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Hi, associates! Welcome to Installer No. 139, your information to the very best and Verge-iest stuff on this planet. (If you’re new right here, welcome, barbecue sauce, and likewise you may learn all of the outdated editions on the Installer homepage.)
This week, I’ve been studying about Johnny Knoxville and Google Zero and the history of the bicycle, @all-ing everybody in all my WhatsApp chats simply because I can now, rereading There Will Come Soft Rains as a result of this week is when it occurs, seeing if Sabbath can assist repair my screentime issues, as soon as once more transferring every thing round in my residence workplace, consuming altogether an excessive amount of of the fabulous Trader Joe’s snack mix, testing the Clicks Power Keyboard, and beginning to prep for my fantasy soccer drafts. Because I’ll not end final once more.
I even have for you the return of a favourite TV present, some new baggage for toting all of your gear, a few thrilling new Android apps, and far more. Let’s go.
(As all the time, the very best a part of Installer is your concepts and ideas. What are you watching / studying / taking part in / listening to / hacking into together with your AI agent this week? Tell me every thing: [email protected]. And if you already know another person who would possibly take pleasure in Installer, ahead it to them and inform them to subscribe right here.)
- Ted Lasso season 4. Lots of fine opinions for the brand new season, which can be sort of a tender reboot of the franchise. And all of the dangerous ones are like, “why isn’t there any conflict, this show is too happy,” which I depend as a great evaluate anyway. Give me extra exhibits that make me really feel higher on the finish of each episode.
- The Peak Design City Backpack. The complete lineup of City merchandise — which incorporates totes, crossbody baggage, and extra — appears to be like nice, however I’m a backpack man at coronary heart. Love a devoted AirTag pocket, love an built-in hook, love the combo of fresh design and tons of group. I actually don’t want a brand new backpack, and but…
- Bose QuietComfort headphones. Noise-canceling headphones are like AI fashions, in that it appears each one’s the very best till the subsequent one comes out three days later. I’m enthusiastic about Bose’s adaptive EQ for dialogue and the improved passthrough if you need the ANC off. I additionally just like the mint shade. Lots.
- Nothing’s CMF Clip Pro. More headphones! Nothing’s buds are usually exhausting to beat for $100. Also, open earbuds are superior. Throw within the superior orange shade I already love in my Shokz headphones, and I’m getting alarmingly shut to 2 headphone purchases this week.
- Tony. After BlackBerry, director Matt Johnson is formally in my “I will watch anything he does” class of filmmakers. Johnson’s newest, a narrative about how Anthony Bourdain bought his begin as a chef, has gotten good opinions and could be very a lot on the intersection of all my pursuits.
- Sunbird. “iMessage for Android” is a kind of concepts that simply received’t stop, and now Sunbird is again with large guarantees about fixing its earlier safety points. You ought to all the time tread tremendous fastidiously with these messaging aggregators, however they are surely a helpful thought.
- Notability for Android. FINALLY. After months of guarantees and extra months of beta checks, some of the highly effective note-taking apps is formally delivery to Android units all over the place. I haven’t used it a ton, however to this point it’s secure and quick — it’s a very large win if you happen to’re the handwriting kind.
- The Sega Dreamcast Watch. From Sega and SuperGroupies comes a particularly rad collection of watches designed like outdated consoles. You may also get the Mega Drive and the Sega Saturn fashions, however for me there’s no beating the colour pop of the Dreamcast’s controls.
JA Westenberg is a kind of individuals who all the time appears to be running a blog about what I’m eager about. “I Deleted My Second Brain” nonetheless rattles round my head every time I’m needlessly twiddling with a note-taking app, I used the phrase “cockroachmaxxing” unironically in dialog the opposite day, and I’m without end jealous of the insight that YouTube “looks increasingly like a single show with five million hosts.”
They’ve additionally constructed a few actually cool productivity-adjacent apps, together with Kerouac (which is principally like that GitHub commit chart however for writing) and just lately Post Through It, which is principally a journaling app that appears like a personal Twitter. Clever!
Anyway, I requested JA to share their homescreen to see if they could produce other sneaky ideas up their sleeve, or extra superior apps to indicate. Here it’s, plus some data on the apps they use and why:
The cellphone: I take advantage of an iPhone 17 Pro Max, 512GB.
The wallpaper: My wallpaper is Mors Imperator (“Death Is the Ruler”), by the German artist Hermione von Preuschen. It’s on show in Berlin proper now and I fell in love with it on a latest journey. She was famously banned from displaying it, and as a substitute rented a home and charged an entry payment to see it. Very punk rock / DIY for the 1800s.
The apps: Insight Timer, Beeper, Spotify, Pocket Casts, Buffer, Cursor, 1Password, Replit, Termius, Granola, Kilo, Kerouac, Post Through It, Buzz, Wikipedia, Marvel Unlimited, Linear, Medium, GenZD, The New York Times, Obsidian, Vimcal, Readwise Reader, Kobo.
