Weekend Reading — At the POST office trying to GET my mail

A nosy polar bear and a lucky squirrel: Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026 shortlist Some wildlife photos for your viewing pleasure. The world is changing. This weekend we got a post about the software industry emulating fast fashion, because AI makes software so cheap to produce. We'll

Connect Fastmail: your receipts move from inbox to Expense

Most expense apps auto-import receipts from Gmail. If your mail lives anywhere else, you are the import. Expense connects to FastMail directly now. Link your inbox once and receipts file themselves as they arrive, merchant, amount, and category filled in, dated by the email. Two steps: 1. In FastMail,

Weekend Reading — FRAP aka as "the zoomies"

Clarissa "What if we kissed on the Cray supercomputer loveseat?" Vibe coding and quality "When you hear that some app was “vibe coded”, how much quality do you expect?" I was just wondering about this very topic. I think LLMs can do a remarkably good job

Reconcile in Expense

And I made a cool thing in Expense that I find incredibly useful. Once a month comes along and I have my statements, I import the PDFs into Expense and let it reconcile the expenses. It looks up if the expense already exists in my list and reconciles it if

Weekend Reading — Kanban it

nivs I second that recommendation: An Update on Leaving Gmail for Fastmail. I've been using Fastmail for over a year now and I like the progress they're making adding useful new features to the app. Sadly, there are not enough services that support the Fastmail API

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