Labnotes (by Assaf Arkin)

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

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.

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 ("

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

December 27th, 2025 5 min read

Weekend Reading — A double young-man

Mabelz Tech Stuff BrewServicesManager Manage Brew services from the menu bar. CSRF protection without tokens or hidden form fields New to me and quite useful: The Sec-Fetch-Site header can have one of four values: * same-origin, when the request comes from the same origin as the target server * same-site, when the

December 20th, 2025 11 min read

Weekend Reading — Sparkling spaces

ARGVMI~1.PIF "Well, you can't say you weren't warned." Tech Stuff How I wrote JustHTML using coding agents Yes. JustHTML is about 3,000 lines of Python with 8,500+ tests passing. I couldn't have written it this quickly without the

December 13th, 2025 8 min read

Weekend Reading — This heater is from space

Street Art Utopia "Painted Octopus! By Lumen Street Theatre in Limerick, Ireland." Tech Stuff Building a Toast Component This is the story of Sonner, why they came up with that name, how they managed animation and stacking, momentum-based gestures, and more. I love Sonner, the API is so