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A cool tool can be any book, gadget, software, video, map, hardware, material, or website that is tried and true. All reviews on this site are written by readers who have actually used the tool and others like it. Items can be either old or new as long as they are wonderful. We post things we like and ignore the rest. Suggestions for tools much better than what is recommended here are always wanted.
reMarkable Paper: I always need to write things down, to clear my head and capture ideas. My phone was already overflowing with notes, but this (fairly expensive) toy helped me turn that chaos into something tidy. