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An indie business run by @mergesort.me, making it incredibly easy to save links for later. Also a bit of red panda stanning. Check out plinky.app!

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Plinky – Easily Save Links | Enjoy Them Later

Do you save links but never revisit them? Plinky gives you one-tap saving from any app or browser, with folders + tags + search, reminders so you actually revisit what matters, and full customisation ...

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Hey, you. Did you know Plinky is on sale? Right now, for the next week. Just open Plinky and instantly save 50% on one year of Plinky Pro. I’ve recently dropped prices in over 100 countries, so at this point I’m practically paying you to use Plinky! 👉🏻 Tap here on iOS/macOS to redeem: plinky.app/pro

"Pokemon" is short for "pocket monsters". "Digimon" is short for "digital monsters". Therefore, "salmon" is short for "saltwater monsters". (You might object: salmon spend a big part of their life in freshwater. But pokemon spend a big part of their life outside pockets too!)

Inventing the air conditioner Make it a 100 fucking pounds. No, no center mass to it at all somehow. Throw some fuckin…accordion arms on it that flap out and catch on everything when you’re carrying it up from the basement. And let me get 50 razor blades on the back of it too.

every mushroom foraging guidebook: This is Woodland Pot Roast, a tasty little mushroom that adds a delightful flavour to soups and stews. Note that it is often mistaken for Satan’s Fistula, a mushroom that erases the last 9 generations of your family from God’s ledgers.

1/4 After months of development, meet Plinky for Mac. It's not enough to have all your links in your pocket, you need them everywhere you are. Starting today, that includes your Mac. ➡️ plinky.app/mac ⬅️

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I highly recommend everyone read this tremendous essay from @joanwestenberg.com on the case for optimism. It’s up to us to build the world we want, even when we see many reasons it might not happen — because sometimes it does.

In 1903, Simon Newcomb - a professor of mathematics at Johns Hopkins and probably the most credentialed scientist in the country
- wrote a widely-read essay arguing that powered heavier-than-air flight was a practical impossibility. And on December 17 of that same year, Wilbur and Orville Wright flew four times at Kitty Hawk. The longest flight lasted 59 seconds and covered 852 feet.
Newcomb never revised his position.
Pessimism is more accurate in the short term
- almost always, I'll give it that. Things do go wrong in roughly the ways people predict they will. But optimism is more productive over decades. Optimism is the thing that generates attempts, and without attempts nothingBlind cheerfulness ignores evidence, crashes planes, builds the Humane Al Pin and bankrupts companies. Nobody wants that.
But the choice to look at bad data and act anyway, because sitting still is the one move that guarantees the bad outcome, is a noble one.
The most dangerous idea I keep running into is that there is nothing to be done. It's the one idea that, if enough people hold it, comes true
- and I refuse to treat that as a serious intellectual position. I refuse to let Quiet Quitting become the dominant intellectual model of our age.
I would rather be wrong about what we're capable of than right about why we shouldn't bother trying…..

Well that was a much faster review time than expected. Still plenty to do to prepare for launch though, so April 22nd is still the day for Plinky 6!

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"I'm just going to let people be wrong on the internet" remains the single most difficult New Year's Resolution I have ever made, hands down. Nothing else comes close.

It's taken a lot of work but I'm excited to announce that Plinky is coming to the Mac on April 22nd. In a world of half-hearted web apps and vibecoded slop, I doubled down on making Plinky a Mac app that feels right at home on the Mac. And I can't wait for you to try it out.

Plinky comes to Mac

All your links in your pocket, and at your desk

Launching April 22nd

It's taken a lot of work but I'm excited to announce that Plinky is coming to the Mac on April 22nd. In a world of half-hearted web apps and vibecoded slop, I doubled down on making Plinky a Mac app that feels right at home on the Mac. And I can't wait for you to try it out.

Plinky comes to Mac

All your links in your pocket, and at your desk

Launching April 22nd

I’ll be emerging from my goblin cave where I’ve been coding very 🔜 to share some 🆕 feature announcements. Please 🐻 with me in the meantime though.

one thing that's kinda funny is the way Nixon was taught at least to me i thought of him as a strictly historical figure but he died in 1994. kinda funny to imagine him watching dave coulier slime wil wheaton on the nickelodeon kids choice awards.