James Brooks

There's a fun demo of me talking to Grok in my Tesla about my emails. Which, admittedly, is a slightly ridiculous way to introduce an email tool. But the reason I built CloudPost was much less flashy: I wanted ChatGPT to help me make sense of my inbox. I've had my email address for a long time. Over the years, it's accumulated a barrage of spam, newsletters I no longer read, and mailing lists I barely remember joining. In my experience, iCloud's spam filtering is pretty poor, and sorting…

I've been quietly working on something for the last few months, and today I'm finally shipping it: Berroku, a berry-themed logic puzzle for iPhone and iPad. Think Sudoku, but with a sprinkle of Minesweeper. What is Berroku? Sudoku gives you the grid. Minesweeper gives you the clues. Berroku takes both, swaps the numbers for berries, and turns the result into the kind of puzzle I find myself reaching for on the train or in the queue at a coffee shop. The rules are simple: Place exactly 3 berries…

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