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Happy Sunday everyone!

This week I've been using this indie Dad-produced PokePricePal to help my kids and me not get ripped off at a Pokemon card show, wishing I could justify grabbing one of these gorgeous PANAM Luggage Tag recreations (thanks to Dan's excellent SimpleBits Newsletter), debating grabbing that cassette player I posted a few weeks back now that it's back in stock, finally playing Sea of Stars on my Switch now that it's also available on iOS, and enjoying vibe-coded space projects like the lovely Rovers.Land that make it easy to follow the Curiosity Rover's travels across Mars with first-person (rover?) views on every day of its journey.

🖥️ AstroPad Workbench - The folks at AstroPad, makers of the excellent Rock Paper Pencil iPad accessory, just launched a really nice tool for remotely accessing and controlling your Mac from your iPhone and iPad. It's got a clean, easy-to-understand UI, and in my early testing was easier and more intuitive to get up and running than my current VNC tool of choice, Screens. Worth checking out if you ever need to quickly remote into your Mac to look something up, control an on-device AI agent, etc.

🩳 Roark Layover Walking Short - I'm no style icon, but living in Texas I'm always on the lookout for some good shorts come this time of year as temperatures routinely start landing north of 80ºF/27ºC. I recently discovered these Walking Shorts from Roark and am really digging them for their comfortable/flexible/breathable fabric that doesn't look like a tech fabric, and some nice travel features like zip-and-flap pockets and a back phone/stash pocket. Weirdly, this particular model of shorts with the drawstring waist is only $30, compared to the very similar model with a button waist that goes for $79.

🧠 Obsidian + Claude Co-Work - While I'm still using Notion for all of my work stuff, I've been using Obsidian lately in combination with Claude Co-Work for a really smart Personal Knowledge Management solution. This video captures the concept well, but in short, you capture thoughts, articles, web clippings, etc. in your Obsidian vault, and then set an automation task in Claude Co-Work to parse your vault and build a robust wiki around the information you capture. By design, you keep all the content you create and capture in one part of the vault, and everything the AI does in a separate part so there's no intermingling. The beauty of this model is that Obsidian is built around plain text files in folders on your computer, which means you can use really any text editor you want AND you can use any agentic LLM you want for the parsing, and you can change both the app and the AI effortlessly.

☑️ FloatyDo for MacOS - FloatyDo is a remarkably simple but delightful to-do list app that floats above all your other apps, so that you can always see exactly what you need to be working on next. It is highly customizable with different color, font, and UI changes available. Will this replace Apple Reminders, Things, or OmniFocus? No… but if you just want a simple way to keep track of what you need to do next, this might just be the move.

⌨️ Keeby for MacOS - Keeby is a new arrival in the last week or two that plays highly customizable mechanical keyboard sounds as you type away on your computer. Perfect for when you're using your laptop away from home, or if you're just wanting to test out the sound of different keyboard switches before you commit and buy one. I've previously used Klack to this end, but Keeby looks to offer way more customization plus the added benefit of spatial audio.

That's it for this week. May you be happy, healthy, and at peace.