Topic

Shortcuts

Mentioned in 47 issues, from Jun 2018 to Nov 2025.

Issues

  1. Weekly Thing 332 / Compute, Avatar, Cryptography

    Pagefind static search, URL as state, writing agents, Micro.blog Studio video, Apple Steve Jobs red line, Git AI 1.0, GPT-5.1.

    32 links 4.1k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  2. Weekly Thing 328 / Agents, Pulse, Vision

    MCP in Practice, Locally AI, Cloudflare Founders Letter, WiFi and students, AWS S3 one petabyte per second, Claude Code, ChatGPT Pulse.

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  3. Weekly Thing 325 / Platform, Agents, Legacy

    Project Indigo camera app, Warp 2.0 agentic environment, MCP eating the world, Apple AI in Shortcuts, digital legacy planning, gold bull-market.

    30 links 3.3k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  4. Weekly Thing 324 / Agents, Shortcuts, Joy

    Good writing, CTO and CPO in generative AI, Shortcuts app iOS 26, multi-agent research systems, AI agent success rates, conversational SDLC.

    28 links 3.9k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  5. Weekly Thing 321 / Saluting, Tetris, Sky

    o3 finding CVE-2025-37899, Claude 4 system prompt, MCP as Web 2.0 2.0, human-AI teams, vibe coding for teams, AI-assisted development, LLMs are weird.

    28 links 3.8k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  6. Weekly Thing 315 / Innovation, Yak, Calligraphr

    Kagi search innovation, frontend treadmill, Cloudflare AI maze, bigscreen, deleting 23andMe data, Safari privacy, 4o image generation.

    20 links 2.6k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  7. Weekly Thing 313 / Agentic, Shadows, WireMock

    Succinct data structures, Bluetooth undocumented commands, Agentic System, LLMs write code, Apple AI platform pivot, DDoS attacks took down X.

    27 links 4.4k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  8. Weekly Thing 312 / Tangled, Graphing, Starlink

    LLM hallucinations in code, troubleshooting skills, real-time Starlink tracker, graphing calculator story, managers who code.

    17 links 2.5k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  9. Weekly Thing 305 / Lighthouse, Willow, Artemis

    RCS in iOS 18, Death of Intel, Willow quantum chip, Lighthouse inbox zero for RSS, itch.io AI phishing, global IT outage 2025.

    24 links 3.4k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  10. Weekly Thing 285 / Voyager, ActivityPub, Trackers

    VASA-1, Voyager 1 resumes updates, Map of the Web, Ghost building ActivityPub, killed Google Search, cryptocurrency mixing arrested.

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  11. Weekly Thing 265 / Magic, Copilot, Shortery

    iPhone 15 Pro Max camera, AI for business authors, Steve Jobs on our industry, hybrid strategy, face-scanning search engines, tokenized PokΓ©mon cards.

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  12. Weekly Thing 264 / Dazed, Zany, Llama

    Seeing our own faces, computational power and AI, Amazon Bedrock, Raspberry Pi 5, two types of PayPal dollars, synthetic social network, Google Pixel 8.

    23 links 4k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  13. Weekly Thing 263 / Copilot, Del.icio.us, Pancake

    Selling Del.icio.us to Yahoo, Microsoft Copilot, Scaling Kafka at PayPal, Philips Hue ecosystem, macOS Sonoma review, Mastercard transaction data.

    17 links 4k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  14. Weekly Thing #253 / Domains, Anybox, Currl

    GPT learning, web history, retail managers, Roddenberry Archive, Scouting technology, Anybox bookmarking, Amazon growth, investing in RSS.

    24 links 3.4k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  15. Weekly Thing #249 / GPT, Privacy, Crypto

    Steve Blank on ChatGPT, BloombergGPT, LinkedIn ghostwriters, S-GPT shortcut, Tim Cook on Apple, smart locks privacy, Stripe 2022 letter.

    23 links 2.6k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  16. Weekly Thing #239 / Helmets, Bear, Smile

    Overconfidence and AI, bike helmet science, 20 years software engineer, junk food addiction, Microsoft OpenAI partnership, building a board.