My residence display is a mixture of studying, working, taking part in and so forth. I undoubtedly wish to name out Kerouac (a writing studio for professional bloggers) and Post Through It (microblogging for one) that are PWAs of the apps I launched this yr. I’m an enormous believer in net apps as a technique to keep away from app retailer gatekeeping, so I’m on a mission to make the PWAs of my very own instruments as top-notch as they are often, which implies utilizing them daily myself.
I hold the Kobo app in my dock so I push myself to learn an precise guide as a substitute of doomscrolling; and I don’t hold any social media apps put in. If I wish to put up, I’ve Buffer on my residence display, and it’s linked to my Hermes agent through MCP anyway. I take advantage of Beeper to handle my chats throughout Discord, Slack, Telegram, Signal, WhatsApp, and so forth; it’s a incredible software that in all probability rescues me from chat hell a thousand instances a day.
GenZD and Marvel Unlimited are my favorites. The first is a GZDoom shopper for taking part in Doom 1 and Doom 2, Heretic, Hexen, and their mods (3D shooters from the ’90s). The different is Marvel’s digital comics app, the place I’m trying to learn each Spider-Man story for the reason that inception of the character. Other than that, it’s work, note-taking and podcasts.
I additionally requested JA to share a number of issues they’re into proper now. Here’s what they despatched again:
- I’ve rediscovered my love for MC Lars. He’s a “nerdcore” indie rapper who got here to fame with songs about Edgar Allan Poe, Shakespeare and so forth. He’s been a favourite of mine for years, however I launched my child to his music this yr, and he’s been in fixed rotation since. “I Was Never Afraid” is his all time greatest tune.
- The Paradox are the very best band I’ve heard in a decade. They play pop punk the way in which it ought to be performed, with a lot power and pleasure I can’t not bounce out of my seat after I hear it. I like to recommend their observe “Good For Me,” which I believe goes to be on their new EP in October.
- I’ve been studying Barbarians at the Gate: the Fall of RJR Nabisco, by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar. A wild story of leveraged buyouts, Wall Street extra, and the unhinged market economics of the Nineteen Eighties. An absolute web page turner, even if you happen to’re not often all in favour of the subject material.
- My brother has began us on a Daggerheart marketing campaign. It’s a tabletop RPG that got here out final yr, with a heavy emphasis on storytelling, and it’s the freshest tackle roleplaying I’ve skilled shortly. Really makes you wish to get contained in the character you’re operating and take into consideration who they’re — which is a good train for me as a author.
Here’s what the Installer neighborhood is into this week. I wish to know what you’re into proper now as properly! Email [email protected] or message me on Signal — @davidpierce.11 — together with your suggestions for something and every thing, and we’ll characteristic a few of our favorites right here each week. For much more nice suggestions, try the replies to this post on Threads and this post on Bluesky.
“Madden NFL 27 Mobile came out! The wild part? The Apple Arcade version removes **ALL** of the recent enshittification: ads, virtual currencies, paywalls, etc. Add in the controller and Apple TV support, and it feels like playing Madden from the early 2000s, in the best way.” — Brian
“I’m waiting for my Retroid Pocket Nova so I can replay Rogue Squadron on GameCube and Need for Speed: Carbon on PS2, and I’m organizing my ROM library before it arrives.” — Josue
“Moved my gaming PC to CachyOS (tried Bazzite before and got a little frustrated). So far it’s been amazing. Also, I just upgraded my PC case from an old NZXT one to a Fractal North. These cases are no joke. So well made.” — Kolin
“Silo season three.” — Amanda
“Biological War: A Scenario from Annie Jacobsen, the author of Nuclear War: A Scenario. I honestly cannot believe it’s that easy to wipe us off the planet.” — Dawit
“Found this neat little Mac OS app, Hoy, for communicating via iCloud. Quite digging the simple UI and how it ‘sits’ nicely inside my menu bar.” — Julius
“Reading John Ousterhout’s excellent A Philosophy of Software Design to get ready for a presentation I’m making at the gRPC conference next month.” — Tim
“Watching the anime Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia. I’m enjoying learning about that period of history (the show took me into a Wikipedia hole), and I’m excited to see how the magic elements come into play.” — J
I’m about to go on parental go away, which beforehand in my life has been a great time to alter stuff on my cellphone. I delete all of the work apps, flip off some notifications, all that stuff. But you already know what’s actually making me do it this time? The Google Health app. I haven’t been sporting my Fitbit Air just lately — no good cause, simply haven’t been discovering it helpful — and each single day the app sends me a tragic notification that’s like, “Oh no, I haven’t collected any data, pretty please let’s get the Fitbit back on?” No thanks, I hate it.
Anyway, I’ve additionally been noticing that a number of the smartest individuals I do know are all the time displaying that they “have notifications silenced” in iMessage. So I’m studying from them, and turning every thing off. From now on, my cellphone can have no buzzing or noise-making notifications aside from cellphone calls. I’ll see issues after I determine to test my cellphone… which hopefully received’t be fairly often. Silent telephones without end!
In principle, I’m right here subsequent week earlier than I head out. If not, you’ll be within the very succesful fingers of Jay Peters for some time. Either approach, see you subsequent week!
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