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👤 Personal {#newsletter}1️⃣ Hello everyone. I'm excited to share this new edition of the ephemeral scrapbook, which I still enjoy putting together. It includes various tidbits about my creative hobbies. My newsletter frequently references AI-related articles. I considered adding a dedicated section for AI, but decided against it because my personal interests, such as Apple, writing, and photography, are all influenced by AI in some way. Additionally, many projects I completed this year relied…

I don't usually get excited about read-later apps. I've tried most of them (Instpaper, Matter, Readwise, Omnivore), kept none for long. But Quick Reads is different, and not because it does more than the others. It does less, and it does it with taste.Quick Reads is a read-it-later service built by one person, Matt Birchler, who wanted the app he'd always wished existed and simply made it as he explains in the service's intrudction video. That origin matters to me. It's the same instinct I…

👤 Personal {#bloggerlife, #news}1️⃣ From a creativity perspective, I feel like I’m in a lethargic state this summer. 😟 Like a creative zombie chasing Apple's latest betas, watching Russia burn and Iran endure Trump's bad humour, and portions of Europe burn to the ground, if you will. 🧟‍♂️ My only plan is to replace my iPhone this fall and get ready to write a review about my experience. That's it. 2️⃣ In the good news department, I no longer waste my time on LinkedIn, but I like wasting my time…

👤 Personal {#traveling, #life}1️⃣ A lot happened since the previous edition of this newsletter. I’ve been on a two-week trip to France where I took the opportunity to finish my latest web application for sharing places that I visited. It's called Trails. It was fun to put together, much less complicated than I thought, and it was a joy to use while on vacation. Here's a screenshot of this web application. I plan to use Trails for my next trip, this fall, in Thailand. I can't wait! 2️⃣ While on…

👤 Personal {#life}1️⃣ After some personal life challenges, I'm mostly back to normal. Nothing too serious. Coupled with a very busy work schedule, my energy was diverted in recent weeks. My next vacation can't come soon enough. 😅🗺️ Discoveries {#ipad, #competition, #github}1️⃣ The iPad is the king of all tablets. But, once in a while, a company comes along and dares to challenge it and try something really different, yet familiar. There's Daylight, a new distraction-free tablet. → I'm very…

Over the years, I’ve tried my share of task managers. OmniFocus, Things 3, Apple Reminders, to name the main ones. Each had its place.OmniFocus was powerful, but ultimately too complex for the way I work. Apple Reminders remained my tool for personal tasks. Things 3, on the other hand, became the task manager I used for my digital creative hobbies. It struck a balance that worked well for me: structured, elegant, and not overly demanding.But there was always a lingering concern in the…

👤 Personal {#life}1️⃣ Here’s another late edition of the newsletter. Again, sorry for the delay, but life sometimes takes over. My personal hobby time is spread across many little things and is sometimes fighting against unexpected events like my wife's recent injury. She's slowly recovering. 🙏🏻🗺️ Discoveries {#youtuber, #hobby}1️⃣ Journalist Joanna Stern launches New Things, an independent tech newsletter and YouTube channel focused on asking "who is this technology for?" rather than just…

The explosion of artificial intelligence is quietly transforming the computer memory industry. Major manufacturers are now allocating an increasing share of their production capacity to the needs of cloud and AI giants, attracted by significantly higher profit margins. This shift particularly affects advanced memory technologies used in AI accelerators, but its impact is gradually spreading across the entire market.For consumers and traditional businesses, the consequences are becoming…

There is a pattern to how Apple makes its most interesting bets. It finds a hard physical constraint, something that looks like an immovable wall, and decides that software is the answer. It happened with the camera. It is happening right now with artificial intelligence.Act I: The Lens ProblemGreat photography has always been, at its core, a physics problem. A camera captures light. The more light it captures, the richer the image, more detail in the shadows, less noise, better colour…

When Steve Jobs handed the reins of Apple Inc. to Tim Cook, the question was never whether Apple would change—it was how. Fifteen years later, the answer is clear: Apple didn’t lose its edge; it refined it into something far more disciplined, predictable, and scalable.Cook’s tenure is best understood through the lens of execution. He transformed Apple into an operational powerhouse, optimizing supply chains, expanding margins, and building one of the most efficient global technology machines…

👤 Personal {#personalupdate, #projects, #newsletter}1️⃣ I've been slow to publish a new edition of this newsletter this year because I was focused on developing web applications with Claude AI and Claude Code. Now that most of my apps are finished, I can refocus on the newsletter. As you probably know, two web apps are key to this newsletter: one for bookmarking interesting content I find online, and another custom-built RSS reader. Both apps work together and truly make a difference. 2️⃣…

Vibe coding might prove to be programming for the rest of us.

The MacBook Neo says ‘Hello’ as Apple celebrates 50 years of existence. What a journey.