Welcome to Installer No. 126, the newsletter that's basically a digital rummage sale of the Verge-iest stuff on earth. This week, we're celebrating Ruthless Self-Promotion Week by talking about... ourselves. Specifically, what we've been building. The author has been deep in the Claude Code mines, hammering out a productivity tool called Daily. It's a custom UI that connects Google Calendar, Todoist, Raindrop bookmarks, and Obsidian into one visually pleasing command center. The cost? Approximately 450,000 hours of copying and pasting error logs into Claude Code. "I didn't create this thing so much as bugfix it into existence," they note, but hey, it works mostly.
Also on the personal menu: reading about the Tesla diner and Dwarkesh Patel, starting a Ted Lasso rewatch for season 4, watching a robot injure Joanna Stern, falling down a rabbit hole of Japanese stationery, wondering if cool shoes could help run a sub-two-hour marathon, following folks from Chris Plante's games media list, and hunting for the perfect Rice Krispies Treats recipe. Priorities.
But the real meat is the community show-and-tell. Readers sent in their creations, and they range from the practical to the delightfully absurd. Highlights include SCOTUSWatch, an app that pushes Supreme Court opinion notifications (because lawyers need to know when the robed ones drop a ruling); a sushi-hunting app that tells you when Itsu outlets are slashing prices 30 minutes before closing (half-price eel roll, anyone?); a short film called "Eating 38 Cheeseburgers" about AI-fueled disconnection; and a working Cyberpunk 2077 radio built from a 3D-printed shell, LED matrix, and Python code. There's also ChangeLock, an Android app that counts your phone unlocks and guilt-trips you into donating a cent per unlock at month's end. Pascal, its creator, notes iOS doesn't offer the same data access, which is probably for the best.
Other gems: a filter that hides generative AI features on websites (Google summaries, Copilot buttons, Reddit Answers); a daily wins journal called "Did It" that only records what you already did ("Some days the win is shipping something. Some days it's getting out of bed. Both count."); and a newsletter called Tuesday Night Movie Night with algorithm-free recommendations. Because nothing says rebellion like a human watching a movie and writing about it.
As always, the newsletter thrives on reader submissions. So if you've built something recently - an app, a game, an album, a crochet project - send it to installer@theverge.com. Or don't. But then you'll miss out on being featured next time, and your project will languish in obscurity, unloved and unlauded. Your call.