Assaf Arkin)

Weekend Reading — Is it me you're calling for?

MostlyHarmless "The bloody hipsters have gone too far." Tech Stuff Embeddable When you need a little widget on your website that converts traffic (newsletter signup, posted review, discount checkout, etc), why not let AI do the walking? This doesn't look horribly expensive, $19/month for 100

Weekend Reading — I'm back and I miss you all! 💋💋💋

Syulang "Soooooo.... capitalism is at it again." First the good news: 10 days ago was the 20th year anniversary of this very blog! 🎂 Many happy returns! Unfortunately, I spent last weekend in the hospital — it took them 4 days to queeze me into a one hour trivial procedure

Weekend Reading — "big" is smaller than "small"

Meanwhile in Canada "You know it's hot when the cat melts" Tech Stuff Kiro "Tame complexity with spec-driven development" Smart use of generative AI: Kiro turns your prompt into a requirements document, and then uses that to build your code, so when you get

Weekend Reading — Swipe right

diana "Yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip" Tech Stuff daisyUI What goes around comes around and this Tailwind plugin brings back proper CSS classes. And it comes with CSS classes for buttons, cards, modals, avatars, alerts, footers, you name it, there's a class

Weekend Reading — Eat plenty of fiber

a beautiful bitch "This is why i make sure i eat plenty of fiber" Tech Stuff kompressor macOS image convertor with a very interesting UI: drag & drop images into the wormhole, then toggle the kind of processing you want, and away we launch! secretlint/secretlint Linting tool

July 12th, 2025 6 min read

Weekend Reading — a24z

Information Is Beautiful "Seems to fit?" Tech Stuff kepano/defuddle When you need to clean up a web page and extract only the important contents. This library claims to offer some benefits over Readability. Sindre Sorhus You don’t need a roadmap, you need caffeine and unreasonable optimism

July 6th, 2025 10 min read

Weekend Reading — Code remains liquid at room temperature

Tiki Bunny Imports "Y'ALL. LOOK. My inner 8-year-old is beaming and SO HAPPY with 42-year-old adult me right now." Tech Stuff Remix Utils A collection of utility functions for use in your Remix (or React-Router) app. There's a big chance you'll need

June 28th, 2025 8 min read

Weekend Reading — Monotation

Uphill Rd, Joshua Tree, CA I shudder to think of how many birds have unwittingly plowed into this place. Tech Stuff Min A very minimal browser, offers more space for the web page, fewer distractions. Ryan Grove Software developers, I need you to listen to me: error states are as

June 21st, 2025 7 min read

Weekend Reading — Wrong opinions, weekly held

Jen Gentleman “I'll never be able to unsee this” Tech Stuff Nxtscape An open-source agentic browser. Basically you instruct the browser what you want it to do. Eniko Fox It's a common misconception that types exist on computers. In reality everything is just integers, except for