Assaf (@assaf.bsky.social)

Assaf

@assaf.bsky.social

👋 No rhythm or reason, just had too much coffee Blogging about webdev, UX, AI, startups, and stuff https://labnotes.org 📍 Los Angeles CA

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Assaf

@assaf.bsky.social

Weekend Reading — Timeshare for cats labnotes.org/weekend-read...

labnotes.orgWeekend Reading — Timesharing for catsTech Stuff Textus When you need a solid, open-source Markdown editor that run on macOS, Linux and Windows. I quite enjoy using it, and it does come with an AI writing assistant (grammar check, revis...

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Carlo Zottmann

@zottmann.dev

Discovered GenOffice (genoffice.ai), looks neat. You had me at "run locally": > Opening, editing, saving, and PDF-to-Office conversion run locally. Online AI sends requests when you use it. BYOK AI, nice! Hooked it up to my OpenAI sub, works as advertised /via @assaf.bsky.social

genoffice.aiGenOffice — Free, Open-Source AI Office SuiteEdit Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF files with built-in AI. Free, open-source desktop office apps for macOS, Windows and Linux. Download GenOffice.

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Weekend Reading — I’m afraid you don’t have enough tokens to do that, Dave labnotes.org/weekend-read...

labnotes.orgWeekend Reading — I’m afraid you don’t have enough tokens to do that, DaveProtocolPolice I had the weirdest dream last night. I installed an app on my phone so I can look up the prices for couches. That makes sense, it's time to get a new couch in our living room. It ins...

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Weekend Reading — Photobombing labnotes.org/weekend-read...

labnotes.orgWeekend Reading — PhotobombingIngrid Hoeben "He came, he saw, he conquered" This week I was having too much fun shepherding AI to produce another app from scratch. I'll talk about that app at a later time, but for now here's a ...

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Carlo Zottmann

@zottmann.dev

Replying to @andri.dk

Hehe. :) If you haven't yet, check out @assaf.bsky.social's Weekend Reading, it's a good inspiration, methinks. labnotes.org

labnotes.orgLabnotes (by Assaf Arkin)🔥 All about software design, development, and culture. A mix of insightful and funny. Goes great with coffee. ☕

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Weekend Reading — Can somebody else do it for me? labnotes.org/weekend-read...

labnotes.orgWeekend Reading — Can somebody else do it for me?Kristin Scearce Tech Stuff tinyjs Backend with full system access, a native webview window, and that’s it. No Electron. No bundled Chromium. I like the simplicity of it, but I'm sticking with Ta...

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Weekend Reading — Invisible as someone else's problem labnotes.org/weekend-read...

labnotes.orgWeekend Reading — Invisible as someone else's problemCat (D.Burch) Connect to Expense There's a debate going on whether MCP is better than API/CLI access, since modern LLMs have access to the CLI and can do REST over HTTP easily. I think it's a point...

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19 Sept

Weekend Reading — Skeletons in the closet labnotes.org/weekend-read...

labnotes.orgWeekend Reading — Skeletons in the closetNeatnik "Everything can be accessible." 🎉🎉🎉 Fastmail just approved Expense’s OAuth client. I believe we's now the first expense tracking app that can collect receipts from Fastmail (and JMAP in g...

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12 Sept

Weekend Reading — It’s a good day to have a great day labnotes.org/weekend-read...

labnotes.orgWeekend Reading — It’s a good day to have a great daySteven Hoefer Fold I love this. ❤️ It's yet another one-person app coded with AI that solves the eternal todo list problem. Sounds utterly redundant, but when you're not building for a huge target ...

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Sifa ID

@sifa.id

9 Sept

Assaf is today's Sifa profile of the day 🔍 @assaf.bsky.social

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Assaf

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5 Sept

Weekend Reading — At the POST office trying to GET my mail labnotes.org/weekend-read...

labnotes.orgWeekend Reading — At the POST office trying to GET my mailA nosy polar bear and a lucky squirrel: Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026 shortlist Some wildlife photos for your viewing pleasure. The world is changing. This weekend we got a post about the ...

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29 Aug

Weekend Reading — FRAP aka as "the zoomies" labnotes.org/weekend-read...

labnotes.orgWeekend Reading — FRAP aka as "the zoomies"Clarissa "What if we kissed on the Cray supercomputer loveseat?" Vibe coding and quality "When you hear that some app was “vibe coded”, how much quality do you expect?" I was just wondering about...

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22 Aug

Weekend Reading — Kanban it labnotes.org/weekend-read...

labnotes.orgWeekend Reading — Kanban itnivs I second that recommendation: An Update on Leaving Gmail for Fastmail. I've been using FastMail for over a year now and I like the progress they're making adding useful new features to the app...

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15 Aug

Weekend Reading — The Stalk Market labnotes.org/weekend-read...

labnotes.orgWeekend Reading — The Stalk MarketKarel Titeca "Richard Scarry already summarized everything there is to know about cyber security, about 50 years ago." Yes, I just asked DeepSeek V4 to run a security audit of my code, because why ...

Assaf

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8 Aug

Weekend Reading — The least you can do labnotes.org/weekend-read...

labnotes.orgWeekend Reading — The least you can doa brief history of consumption This week I completed developing the expense report app. This is the software that I am working on for getting all my tax stuff together – receipts, mileage and what ...

Assaf

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1 Aug

Weekend Reading — The elderly health category labnotes.org/weekend-read...

labnotes.orgWeekend Reading — The elderly health categoryPixelcats "Opened the mail .. Derpy arrived early! SQUEE!" Did I just vibe-code an app because I didn’t like the new UI? Why yes I did. I’ve been using Expensify for many years to keep track of my e...