    22 links 2.9k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  17. Weekly Thing #205 / Hurl, Faster, Web3

    Hype-free Web3 observations, ConstitutionDAO crypto bid, beartype Python type-checking, reMarkable notebook, Knowledge Graphs, Data Governance branding.

    30 links 3.7k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  18. Weekly Thing #203 / Discord, Family, Names

    ENS claiming, Filecoin Virtual Machine, Luau open-source, learning Rust, falsehoods about names, 750-mile bicycle route.

    31 links 4.2k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  19. Weekly Thing #202 / Goalies, Curves, Spiders

    Twenty-year truck driver, crypto cities, do-nothing scripting, Netflix Games Android, MacBook Pro 2021 review, Tesla live camera streaming.

    26 links 2.5k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  20. Weekly Thing #201 / Collecting, Smart, Stupid

    Digital death of collecting, MacBook Pro M1 Max, macOS Monterey review, CookLang recipe markup, RFC 3339 vs ISO 8601, Web3 vs Web2, Taleb Concepts.

    33 links 4.3k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  21. Weekly Thing #199 / Revolutions, Dopamine, Reconsolidation

    Technological revolutions, Coinbase NFT, dopamine and smartphones, Apple Watch Series 7, death of the newsfeed, iOS Focus Modes.

    27 links 3k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  22. Weekly Thing #198 / Facebook, News, Kyiv

    Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, phone location data market, Twitch leak, Apple A15 SoC, Web3 decentralized web, seven programming ur-languages.

    26 links 3.6k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  23. Weekly Thing #196 / iPhone 13, iOS 15, watchOS 8

    iPhone 13 Pro Tanzania, iPhones 13, machine learning, calendar as archive, Google location warrants, prehistory of DAOs, Bitcoin energy usage.

    26 links 2.3k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  24. Weekly Thing #192 / Endemic, Solidify, Zsync

    Bitcoin bubbles, Nassim Taleb, swallowed AirPods, Brave Search, smart contract security, Python future, data brokers, Leica smartphone.

    34 links 3.9k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  25. Weekly Thing #190 / WWDC, Passport, Roll

    Cloud trillion dollar paradox, Fastly crippled the Web, iCloud Private Relay, WWDC Shortcuts for Mac, end the data economy, Bitcoin Water Trust.

    35 links 3.8k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  26. Weekly Thing #180 / Tetris, Ever Given, Backstory

    Classic Tetris revolution, Zodiac Killer cipher, Ever Given Suez Canal, NFTs explained, Magic The Gathering iOS, Apple Siri voices.

    27 links 3k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  27. Weekly Thing #160 / Unlived Life, Disinformation, Snowflake ❄️

    Unlived Life, hacking Apple, 100000 Stars, Snowflake value, QAnon ban, mail-in voter fraud disinformation, aerosol spread of Covid-19.

    20 links 2.9k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  28. Weekly Thing #158 / Blacklight, Whistleblower, Fly Fishing

    Fly-fishing rods, silencing conspiracy theories, QAnon nightmare, Facebook political manipulation, Let's Encrypt certificates, GitHub master to main.

    22 links 2.5k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  29. Weekly Thing #150 / Speed, Insane Videoconferencing, OmniFocus, LaTeX

    Facebook algorithms divided users, Small Web, Obsidian, OmniFocus Omni Automation, Mongolia Covid-19 response, LaTeX.css, Deno guide, coronavirus bots.

    32 links 4k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  30. Weekly Thing #148 / What Day Is It?, Written Communication, Lisp

    Lisp programming language, COVID-19 risks, iA Writer Micro.blog, Pi-hole v5, Zoom acquires Keybase, Minnesota COVID-19 model, Dave Grohl rock show.

    24 links 3.6k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  31. Weekly Thing #133 / Clayton Christensen, iPad at 10, Ukraine, Nintendo Switch, Apple Map Expansion

    Developer coefficient, global GDP impact, women in tech, Nintendo Switch sales, Apple Maps expansion, Tetris 99, sign stealing scandal.

