Labnotes (by Assaf Arkin)

Weekend Reading — Known to cause boys in yards

Marcel "It's embarrassing how quickly a bit of sunshine can change my mood." Tech Stuff Current is a new RSS reader that’s more like a river than an inbox If you want to enjoy RSS give Current a try. $9.99 as a one-time fee,

Weekend Reading — The Cone of Uncertainty

Dinosa Labs "Bueno, ahora sí, os presento a CLOROPLASTO, la minúscula ciudad de la fotosíntesis 🪄✨🌱😌" Tech Stuff npmx If you search for npm packages frequently, give npmx a try. It's much faster and the UI is an elevated design over npmjs. skillshare SKILL.md aka "

Weekend Reading — Load bearing post

David Zinn "Jen’s response to winter is to wear big boots and keep on stomping." Tech Stuff pandoc for the people The pandoc wasm web-app is now available and allows to run any kind of document conversion that pandoc supports in the browser. The documents never leave

Weekend Reading — A very British problem

Stéphane Bortzmeyer Tech Stuff Craft Agents Claude Cowork is the Claude Code brains for working with office documents (Word docs, presentations, etc) which I think is a powerful idea. Yet, I just started using Craft Agents and I like it much better—similar in spirit to Cowork, uses Claude Code

Weekend Reading — Universe closed, use Rainbow

Natasha In "Albuquerque, NM, Rainbow road runs parallel to Universe blvd." Tech Stuff Pencil The demo looks amazing, basically an MCP server that can design your product with pixel-perfect precision. Let Claude Code be your canvas. (via Vinicius) Ian Betteridge Then, in 1999, Adobe InDesign was released, and

January 20th, 2026 3 min read

Rentail.space Launches AI-Powered Marketplace Connecting Businesses with Short-Term Retail Spaces

Rentail.space, an AI-powered specialty lease marketplace, today announced its official launch, transforming how businesses discover and secure short-term retail spaces in shopping centers across the United States and Canada.

January 18th, 2026 9 min read

Weekend Reading — A server raclette

MTV Rewind If you miss MTV from back when it was a TV station that plays music, aka the good old days. Tech Stuff dbreunig/whenwords This is seriously cool. A library that provides timeago ("in 3 days"), duration ("2h 30m"), parse_duration, human_date ("

January 10th, 2026 10 min read

Weekend Reading — So close to the end of the world

Laura Manach Tech Stuff Convert & Compress When you need to process a batchload of files: convert them to a different format, limit their width/height, compress with specific quality loss, etc. (* To make sure my webapp is performing well, I run a script that goes through all files in

January 3rd, 2026 10 min read

Weekend Reading — Where are all the coffee filters?

Volpeon "Make yourself a little foxxo companion" Tech Stuff TapHouse Manage Homebrew form the convenience of a GUI with single-click installs, doctor and cleanup tools, auto update, menu bar mode, and more. Mise Simplifies your dev setups by managing runtimes, env vars, tasks, Docker, GitHub Actions, etc. I