⚡ 11JAN2026: Where the heck all our money went

Happy Sunday everyone!

This week, I've been listening to this killer cover of Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl, remembering how much I suck at Texas Hold 'Em, finally getting around to trying out Antigravity for vibe coding (it's great!), eager to try out the new Lego smart bricks, and getting extremely excited to see the X-Men join the Marvel Cinematic Universe (even though I haven't seen an MCU movie in years…)

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On to the good stuff!

• 📱 TwelveSouth Valet Tray - This is a super simple concept, but like all TwelveSouth products, it looks quite premium and well built. This minimalist valet tray offers you a sleek place to drop your keys / wallet / phone / sunglasses / etc., but with the added benefit of a built-in wireless Qi2 charger for your iPhone or AirPods. It also has a discreet USB-C port for simultaneously charging a pair of smart glasses or an iPad overnight.

• ⌚ Casio Moonphase Watch - All of my earliest watches were Casios, so they've got a special place in my heart. This new moonphase from them has this great 80's analog techno vibe to it that I'm really digging, plus I'm a sucker for a moon phase.

• 📷 Fuji Instax Mini EVO Cinema - Fujifilm announced a cool new addition to their Instax line of instant cameras this week. This new one looks more like an old 8mm film camera than the usual Polaroid-like format of the others in the line. This one is unique in that beyond shooting and printing stills, it also takes 15 second video clips, and it has a built-in dial to choose from different "eras" of film looks from the 1930's up to 2020's. It launches in Japan later this month.

• 🎮 OhSnap MCON Gaming Controller - This is a ridiculously slick full featured gaming controller that attaches to the back of your iPhone via MagSafe and can easily be folded away so it is completely invisible from the front of your phone in between gaming sessions. It features anti-drift joysticks, Hall Effect analog triggers, and can pair to up to 3 Bluetooth devices for quick switching. Ships late January.

• 💰 Copilot: Budget Tracking for iOS - As is tradition, every January I like to revisit our budget and figure out where the heck all our money went after we get through the Christmas season. My favorite app for this is far and away Copilot (not to be confused with the Microsoft AI). Copilot makes a secure connection via Plaid to all of your financial institutions and credit cards and then uses its own smarts to categorize your spending. You can tweak the categories, or make your own, and then build budgets for how much you want to spend in each bucket each month, easily getting alerts when you're getting close to your spending cap, etc. It looks great, works great, and has killer customer service. I'm a fan.

That's it for this week! May you find subtle but effective ways to rage against the machine.