    22 links 2.5k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  32. Weekly Thing #132 / Backdoors, Espresso, Technical Debt, Coaching, Studio Ghibli

    Backdoors and golden keys, Phil Zimmerman, Clipper chip, brewing better espresso, technical debt Tetris, GraphQL vs REST, MindNode 7.0.

    16 links 2.1k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  33. Weekly Thing #128 / Nov 30, 2019

    Sacha Baron Cohen on Facebook, Contract for the Web, onboarding new hires, developing engineers, WeWork fall, home delivery habit.

    14 links 2.1k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  34. Weekly Thing #126 / Nov 16, 2019

    Lifelong networking, 1000 True Fans, Salesforce on Azure, Private Equity acquires .Org, Toolbox Pro, XML vs JSON, Yahoo Groups deletion, Postgres pub/sub.

    11 links 1.7k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  35. Weekly Thing #121 / Oct 12, 2019

    Writing is Thinking, managing by outcomes, iOS Shortcuts guide, new emojis iOS 13.2, China Cultural Clash, Chernobyl Reactor 4.

    14 links 1.9k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  36. Weekly Thing #119 / Sep 28, 2019

    Getting Things Done author, Darkroom light mode, Google contractors unionize, WeWork fraud, watchOS 6 review, iOS 13 Shortcuts library.

    17 links 1.4k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  37. Weekly Thing #118 / Sep 21, 2019

    Apple A13 Bionic chip, iOS 13 review, iPhone 11 Pro camera, Apple Watch Series 5 titanium, Adam Neumann WeWork, Kickstarter union effort.

    17 links 2.4k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  38. Weekly Thing #109 / Jun 8, 2019

    Michael Pollan cooking, Apple audacity, GTD workflow, iOS 13 overview, watchOS 6, iPadOS, Shortcuts automation, Shopify commerce report.

    14 links 1.2k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  39. Weekly Thing #99 / Mar 30, 2019

    Apple Card, brain on exercise, Shortcuts 2.2, Drafts for Mac, privacy not an abstraction, most important writing lesson, Distinguished Engineer.

    8 links 1.1k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  40. Weekly Thing #90 / Jan 26, 2019

    SimpleOptOut.com, love of pipes, reMarkable paper tablet, detecting agile BS, hiring senior engineers, Marie Kondo fast fashion, mentoring Zuckerberg.

    11 links 1.1k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  41. Weekly Thing #81 / Nov 24, 2018

    Zapier ARR SEO strategy, no phones allowed, manager READMEs, future of photography, Kubernetes 101, iPad Pro 2018, Facebook patent ads.

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  42. Weekly Thing #79 / Nov 10, 2018

    iPad Pro A12X chip, Google Chrome users, Flickr free accounts, Google global walkout, Lua design, startup metrics, Apple's new map.

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  43. Weekly Thing #78 / Nov 3, 2018

    Screens and kids, OmniFocus for the Web, Mac mini overview, iPad Pro overview, voting machines on eBay, logs with Rust, Tesla Model 3 teardown.

    12 links 1.4k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  44. Weekly Thing #77 / Oct 27, 2018

    Tim Cook data privacy speech, Apple Shortcuts, Google Night Sight, Pixel 3, Minnesota startups, Little Free Library, infinite scroll.

    14 links 1.9k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  45. Weekly Thing #75 / Oct 13, 2018

    Tesla Model 3 safety, OpenID decline, Instagram bullying, Apple Frames shortcut, RECaf caffeine tracking, Halide RAW camera, senior engineer's job.

    10 links 1.6k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  46. Weekly Thing #72 / Sep 22, 2018

    Linux 4.19-rc4 apology, iPhones XS, Apple Watch Series 4, iOS 12 review, 1Password AutoFill, Scriptable JavaScript, decision fatigue, Larry Page.

    21 links 2.5k words πŸ’¬ Chat →

  47. Weekly Thing #58 / Jun 16, 2018

    Siri Shortcuts iOS automation, Tim Cook interview, psychology of dread tasks, Living APIs GraphQL, Intelligent Tracking Prevention 2.0.

    17 links 1.9k words πŸ’¬ Chat →