House of Jacob

Welcome to the eleventh edition of my Every Day Stack Updates.

I’m not babysitting my watch history anymore and I’m my own food delivery service again.

Off we go.

Removed from the stack

• Youtube Premium: This was a very painful one for me. Youtube has always been my favourite way to spend free time with “edutainment” content. Sadly they need to fire everyone in their recommendation/algo department and revert all the work done for the past 2 years. It used to be brilliant at recommending topics or content adjacent to things I’m already interested in. Making Youtube a great source of discovering new interests I didn’t know I wanted to explore further.

  Now, it just recommends more of the same: watch one video on a new iPhone and bam, the entire site is now iPhone videos. Chill out algo, I know there are many iPhone videos on here, I don’t care about it that deeply and never have (as you can easily tell from my full watch history). Without the engine serving me interesting content by itself, it’s too much hassle to constantly manage my watch history or have the algo going off the rails entirely.

• Chefly: The newest meal service I tried for a few months and sadly it didn’t make the cut. So for now I’m giving up on meal delivery services again as I just can’t seem to find one that doesn’t fall short.

Added to the stack

• Yubikey: Physical 2FA all the things!

• PS Portal: Now that I have a PS5 the Portal is awesome for being able to play without hogging the TV. I thought the delay of streaming over wifi from the PS5 to the Portal may be bad but once I hard-wired the PS5 to the router it has been flawless since.

• iPhone 16 Pro: The battery on my 12 Pro was getting really tired, and I like that the new 16 Pro comes with a bitter wide-angle camera as I use that one a lot when travelling so I thought I might as well upgrade. So far I don’t really care for the new camera button, but I do like the action button mapped to my most frequently used Shortcut.

• Finikey: Need to use different browsers for different accounts/clients? This is what you need. You create some rules and then when you click on a link it opens the link in the right browser. 10/10.

• A new (used) car: Road trips are back on the menu!

Proving grounds

• GPD Pocket: It’s a tiiiiny laptop 🤏 I’m using it to run a dashboard on my desk connected to a macropad for an experiment. Maybe more on this in a later post.

• Cline: Autonomous AI in your Visual Studio Code, what’s not to like? With Claude from Antropic it is pretty magical and has written more code for me than I’ve written myself in the past year.

That’s all for now, see you in three months, maybe.

Thanks for stopping by.