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Robb Knight • Posts • Atom Feed · May 18, 2026

Weeknote #2001

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I haven't done a weeknote in a while and this one is packed with links because I've got very behind on all the things including my saved later list. What do you mean you don't have custom artwork for your weeknotes? Weirdo.

Dr Dre's 2001 Album cover but it says Weeknote 2001 and the cannibis leaf is replaced with my logo

First off, I was thinking about Y2K as one does and I remembered that these keyrings were everywhere in 1999. I am somewhat annoyed I missed weeknote 2000 to post this in but here we are.

A yellow monster on a keyring with blue eyes and eating computers
The back of a yellow monster on a keyring with 2000 written on the back

While I don't think all of these truly "replace" the premium ones they claim to, I'm always down for new ways to browse fonts and Font Alternatives is pretty nice.

Oat is a new UI library without any crazy dependencies.

YouSky by Ross Wintle is a fun "one person social network".

Alex always has excellent posts and this one, The bare minimum for syncing Git repos, is no different.

Chris' AI policy is excellent.

a genderless burger experience via Keenan

This guy cracks spray cans and makes little scenes inside them.

Incidental Music Player looks fun.

Disable Apple Creator Studio update popup in iWork

Walkman.land is the shit I'm here for.

I was able to use FontCrafter to make a font from my handwriting, something I did many years ago with a different service. This was initally a bit finicky but it had some updates and worked perfectly after that.

Slide Ventura. Love it.

My buddy Ben made the Legami Friends Pen Reference inspired by the Mildliner site. It's so good.

Fits on a Floppy - A Manifesto for Small Software. "Software should be as small as it can be. Not as a gimmick, but as a discipline.". YES.

Ask an Astronaut takes all the questions ever asked of astronauts aboard the ISS and uses a local AI model to search and find them for you.

ReKindle is a website as an OS for Kindles with a web browser.

Reminder: You Can Stitch Together Lots of Little HTML Pages With Navigations For Interactions. Jim is very smart and this is worth your time.

AirPodsSanity solved an apparently widespread issue where MacOS will set AirPods as the microphone input which ruins the output sound quality.

Another app called Paper but it looks nice.

Journal Helper has a bunch of printable pages for your journal.

5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens

Delivering a dynamic hexagonal world map in just 10kb. This is the kind of shit I'm here for. Proper web stuff.

KeyPad is "a Mac app that lets you use your Mac keyboard and trackpad as a bluetooth keyboard and mouse". Smart.

Pica, a MacOS font management app

How To Make A Blockbuster Movie Trailer. I come back to this every few years because it's so good.

Golden tickets. Old tickets with cool fonts.

Another Day Closer to the End. A webapp for doing those "X is closer to Y than Y is to now" type things.

Mockdown — ASCII Wireframe Editor

Some Git Stash Commands I Find Useful

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