mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Questioning the status quo.
I shipped my first open-source project this week! → https://ytwl.ethan.works
I had over 500 videos in my YouTube Watch Later. The playlist you keep adding to and never actually watch. I'm now down to 200, and enjoying YouTube again.
It comes in two parts: a userscript that adds selection and export to any YouTube playlist, and the webapp where you drop it in, and get channel grouping, sorting, and semantic search powered entirely in the browser.
Crazy new dystopian feature you need to disable if you own Ring cams (or just throw them away)
https://www.theverge.com/news/790928/ring-search-party-cameras-default-opt-out
Trying the Codex app today and really not impressed… Still not possible to edit a message or branch off a thread even though they implemented these in the CLI, and overall 5.2 Codex as a model is so slow (even in medium) and has the shittiest instincts and coding patterns…
In general, apps that integrate "advent calendars" aren't great, but Revolut takes the 💩 crown this year: except for the first day, all their "gifts" require you to buy stuff to receive. Happy holidays from the Product Growth Manager there I guess…
"Gemini 3 Pro is the best model currently" my a**, asking for restaurant recs in Paris, it just gave me some closed places, and after searching and thinking for five minutes………
Gotta love it when an app released today by Google (Antigravity) doesn't respect the Tahoe icon mask…… Always the same attention to detail 🙃
Hey, did you ask for your screens to casually show you fake family pictures featuring stuff you could buy? Because it's coming!
https://www.theverge.com/news/798174/directv-glance-ai-shoppable-screensavers
Meta and its executives have no idea what they're doing with the metaverse play. It's so interesting because they seem to be unable to replicate anything that has worked or is working in the likes of Second Life, Fortnite, Roblox…
https://www.theverge.com/column/797624/meta-metaverse-horizon-worlds-mobile-vr-social
A story in two headlines:
Sept 30. "Amazon finally did the damn hardware right" https://www.theverge.com/tech/788051/hands-on-amazon-alexa-echo-show-11-echo-dot-max-echo-studio
Oct 9. "Amazon's giant ads have ruined the Echo Show" https://www.theverge.com/report/797672/amazon-echo-show-ads-alexa-plus
Fin.
Super cool video on the next major evolution of the most used audio software ever
Someone tell these people you don't need to work 7 days a week for... insurance
I've never been lied to has much as by this prompt.
