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Hello friends! Welcome to Installer No. 124 is your guide to the best and edge-The most wonderful things in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, send me your Coachella sizes, and you can also read all the back issues at Installer Home.)
This week I was reading about it Restaurant bread and GLP-1s and Lenny Rachitsky and Artemis II costumesto watch New boy band doc Because I will always watch the boy band doc, and I will also watch all of them section I can find from Justin Bieber’s Coachella set, fill Schitt’s Creek-A heart-shaped hole Big mistakesbecame increasingly excited The Mandalorian and GroguAnd water my new garden so it doesn’t die. Please don’t die, grass. I was very expensive.
I also have some new AI apps to install on your computer, new action cameras worth planning a trip around, a new sci-fi action game to play, and much more.
Oh, and a reminder: Send me the thing you made! We are doing self promotion week Installer (Maybe next week but maybe the week after), either way I want to hear about the stuff you’ve been making, building, coding, creating, whatever you think the Installerverse might like. I’ve already heard from a lot of you, and this is the rule – keep the good stuff coming! Let’s dig.
(As always, the best part of… Installer These are your thoughts and advice. What are you watching/reading/playing/listening to/store on your NAS device this week? Tell me everything: installer@theverge.com. And if you know someone else who might enjoy it InstallerSend it to them and let them know Subscribe here.)
- OpenAI manuscript. Here’s OpenAI’s latest stab at All-in-one super AI appwhich includes a web browser, new coding tools, and a setting that allows Codex to use only your computer. Take it lightly, as always, but people seem to be liking Codex a lot lately.
- Gemini for Mac. I’m angry at Google for tying its Mac app to a keyboard shortcut that a lot of people use for other things, and for making the app a default login item. but! This is the instantly best way to interact with Gemini, and even Google Drive and Photos, from your computer. In my dock it goes.
- meat Season two. meat It’s one of the best shows that no one ever seems to talk about. I’ve been burned before by the “we’ll do it again but with a whole new cast” premise – I’m looking at you; True Detective – But that’s a win even as a reason to rewatch the first season.
- Gradient weather. I think someone has finally created the cool, simple weather app that Android has been so desperate for. It’s very new and very experimental, but I love the look, and I love that the whole aesthetic changes with the weather. Install insta.
- Lorne. By all accounts, this is the closest anyone can get to an inside look Saturday Night Live And its semi-legendary creator, Lorne Michaels. Morgan Neville often makes great docs and gets a lot of access to this one; I’m so excited to watch it.
- “Where do all these GPUs actually go?“A very interesting answer to a surprisingly complex question: What are corporations? a job With the unbelievable amounts of chips they buy? The numbers are all a bit of a pretense, and How Money Works does a good job of making sense.
- DJI Osmo Pocket 4. It’s very sad that this gimbal won’t be coming to the US in the near future, because more buttons, better slow motion, and more built-in storage are all great upgrades. I use the Pocket 3 all the time, and will keep an eye on the upgrade.
- GoPro Mission 1 Pro ILS. This one It’s still in “coming soon” mode.but it is the first GoPro camera in a long A time I was excited about. The addition of an interchangeable lens mount, along with all of the other Mission 1 upgrades, will completely change the types of things people do with GoPros. I can’t wait to see this thing in the wild.
- Coachella TV. I haven’t spent a lot of time watching Coachella live streams on YouTube, but this year’s show was amazing. It’s as if a concert doc was filmed in real time — and there’s more Bieber to come!
- practical. I’m always here for a game that doesn’t try to be a live action, battle royale, open world, or anything else, and instead sends you on an adventure. You may suffer from being A touch too derivativebut it still seems like it’s pretty much my game.
I was a fan Maria PopovaWorked for… almost as long as I can remember. Maria runs a website called Marginal, Which I started following when he was contacted Brain choices; Under both names, the site has become a fountain of things worth reading, with surprising and clever thoughts on just about everything. I spend a lot of time reading and online, and I can’t think of anyone who will show me more things that I wouldn’t have found otherwise.
