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Microsoft has released a new app called Loops, fully integrated with Microsoft 365 apps. It could potentially knock Notion off its throne?

Obsidian is a powerful and extensible knowledge base that works on top of your local folder of plain text files. Obsidian Canvas looks interesting too.

DDEV is a container-based local development environment. Randy Fay, the creator, gives a few reasons to try it. Not noted in the article, but it has explicit support for Craft CMS.

iA Presenter is a markdown-based slide generator. Looks like a niche market, but as a current user of iA Writer I'm sure it will live up to expectations. Beta is now open.

A video walkthrough from Kyle Van Deusen on how to set it up on a button click, page load, or form submission using Fathom Analytics EVENT TRACKING

DDEV v1.21.2 is out. PHP8.2, Craft CMS explicit support, TYPO3 v12, global project_tld, and loads of other improvements and fixes.

A VS Code extension to replace the need for Postman. The Thunder Client extension for VS Code can do all I need when testing HTTP Requests.

Inspired by the Windows 95 era PowerToys project, this reboot has some nice features for your workflow. Download the preview here. I'm loving FancyZones already.

While I've been ramping up my learning of Blender, I found PureRef invaluable. It's a cross-platform tool to organise and view reference images. Its really simple, really unobtrusive and perfect reference board.

How Do Lava Lamps Help with Internet Encryption? Cloudflare translates photos of 100 lava lamps into random data which helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet. More here.

I spent a couple of fruitless hours on this last weekend but in the meantime, Fujifilm has launched their own webcam software so I can use my X series with Windows 10 and Zoom in medium format! Download here