Hello friends! you are welcome installer Number 124, your guide to the best and the verge-The best stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome to send me your Coachella fits, and you can also read all the past editions here installer home page.)
This week, I’m reading about restaurant bread And GLP-1s And Lenny Rachitsky And Artemis II FashionWatching new boy band doc ‘Cause I’ll always look at a boy band doc, look at each one too clip I can get enough of Justin Bieber’s Coachella set schitt’s creek-shaped like a hole in my heart big mistakesgetting increasingly excited about The Mandalorian and GroguAnd watering my new lawn so it doesn’t get ruined. Please don’t die, Lawn. You were very expensive.
I’ve got some new AI apps to install on your computer, new action cameras worth planning trips with, a new sci-fi action game to play, and much more.
Oh, and a reminder: Send me something you’ve made! We’ve been self-promoting all week long installer (Possibly next week but probably the week after), and either way I want to hear about things you’re making, building, coding, building, whatever you think the Installerverse might love. I’ve heard from many of you already, and the rule is – keep the good things coming! Let’s dig in.
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- openai codecs. Here’s OpenAI’s latest stab at an all-in-one AI superapp, which includes a web browser, new coding tools, and a setting that allows codecs to use your computer for you. As always, tread lightly, but people have been loving Codex lately.
- gemini for mac. I’m angry at Google for tying its Mac app to a keyboard shortcut and making the app a login item by default, which many people use for other things. But! This is the best way to instantly interact with Gemini and even Google Drive and Photos from your computer. It goes in my lap.
- beef season two. beef This is one of the best shows that no one ever talks about. I’ve been on fire before with the “we’ll do it again but with a brand new cast” – looking at you, true Detective – But it’s also a triumph as a reason to rewatch the first season.
- gradually weather. Y’all, I think someone finally made the gorgeous, simple weather app that Android so desperately needs. It’s very new and very beta, but I like the look of it, and I like that the whole aesthetic changes with the seasons. insta-install.
- Lorne. By all accounts this is as close as anyone has actually seen from the inside Saturday night Live and its semi-legendary creator, Lorne Michaels. Morgan Neville produces mostly great docs and has a ton of access to it; I am very excited to see it.
- “Where are all these GPUs really going?“A very funny answer to a surprisingly complex question: What are companies doing With the incredible amount of chips they’re buying? Numbers are all kinds of sham, and How Money Works does a good job of explaining them.
- DJI Osmo Pocket 4. It’s pretty sad that this gimbal camera isn’t coming to the US in the near future, because more buttons, better slo-mo, and more built-in storage are all great upgrades. I use the Pocket 3 all the time, and will keep an eye out for an upgrade.
- GoPro Mission 1 Pro ILS. It’s still in “coming soon” mode, but it’s the first GoPro tall Time I’m excited about. As with all the other Mission 1 upgrades, adding an interchangeable lens mount will completely change what people do with GoPros. I can’t wait to see this thing in the wild.
- Coachella TV. I’ve never spent much time with YouTube’s Coachella livestreams, but this year’s show has been awesome. It almost seems as if a concert doc is being shot in real time – and there’s more Bieber to come!
- Pragmata. I’m always here for a game that isn’t trying to be live-service, battle-royale, open-world anything, but instead sends you on an adventure. It might suffer from being a little too derivative, but it still seems very much like my kind of game.
i’m a fan of Maria PopovaIt’s been working for as long as I can remember. Maria runs a site called marginal people, I started following him when he was called brain selection; Under both names this site has been a fountain of content to read, with amazing and smart ideas about just about everything. I spend a lot of time reading and on the Internet, and I can’t think of anyone who shows me so much stuff that I would never have found otherwise.
Maria came out with a book earlier this year, called traversalIt’s all about how people see, perceive, and think about the world around them. there is one Very There’s a lot going on in this book, and I suspect you’ll like it. I asked Maria to share her homescreen with us, to find out if she knows more about all things technology.
Here’s Maria’s homescreen, along with some information about the apps she uses and why:
phone: iPhone 16 – Still too big for me, but when my previous 13 mini gave up the ghost of the Moor I had to reluctantly give it up.
Wallpaper: Spring moon rising behind maple leaves in the forest where I live most of the year.
Apps: Evernote, Phone, Safari. (free space That’s the app that turns icons into text.)
The usual life-management tools (calendar, connections, climate) plus Evernote, which I’ve been using since 2003 and which is still an Alexandria of the carefully organized information that runs my life.
I also asked Maria to share some of the things she’s currently involved in. Here’s what he sent back:
- Robert McFarlane and Jackie Morris The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss.
- Record of Zone as Police Woman Lemon, Lime and Orchid.
- JD Abumrad’s miniseries Fela Kuti: Don’t be afraid man..
- A beautiful reminder of who we can be in the story of how humanity saved ginkgo.
what’s here installer Community is in this week. I also want to know what you are doing right now! email installer@theverge.com Or message me on Signal – @davidpierce.11 – with your recommendations for anything and everything, and we’ll feature some of our favorites here each week. For more great recommendations, check out these answers This post on threads And This post on BlueSky.
“Becca Farces Recommends ohsnap mcon Recently on her channel and I picked one up. It’s super sleek and works great with the Delta emulator so far. i got it gold eye After a little tuning it’s running fine.” – Ian
“Really enjoying plain text game To follow the start of baseball season. Loads fast, has everything I need without the ESPN cruft” – Rich
“I’m almost finished reading service model And I’m Obsessed by Adrian Tchaikovsky: equal amounts of humor and existential dread. It’s very silly, very thoughtful and frankly, very stupid the verge– I embrace technology.” – Olof
“YouTube has been my recent choice for surprisingly good short films that you’ve probably never heard of or might get lost in the Hollywood machine. For example, this is called abortion Was amazing and there are more people like that out there.” — Steve
“Definitely check out John Boies’ hilarious, quirky and informative film Series about the birth of the Internet mashed with home improvement TV show reference.” -Logan
“I bought a MacBook Air a few weeks ago after looking at the Neo and getting fed up with Windows, and I bought some helpful apps to fix my minor gripes with the notch and
Spotlight. There are a lot of good Notch apps but I bought Ghirauchi – The notch shows me when I raise and lower the volume, which somehow makes the giant black bar in the middle of my screen seem a little less useless. I have also been experimenting tinystartwhich is really
Fast and good! These two helpful apps make using the Mac as my main computer feel much better than it did last time.” -Iris
“My passion for exploring TTRPGs and learning about game design has led me to delve deeper into the YouTube channel knights of the last call. Long live-streams and VODs and a very active community have opened my eyes to even more things that are possible in TTRPGs. -Simeon
“Season 3.” shrink It ended on such an impressive note on Apple TV. The cast just keeps bringing it and the writing realistically tackles all kinds of human problems we all deal with or know about. A+”- Aaron
“I got lots of great book recommendations, thanks big idea Feature on John Scalzi’s blog, whatever!” – Steve
You probably already know this, but I spend too much time snacking. eat them. Doing research on them. Thinking about them. Craving more of them. And I know I’m not alone! So I have big news: my wife just came home Variety Pack of Candy from YumEarthAnd it’s all excellent. It’s basically Skittles, Starbursts, and Sour Patch Kids, but with more natural ingredients and much less sugar. (But there’s still a lot of sugar, because it’s Candy. Sugar-free candy is a lie.)
I’m constantly looking for ways to make my bad habits a little better, without screwing up my life in the process. This is perfect. The Skittles counterpart is called “Giggles”, which is horrible, but they’re delicious. So I will allow it. I’m going to get something right now.
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