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Small apps that do one thing honestly.

[Xeve @getxeve]

Road trips are better together. Now they stay together. 🧡
DriveStream: your whole group on one live map, hands-free radio, CarPlay support.
Free on iPhone 👇
https://t.co/6trESueN2f

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Weekend hack: HackerTube. I was annoyed with YouTube's recommendations so I had Claude filter down 43M comments over 20 years of HN to 6,454 videos that keep being recommended. *Significantly* better viewing experience, ~2 hours with Opus 5.5:
https://t.co/JIhXN7OSh1

- Excellent recs without any logins (state is kept in local browser session)
- Thumbnail is a representative frame from middle of the video instead of the super duper A/B test hyper-optimized user uploads
- Underlying data from the comment analysis as one zip file, point your Claude at it and ask for your own version
- HackerTube Longs ✊

A bit more on the process:
I use Claude Code (desktop app for Mac), Opus 5.5 on Medium effort as my default. I only talk to Claude and have it do everything, the only "manual work" I helped with in tandem was in the browser (reminiscent of MenuGen): 1) I had to create some kind of API key from Google Cloud UI to query YouTube for video metadata, 2) I booted up a VPS box for serving and 3) I bought the domain name. Once the box was up I gave Claude the IP and told it update, secure, harden, deploy and optimize the code, and it did the whole thing.

Many awesome projects that would have normally taken weeks/months even can now be few-shotted for breakfast. What else are we not thinking of.

[Xeve @getxeve]

Can you use an iPad as a baby monitor?

Yes — Cribbit works on iPhone and iPad, in any combination. An iPad in the nursery and an iPhone in your pocket is a practical setup many parents already have.

https://t.co/kavjyiU3hm

[Xeve @getxeve]

No-code time tracking: how automatic trackers work

No-code time trackers log your day without timers. Here is what they capture automatically and what to look for.

https://t.co/XaVYKlK6lG

[Xeve @getxeve]

How do two iPhones connect without a router?

Wi-Fi Aware is the same radio AirDrop uses — unlocking it in a third-party app meant getting an Apple entitlement. How Cribbit's direct pairing was built.

https://t.co/YroEhIZde9

[Xeve @getxeve]

Walkie-talkie app for road trips: DriveStream press-to-talk

DriveStream includes press-to-talk for live group voice in a convoy. Live audio only, nothing recorded — here is what it does on a group drive.

https://t.co/OMKs6vU1Yy

[Xeve @getxeve]

Rogr open channels: talk to anyone in range, no account

Rogr has sixteen public voice channels for anyone in range. Tune in, pick a callsign, and talk — no Wi-Fi, no internet, no account, no pairing needed.

https://t.co/9jBZdZSkDI

[Xeve @getxeve]

UniFi 'Storage Not Initialized': using a worn-out SSD

Why Reformat does nothing on a UDM Pro with an at-risk drive, how UniFi decides a drive is unusable, and the workaround we used, with its risks.

https://t.co/bHBZ3Iym41

[Xeve @getxeve]

When a baby monitor feed freezes: what Cribbit shows you

A frozen nursery picture looks exactly like a sleeping baby. Cribbit monitors every frame's timestamp and tells you Live, Stalled or Lost instead.

https://t.co/WZ04izB3ol

[Xeve @getxeve]

How a stuck upload silently lost 30 hours of Orma tracking

The Mac tracker was running, the menu bar showed nothing wrong, and the dashboard was empty. One hung network request had wedged the sync queue.

https://t.co/re6QARibqK

[Xeve @getxeve]

What's filling your Mac's disk space as a developer

Xcode DerivedData, iOS device support files, node_modules, package caches and Docker VMs account for most developer disk bloat. TidyBug finds all of them safely.

https://t.co/VzyrYHe3Lh

[Xeve @getxeve]

DriveStream's driving ranks: from Rookie to Legend at 40,075 km

DriveStream tracks your total distance across every drive, awarding ranks from Rookie to Legend — set at 40,075 km, the circumference of the Earth.

https://t.co/GVcITw5uoY

[Xeve @getxeve]

How Rogr SOS works: crew alert and GPS location without internet

Hold the SOS button on Rogr and every phone in your crew sounds an alarm and sees your location — no internet, no server, peer-to-peer only.

https://t.co/EuH4fpkTUu

[Xeve @getxeve]

Rogr is nearly on the App Store: an offline walkie-talkie for festivals, treks, ski slopes and cruises.
Phone to phone over Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, free with an optional Pro.

[Xeve @getxeve]

After the drive: route, distance, moving time and top speed, saved per trip, solo or convoy.
The stats are yours — the walkie-talkie audio was never recorded to begin with.

[Xeve @getxeve]

How to set up an iPhone baby monitor with Cribbit

Setting up Cribbit takes about a minute: a six-character code, no account, and a spare iPhone as the nursery camera. Here's what to prepare before the first night.

https://t.co/oqIdoTEStw

[Xeve @getxeve]

Cribbit's beta has 100 places, and everyone in it keeps the full app for life.
Two iPhones you already own, no cloud, no account, no subscription.

[Xeve @getxeve]

No ads. No trackers. No data sold.
Six apps, one job each: your time, your baby monitor, your walkie-talkie, your convoy, your disk, your notch.

[Xeve @getxeve]

How we built Orma's public API and MCP server

One prompt turned Orma from a private dashboard into an open-source platform with OAuth, eleven scopes, and a remote MCP server AI tools can use.

https://t.co/MRd22qUFIw

[ClaudeDevs @ClaudeDevs]

ICYMI we've cut the price of Sonnet 5.5 cache reads in half.

In the Claude Platform, it's now $0.10 per million tokens (input is $2, output is $10).

This means Sonnet 5.5 now runs ~20% cheaper on most agentic work.

(API only, no change to Claude Code usage limits.)

[Xeve @getxeve]

A cleaner that removes the wrong folder is malware with a nice icon.
TidyBug scans read-only, moves to the Trash by default, and refuses ~/Documents, iCloud, Photos, .git and ~/.ssh outright. The guard is open source.