2026-06-10 01:15:02
Apple's WWDC kicked off yesterday, and there is one update in particular that struck me, the Sidecar feature now lets you directly manipulate macOS with your finger. As you can see from the video, it's literally macOS's standard UI that's completely usable with a finger. Scroll views that are complete with physics like you'd expect, menus are usable, and yes, you can move and close windows. You can even pull to refresh views!
No "touch mode".
No toggle to iPadOS.
No Apple Pencil-only restriction.
No massively blown up UI.
It just works, if you will.
I feel like I've been writing variations on this for years at this point, but I genuinely think people have been overthinking how touch will work on Macs. I've been using macOS Golden Gate for a few hours, and if you didn't know it could be used with touch, you would never know that suddenly this UI supported touch.
2026-06-08 20:00:00
I'd actually forgotten about this, but the first thing I ever made that was in my "Quick" collection wasn't actually Quick Reviews, it was QuickPin! As I wrote in 2016, QuickPin was a Chrome extension that let you save links to Pinboard with a single click.
Honestly, I still think it's pretty good, and would use it today if I was using Pinboard.
2026-06-08 08:43:03
A new God of War game was announced recently, God of War: Laufey, which doesn't star series lead Kratos, it stars his dead wife Laufey, who passed away right before the start of the 2018 game. Of course, none of that matters, and this new game has you playing as A LADY, so a certain group of people must get angry about it.
A few things I'll hit on quickly: Laufey's looks (seriously) and the idea that "now all games have female protagonists".
First off, gamers are losing their minds that Laufey has been "ugified" for the game. I don't know man, here's a side by side of the voice actress (Deborah Ann Woll) next to the character.
Meanwhile, I'm not familiar with ENDYMIONtv, but he seems like a piece of work, but when you search for "God of War: Laufey" on YouTube, this video is the first result after the official trailer. In it, he raises something I see quite often among a certain class of insecure, weak men:
Unfortunately, the things people don't want to see more of, like female protagonists being pretty much everywhere, also runs a risk. What started off as a novel idea, it has now become annoying.
To be clear, he's saying the idea of female protagonists in video games is a "nove idea", which…okay…
But hey, let's look at the data! All these emotional children care about are "facts", right? Let's look at the data and see if female protagonists are "everywhere".
I used the Video Game Sales Wiki to find the top selling video games from 2020 through 2025, and then found the top 10 selling games each year without counting primarily multiplayer and sports games to get single player games, which this douchebag (sorry, I should hold my name calling until I've proved he's a sexist douchebag) is focused on.
In 2020, the top 10 single-played games were:
In 2021:
In 2022:
In 2023:
In 2024:
In 2025:
All in, this is the prevalence across the last 6 years:
In short, if you were an insecure dork like this guy, 70% of the big games released can be played as a male character, and 22% of the time he's forced to play as a woman. There is a saying, "When someone is accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression," and i think it appeals to this sort of person as well. Before Laufey was announced, he was already "suffering" through 1/5 games featuring a female-only protagonist, and he took that as "female protagonists being pretty much everywhere".
Here's my actual take: there are insecure, weak men out there who will find a reason to hate all women in leading roles. Maybe they don't look fuckable enough. Maybe they aren't the right race. Maybe there's something else they come up with, but there will always be something that offends them.
2026-06-07 22:00:00
Loupe is a simple new app for iOS that shows how many things native apps can see about you and your device, lots of which is available without requesting elevated permissions. It's a fun app, but what I love about it is how it shows the range of things that native apps have access to that web apps don't.
For what it's worth, the vast majority of apps could not care less about this data and don't use it (hey, that's me!), but there's this myth that Apple makes apps you install on your iPhone super private in a way the web isn't, but that's simply a gross oversimplification. There are different things that apps can see than websites, but it's still quite a bit of stuff. If you're curious to see what, install Loupe, and it will immediately tell you when you set up your phone, what apps you have installed, and even how many times you've used the clipboard…all before asking for a single permission.