Assaf

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25 July

Weekend Reading — Industrial complex labnotes.org/weekend-read...

labnotes.orgWeekend Reading — Industrial complexLaura Tech Stuff MacPaw releases CleanMyMac CLI for cleaning developer and AI environments on macOS I love that it's a CLI, super easy to use, and cleans up your developer caches, build artifact...

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Kelsey Hightower

@kelseyhightower.com

4 July

The less busy work you have the less appealing these Al tools are.

Assaf

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19 July

Weekend Reading — I am so far behind on my procrastination labnotes.org/weekend-read...

labnotes.orgWeekend Reading — I am so far behind on my procrastinationCat "Jeez, would you look at the time?" Tech Stuff InkLeaf Foldable screen, but not a phone — an e-Ink tablet on which you can read and write. Stylus included. In defense of not understandi...

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11 July

Weekend Reading — I’m bringing .exe back labnotes.org/weekend-read...

labnotes.orgWeekend Reading — I’m bringing .exe backDavid Phd "The British are adding panels to the Bayeux Tapestry while its in London" Tech Stuff Chatto is now Open Source! Chatto aims to be the group chat application that you actually enj...

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4 July

Weekend Reading — Hydrate like a data center labnotes.org/weekend-read...

labnotes.orgWeekend Reading — Hydrate like a data centerShawn "Fruan" Poulsen "Thirst trap" Tech Stuff SmoothCSV CSV editor without the Excel overhead. Features include smooth cell editing, SQL queries, cell and row swapping, command palette, and mor...

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27 June

Weekend Reading — It's gettin' hot in here … labnotes.org/weekend-read...

labnotes.orgWeekend Reading — It's gettin' hot in here …Tjeerd Royaards "Hot. Cartoon from last year." Tech Stuff DevCleaner Free space on your Mac that's currently used by the caches of Xcode, npm, Cursor, Claude, et al. Runs local, minimum memory f...

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21 June

Weekend Reading — A sourdough finisher labnotes.org/weekend-read...

labnotes.orgWeekend Reading — A sourdough finisherCrankGPT The human-powered, local-first, private AI. Tech Stuff Lettera Based on Bear's remarkable Markdown editor, a standalone app for editing Markdown files from your file system. I like Bear...

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13 June

Weekend Reading — Future-proofed like there’s no tomorrow! labnotes.org/weekend-read...

labnotes.orgWeekend Reading — Future-proofed like there’s no tomorrow!Neil "Just because you can...." Tech Stuff OfficeCLI A CLI to help AI create/read/edit Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents. Open source and doesn't require a Microsoft Office license. I just i...

Assaf

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7 June

Weekend Reading — Little Bobby ignore all previous instructions labnotes.org/weekend-read...

labnotes.orgWeekend Reading — Little Bobby ignore all previous instructionsFrechrotz_Pix 'Lego- bzw. Klemmbausteine' Tech Stuff pitchfork A devilishly good daemons manager: start/stop daemon, automatic restarts, health checks, file watching, cron scheduling, and many m...

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Dare Obasanjo

@carnage4life.bsky.social

2 June

Zohran Mamdani signed an Executive Order temporarily repealing kids' bedtimes in the City of New York so that kids of all ages can watch the Knicks in the NBA Finals. Watching his mayoral run is one of the few bright spots in our political landscape.

Assaf

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2 June

I Got $4.84 From a Class Action Settlement and They Really, Really Didn't Want Me to Have It labnotes.org/i-got-4-84-f...

labnotes.orgI Got $4.84 From a Class Action Settlement and They Really, Really Didn't Want Me to Have ItSo here's the thing. When a company loses a class action lawsuit and has to pay millions to regular people, they don't just write you a check. They go out of their way to make sure you never actually ...

Assaf

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30 May

Weekend Reading — How to lose 2 hours labnotes.org/weekend-read...

labnotes.orgWeekend Reading — How to lose 2 hoursgeekysteven Tech Stuff Zed I really like using Cursor but it's a huge IDE (basically VS Code) which takes forever to load and eats up too much memory and sometimes I have to restart it just to f...

Assaf

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23 May

Weekend Reading — I do not think, therefore I do not am labnotes.org/weekend-read...

labnotes.orgWeekend Reading — I do not think, therefore I do not amNatasha "Fragile Handle With Care" by Roman Pankoy (2020) Oil on canvas Tech Stuff Animata A collection of React + Tailwind animations and effects to enhance your UI. A pretty substantive collec...

Assaf

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16 May

Weekend Reading — Low-maintenance passive traffic calming labnotes.org/weekend-read...

labnotes.orgWeekend Reading — Low-maintenance passive traffic calmingSophie Schmieg "Work moved to a new building. I didn't expect to take SAN damage from facilities." Tech Stuff Magic Notebook A free app, simple and elegant UI, no cloud sync, just open a folder ...

Assaf

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14 May

coolify-deploy — Vercel-style deploys on your own hardware labnotes.org/coolify-depl...

labnotes.orgcoolify-deploy — Vercel-style deploys on your own hardwareIntroducing coolify-deploy — git push to your own server with the simplicity of a platform. I used to host everything on Vercel and honestly it was great. Connect a repo, push, your app is live — si...

Assaf

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10 May

Weekend Reading — Locally hosted torment nexus labnotes.org/weekend-read...

labnotes.orgWeekend Reading — Locally hosted torment nexusJohn "Posted today by Lego on their official Instagram account. Well done, Lego, well done. 😁" Tech Stuff portless HTTPS for npm dev using .localhost URLs instead of port numbers: Portless ...

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani

@mayor.nyc.gov

7 May

I joined NY’s Cutest on the Bergen Bike Bus that they ride to school every Wednesday, rain or shine. We’re adding bike boulevards and more pedestrian space on Bergen and Dean Street, from Court Street to East New York Ave. It was a wonderful kind of day.