May 2026
A proper, open-source replacement for CleanMyMac, which has become essentially unusable at this point. It’s called Mole. Have to give it a try.
What have you tried? Four brilliant words I need to start using. All. The. Time.
April 2026
Pureblog is the kind of blogging software that I can be into. PHP based and simple. Maybe one day I’ll make the leap.
We can be pretty sure that the Democrats will learn from Orbán‘s historic defeat in Hungary that they must simply do nothing and wait for the other side to lose rather than find a young and charismatic candidate that can galvanize several coalitions at once.
March 2026
Open Screen. An open source alternative to screen recording tools that actually seems pretty slick.
I thought this random aside from Warren Ellis was kind of interesting.
(Marc Andreesen, of all people, once suggested to me that if I produced half my usual word count a day, then the words would be of twice the quality. That, sadly, is not how it works. Also, if you follow that argument all the way down, the highest quality word count on any given day would be one.)
delphitools. A collection of small, low stakes and low effort tools. Very cool. Palette generator, SVG optimizer, image convertor, background remover, px to rem, regex tester, etc, etc.
February 2026
Spite. A music player that is local first, but still shareable. I’m still using Museeks but this is one to keep an eye on.
January 2026
In Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Roy Bland captures a cynical, post-ideological, corrupt English society: “You scratch my conscience; I’ll drive your Jag.” You could say the same of today’s Silicon Valley. It used to believe it could change the world. Now it just hopes the world won’t change its stock price.
Think Different? Not anymore.
Om captures the lost soul of Silicon Valley. Where do we go from here?
Stuart Robson may have solved the problem of refactoring legacy CSS. Though I have to be honest, the web history buff in me just wants to use this to do some genuine digital archaeology on some long-running codebases.
Look how cool this is:

Trying food from every country in the world, only in New York City in the most open-hearted and curious way. Seeing something like this, in the midst of everything else, is really something.
It’s the positivity mixed with the personal accountability of Mamdani that is so unique and hopeful to me. I want to see more of it.
I never want to hear any moral grandstanding from these boys ever again. The next time Tim Cook says “privacy is a human right,” the only possible response is to laugh in his face.
Elizabeth Lopatto brings the truth over on the Verge.