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Anybox
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I just love organizing my digital life. This also includes collecting various links, like new apps, interesting articles or fun tools. Recently I've just been using AnyType with a Markdown doc but Anybox is a gamechanger!
A native macOS & iOS app with iCloud sync. Also ships with a browser extension for saving links.
Price: $1.99 (monthly), $14.99 (yearly), $39.99 (lifetime)
Zen Browser
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The Browser Company recently rug-pulled from their pretty popular Arc Browser - so is it smart to switch to the Firefox-eqlivalent, Zen Browser? Maybe not. But it's awesome!
The sidebar offers loads of customization possibilities and workspaces allow for neat organization. There are also built-in tools for split views. They have also been really quick with bumping their Firefox versions.
Price: Free & Open Source
NetNewsWire
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Yep, we're going RSS. I recently switched from Reeder to NetNewsWire. I did not really like the version 5 of Reeder, many config options were dropped and the link saving functionality was too present for me because I'm using Anybox for that.
NetNewsWire is nearly perfect! The only thing missing for me is a preview of the OG Image, but I can live without.
Price: Free & Open Source
frame0
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frame0 is a pretty new (currently in beta) desktop app for sketching, diagrams and wireframes. Think of it a the small child of Excalidraw and Figma.
The screenshot above is my own Vim cheat sheet, btw.
Price: free
Ghostty
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I didn't know that I could fall in love with a Terminal emulator but here we are. If you've slept over Ghostty, first of all - how? Secondly: It's fire!
Recently I've made a small blog post on setting up Ghostty + Zellij + Fish Shell.
Price: Free & Open Source
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Fix Laravel Job Queue not processing with MaxAttemptsExceededException
Fix issues with the Laravel Job Queue not processing jobs due to max attempts exceeding.
Ghostty + Zellij + Fish Shell
Ghostty just dropped, let's intergrate it with my previous Terminal stack of Zellij and Fish!