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App Store

Unread: An RSS Reader App - App Store

Unread is a fast, typography-focused RSS reader app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac that syncs across devices and integrates with multiple feed services like Feedly, Inoreader, and Miniflux. Version 5.0 adds improved image handling for article thumbnails that intelligently crop around faces and salient details, expands syncing support to FreshRSS and Miniflux via their native APIs, and includes a bulk "mark old articles read" feature to manage feed backlogs. The app is free with optional $29.99/year subscription for advanced features like saving to read-later services, caching for offline access, and custom shortcuts.

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cuong.io

Claude Code Best Practices: Memory Management | Code Centre

Claude Code's memory management system emphasizes keeping instructions lean by storing only essential, session-agnostic guidelines in CLAUDE.md files while delegating project-specific details to a docs/ folder referenced as needed. Rather than using memory banks or frequent compacting (which wastes tokens and fidelity), users should structure workflows around architecture documents, implementation plans with checkboxes, and selective /compact usage only when context window pressure demands it while preserving session continuity.

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How-To Geek

I've used countless browser shortcuts over the years, but Ctrl+Shift+D is still my favorite

This How-To Geek piece by Tony Phillips is a personal case for Ctrl+Shift+D, the shortcut that saves every tab in the current browser window into a named bookmark folder so the window can be closed and later restored with "Open all." It is careful about limits that matter in practice: the shortcut stores URLs rather than page state (scroll position and unsaved form data are lost), it applies only to the window in focus, and some web apps or Chrome DevTools claim the key combination. The article is useful for anyone looking for a quick way to clear a cluttered browser without losing their research.

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The 5 W's

ClearList

ClearList — Sell Your Stuff Fast | AI Resale Manager

ClearList is an AI-powered resale platform that automatically generates complete listings (titles, descriptions, prices, dimensions) from photos, eliminating the manual work of pricing research and cross-posting to multiple platforms. Instead of managing endless messages asking "is this still available?", buyers queue up on a shared sale page, select time slots for pickup, and your address is only revealed to confirmed buyers—reducing the weekend chaos of selling used items to under two minutes of work.

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sixcolors.com

Migrate to Apple Passwords from your current secret-keeper – Six Colors

Apple's Passwords app has matured to feature parity with third-party managers for core password functions, but migrating to it requires careful planning because it doesn't support tags, structured data storage, or access for legacy contacts, and it only works across Apple devices and Windows (not Android or Linux). The migration process involves pruning old entries, exporting securely via iPhone/iPad to preserve passkeys, manually adding payment cards and identity information to separate Apple systems, and potentially using a secondary app like Strongbox to retain structured data like driver licenses or memberships that Passwords can't handle.

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Apple Podcasts

This Is Why People Hate the Government

The Ezra Klein Show

This Is Why People Hate the Government

25 August 2026 · 1h 17m

Plays from the show's own host. Nothing is loaded from them until you press play.

Americans waste roughly 12 billion hours annually—$430 billion in uncompensated labor—navigating unnecessarily complex government bureaucracy, a burden that stems not from incompetence but from deliberate policy choices designed to deter access to social programs and tax compliance. Programs like Social Security and Medicare demonstrate that government can be both complex administratively and user-friendly in practice, suggesting that when accessing benefits requires exhausting effort, it reflects intentional design rather than inevitable inefficiency. Lowrey argues that this "time tax" disproportionately harms the poor and that demanding simpler, more accessible government services is a matter of political choice and accountability.

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Note

Finalist

Finalist

This is the launch page for Finalist 4.0, a one-person-built daily planner app whose big pitch is compressing calendar, tasks, notes, habits, and journaling onto a single page per day, now with a real Apple Watch app, an integrated Notes tab that can sync with Markdown/Obsidian vaults, and an on-device AI "Capture" feature that turns photos or handwriting into dated tasks. Its design philosophy is explicitly anti-guilt: rolling over unfinished tasks, snoozing with one tap, and showing only what's relevant today rather than a punishing backlog. Worth keeping as a reference for a genuinely well-reviewed, actively developed planner alternative to Todoist/OmniFocus/NotePlan, especially if you're drawn to its Markdown-folder integration or Watch-first workflow.

