12MAY2024
Happy Mother's Day to all the Mom's out there! I'm going to keep this issue brief so I can go back to celebrating the incredible mother in our household, my amazing wife.
Let's get to the good stuff--
- 🍲 FoodNoms - I've tried a bunch of different apps for keeping track of my food and nutrient intake, but most of them are either too bloated with monetization schemes or oriented strictly around weight loss. FoodNoms has a clean, minimalist design, and makes it crazy easy to track everything from calories to protein, fiber and caffeine regardless of whether you want to cut some pounds, pack on some extra muscle, or just want to get a sense of what you're eating each day. They recently added some cool, AI-powered features that let you get a rough readout on the macronutrients of a meal simply by taking a photo of it and/or describing it.
- 🔗 Plinky - Plinky is a great, design-forward app that makes it dead simple to keep track of links. Why use Plinky instead of the Bookmarks folder on your browser? Well, for one, it can go with you everywhere, you don't have to worry about copying over bookmarks from your work browser or your personal browser, you can add to it from any app, and it makes it dead simple to search for and organize your links. I've used similar offerings from Delicous, Pinterest, and Raindrop.io in the past, but Plinky definitely has the most fun and simple design.
- 🛑 Stop the Madness Pro - At the other end of the design spectrum, but still also great, is Stop the Madness, a browser plug-in that puts you back in control of your web experience. Some of my favorite things it does: Skips YouTube ads, blocks auto-playing videos on websites, re-enables Copy/Paste on websites that have disabled it for some reason, bypasses URL-based tracking, and more. It's very powerful and totally great despite the 90's Microsoft-aesthetic of its design.
- 👾 GBA Jam 2024 - After taking a 2 year break, GBA Jam is back. This is a cool event where programmers and hackers huddle up and compete to make the best, really fun game or experience for the old GameBoy Advance platform. I'm routinely impressed by what folks can come up with during these jams, but I'm especially looking forward to it this year now that Delta for iOS is out, which should make it much easier for all of us to actually try out these games as they're being developed.
- 🎒 Choosing a travel pack is hard - Christian Selig wrote an epic post detailing his struggles with finding the perfect travel backpack. As someone who tried out several bags last year trying to find the same thing, I really enjoyed reading the details of his much more thorough search. Fun reading for any fellow bag or gear nerds.
That's it for this week, be well everyone!