2026-06-06 01:00:57
I love Best-o-Masto, my iPhone app for browsing the most popular posts in your feed, but I'm not always on my phone. That's why today I'm happy to announce Best-o-Masto is available on the web and you can use it from any device. This also makes it available to Android users, which the iOS app obviously wasn't.
For those who don't know, the concept of Best-o-Masto is that Mastodon does not have any algorithmic feeds to surface the most notable posts in your timeline. That's fine and is likely one of the sources of the more calm vibe on the platform, but it also does mean that if you want to find all the notable posts when you sign on once or twice a day, you have potentially hundreds of posts to sift through and if you don't, you're liable to miss notable things that you would have wanted to see.
Best-o-Masto is not an algorithm for your Mastodon feed, but it does do a very simple query of the last few hundred posts in your feed, source them by engagement, and just list them from 1 to 30. You can like and boost posts directly from the interface, but I have not implemented any posting functionality. So if you want to reply, you can click the reply button to open the post in your instance in a new tab.
Another thing of note is just like the mobile app, the service will only update once every hour. This is not meant to be a place where you watch new posts coming in or that you can obsessively refresh to see new stuff. It actively does not want you to spend all day on it; the whole point is to get you in and out quickly.
Best-o-Masto is 100% free, both in terms of ads and cost. I hope you enjoy it.
2026-06-05 00:44:08
For the last few months, I've been running Quick Tier List, which is a very simple but I thought nice to use tier list website. We've used it quite a few times on Cozy Zone, and I've made some improvements to it that make it easily the go-to choice for us. And based on my analytics, a decent number of other people are using it as well.
One of the limits of the site was that everything was stored locally, though. There was zero cloud component at all, and the website was effectively just a static HTML file. This was great for me because it was simple and required zero cloud infrastructure or costs beyond serving up a bunch of CSS and HTML. All the images were stored on your local device. Simple.
However, the stud did come with downsides. For example, your lists would not sync across browsers or devices. Also, you were only able to work on one tier list at a time. There was no way to save them for later or work on several that you might be planning to do in the future. You just had the one.
I was really happy with the experience I was able to build on the old site, so that is effectively unchanged in this new version. As you can see from the above screenshot, the experience looks basically the same.
Avid users of the current app will notice a few changes near the top though. The list has a name, and there are two navigation buttons at the top left that indicate the existence of a list of tier lists as well as the ability to create a new one.
Let's click to see my lists.
As you can see, I'm signed into the site and I have two tier lists saved that I can go back to whenever I want. I can create new lists, and in the current rollout, every user is allowed to create up to 20 lists and use up to 50 megabytes of images stored to the cloud.
You'll also notice the beta tag, which I'm labeling this as right now because I'm working out kinks. I would also like to implement a paid model that allows for expanded use for those who need it. For the time being, I've tried to set free limits that are within reason but are unlikely to be hit by most people.
I should also state clearly that you do not require an account to use the website. If you liked the old model and wanted to do everything locally in the browser without any sync or giving me any information, go for it. This is what you'll see if you just don't log in.
Yep, basically exactly what the old site was. The only difference of note is up at the top right. Once you start adding images, you can save that tier list, and that will of course require you to create an account and sign in.
Oh, and if you were in the middle of a tier list on the old site, I tried to make it so that all that info will carry over to this new version. Just click "start ranking" on the home page and you should be taken to right where you left off.
I still don't want to store any passwords, so this service uses a MagicLink system to sign you in. Don't worry, you should stay logged in for a very long time, so don't worry about getting these emails too often.
And because I think welcome emails should reflect the tone of the service, therefore, I've made a fun little email template as well.
I hope you enjoy the new version of the app! If you're someone who liked the app, but has always wanted to work on more than one list at a time, today is the day you've been waiting for.
One more thing, the old version of the site was open source, and it remains so, it just won't be getting any updates from me going forward.