Maria released a book earlier this year called passingIt’s all about how people look at, think about and account for the world around them. there a lot It happens in this book, and I think you’ll like it. I asked Maria to share her home screen, curious if she also had a more informed outlook on all things tech.
Here’s Maria’s home screen, plus some information about which apps she uses and why:
Phone: iPhone 16 – It’s still too big for me, but I had to reluctantly give it up after the last 13 smaller devices gave up Moore’s ghost.
wallpaper: The spring moon rises behind the maple leaves in the forest where I live most of the year.
Applications: Evernote, Phone, Safari. (Empty spaces It is an application that converts symbols into text.)
The usual life management tools (calendar, contact, climate) plus Evernote, which I’ve used since 2003 and which is now an Alexandria of meticulously organized information that pretty much runs my life.
I also asked Maria to share some of the things she’s interested in right now. Here’s what I sent back:
- Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss.
- Joan as a record of policewomen Lemons, limes and orchids.
- Jad Abu Murad series Fela Kuti: Fear no one.
- A beautiful reminder of who we can be in the story How did humanity save ginkgo?.
Here’s what Installer community this week. I want to know what you’re up to now too! Email installer@theverge.com Or send me a message on Signal — @davidpierce.11 — with your recommendations for anything and everything, and we’ll feature some of our favorites here each week. For more great recommendations, check out the responses to This post is on topics and This post is on Bluesky.
“Recommended by Becca Varsace the Oh Snap Macon on her channel recently and caught one. It’s very cool and works great with the Delta simulator so far. I got Golden eye Works well with it after a little tuning.” – Ian
“I really enjoyed it Plain text sports To follow the start of the baseball season. It loads fast, and I have everything I need without using any ESPN tools” – Rich
“I’m almost done reading Service model By Adrian Tchaikovsky And I’m Obsessed: Equal amounts of humor and existential dread. It’s so silly, so thoughtful, so honest edge“Deal with technology.” – Olof
“YouTube has been my go-to place lately for watching surprisingly good short films that you’ll probably never hear about or will likely get lost in the Hollywood machine. For example, this one is called Was thwarted He was amazing and there are more like him out there.” – Steve
“Definitely watch the funny, quirky and informative John Boas A series about the birth of the Internet Mashed with Home improvement TV show references.” —Logan
“I bought a MacBook Air a few weeks ago after looking at the Neo and getting bored with Windows, and bought a few helper apps to fix the little annoyances I had with the notch and screen
Highlight. There are a lot of good apps but I bought them Alcove – Showing the notch when I turn the volume up and down makes the giant black bar in the middle of my screen seem a little less useful. I’ve been using it too Tiny StartAnd it really is
Fast and beautiful! These two helper apps have made using my Mac as my main computer look much better than it did the last time I tried them. – The iris
“My passion for discovering TTRPGs and learning about game design led me to delve into the Youtube channel Knights of last call. The long live streams, on-demand videos, and very active community have opened my eyes to more of what is possible in TTRPGs. – Simon
“Season three Shrink On Apple TV it just ended on such a strong note. The cast continues to deliver and the writing realistically addresses all kinds of human issues that we all deal with or know about. A+” – Aaron
“I’ve found a lot of great book recommendations thanks to you The big idea Feature on John Scalzi’s blog, whatever!” – Steve
You probably know this already, but I spend a lot of time snacking. Eat them. Search for them. Think about them. I long for more of them. I know I’m not alone! So I have big news: I recently brought my wife home A variety of candy from YumEarthAnd everything is excellent. It’s basically Skittles, Starbursts and Sour Patch Kids, but with more natural ingredients and less sugar. (But it’s still a lot of sugar, because it is sweet. Sugar-free candy is a lie.)
I’m always looking for a way to improve my bad habits a little, without making my life worse in the process. This one is perfect. The equivalent of Skittles is called “Giggles,” which is terrible, but delicious. So I’ll allow that. I’ll go get some now.
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