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GitHub

only-cli/oc: Turn any website into a compact CLI tailored for AI agents. Browse the web in hundreds of tokens, not tens of thousands.

oc is a CLI tool that turns any webpage into a compact, numbered text interface so AI agents (Claude Code, Codex, etc.) can browse without choking on raw HTML — it impersonates Chrome to dodge bot blocks, ships tuned shortcuts for 20+ sites like HN, GitHub, and language docs, and supports authenticated sessions via cookie jars. Worth keeping mainly for the benchmark numbers: 142x fewer tokens than raw HTML, the only reader that returned real content on every one of 15 tested sites, and cheaper/more accurate than Claude Code's built-in WebFetch/WebSearch on real lookup tasks. Good reference if you're building or evaluating agent web-browsing tooling and want a concrete alternative to screenshot- or full-HTML-based approaches.

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WIRED

Stop Touching Your Keyboard. Use This AI-Powered Microphone Instead

Relay is a London startup building dedicated hardware and software for voice-to-text dictation, addressing the problem that existing transcription tools work poorly in shared office spaces where whispering is too quiet and normal speech is too loud. The company's Relay Q microphone, launching in early 2027 at $150, is designed to capture accurate dictation at any volume, while the accompanying macOS software (arriving today) uses Google's Gemini models to transcribe, clean up speech, and execute contextual actions like scheduling calendar events or drafting messages in apps like Slack and Gmail. The software's transcription accuracy is respectable but not yet matching Google's latest offerings, though the dedicated hardware should improve performance compared to using standard computer microphones.

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How-To Geek

My morning RSS digest now runs on local AI, and I'll never go back to NotebookLM

The author built a local AI-powered RSS reader that automatically summarizes feeds using Gemma 4 running on Ollama, avoiding cloud services like NotebookLM while removing manual copy-paste steps and tier limits. The setup prioritizes privacy by processing everything locally, allows scheduled digest generation throughout the day, and can handle unlimited RSS sources, though it accepts the trade-off that smaller open-weight models won't match frontier AI reasoning capabilities. He plans to integrate it with his existing Discord bot and voice assistant to enable audio briefings and interactive questioning about the digests.

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Yanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News

Back to School Isn’t Just for Kids – 8 Gadgets & Tools That Reorganize the Whole House - Yanko Design

This article presents eight practical gadgets designed to restore household organization as summer transitions to fall, each addressing a specific friction point—from scheduling visibility to desk cable management—without requiring lifestyle overhauls. Rather than advocating wholesale organizational systems, the piece treats each product as a targeted solution to everyday problems that accumulate over unstructured summer months, emphasizing durability and intentional design over novelty. The author argues that an organized house results not from appearance but from removing daily annoyances, and recommends starting with whichever product solves your most persistent time-waster first.

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Claude

The Claude Code Guide For Startups | Claude by Anthropic

This guide distills operational practices from over a dozen fast-growing startups that use Claude Code to accelerate product development and internal processes. The companies featured—including ClickHouse, Clay, and Artemis Security—demonstrate how agentic AI can democratize coding (enabling non-technical employees to ship features), automate repetitive work across development lifecycles, and create feedback loops where internal AI tools directly inspire customer-facing products. The guide emphasizes five principles: enabling everyone to contribute code, automating mechanical tasks so engineers focus on high-judgment work, maintaining rigorous verification systems, constantly rebuilding as model capabilities evolve, and using internal prototyping to refine products that incorporate AI.

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Miles Burke

15 Fantastic and Free Blogging Tools When Writing Posts

A personal, curated rundown of free (or freemium) tools the writer actually uses monthly across a busy multi-blog writing schedule, grouped into editing/writing, planning, visual, and SEO categories — covering things like Hemingway and Google Docs for drafting, Capitalize My Title and a self-built US/UK spelling fixer for polish, plagiarism checkers for vetting guest posts, Trello and a self-made stale-content auditor for workflow, Canva/Photopea/unDraw for visuals, and Ubersuggest/Yoast for SEO. Worth keeping as a practical, tested toolkit list rather than a generic "best tools" roundup, since it explains why each tool earned a spot in the author's real editing workflow.

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www.milesburke.co

15 Fantastic and Free Blogging Tools When Writing Posts

A curated, personally-tested roundup of free (or free-tier) blogging tools the author actually uses weekly, organised into editing/writing, planning, visual, and SEO categories — covering things like Hemingway and Google Docs for drafting, plagiarism checkers for vetting guest posts, Trello for pipeline management, Photopea/Canva/Undraw for images, and Ubersuggest/Yoast for SEO. Worth keeping as a practical, no-fluff toolkit reference rather than a theory piece, including two of the author's own side-project tools (FixSpell for US/UK spelling conversion and AuditFresh for finding stale content). It's framed around a real multi-blog workflow, so the picks are geared toward speed and volume rather than one-off perfection.

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