Web Excursions for February 2nd, 2026

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I Love a Piano I met Max Mellman at Macstock and we became fast friends. His first app is a piano synth with multiple on-screen scrollable keyboards, different piano sounds, and a built in music player with fine scrubbing for learning along with your favorite music. The Lawyer’s Guide to Podcasting A book from my friend Michael D.J. Eisenberg ((The Tech-Savvy Lawyer): The Lawyer’s Guide to Podcasting: Building Your Brand, Audience, Tech Stack, and Expertise! rhsev/mi.lan: A lightweight URL bridge for macOS automation, and a companion for dy.lan, which I wrote about last week. ‎Vimari App - App Store A port of Vimium for Safari. Vimium is one of my favorite extensions on Chrome and Firefox, and I’d always missed it on Safari, not realizing someone had already ported it. ‎LinkThing Not perfect, but if you need to view and search your linkding bookmarks, this runs on all Apple platforms and does the trick. moltbot/moltbot: Your own personal AI assistant. A personal chatbot assistant for any OS and any platform. I think this is what I’m going to do with one of the 2012 Mac minis I picked up for $25. Gas Town - multi-agent workspace manager We talked about this at some length on the last Overtired. Run multiple AI coding agents simultaneously with lots of useful features. Not cheap to implement fully, but powerful. UpScrolled is live

If you’ve been waiting for a real alternative to Instagram, this is it.

From a Palestinian-Australian developer and supported by Tech for Palestine, a solid looking alternative to Instagram that allows text updates and no shadow banning/censorship. Right now it’s mostly my source for news from Gaza, but I’m curious to see how it grows. They’ve already hit limitations of scale and are updating rapidly.

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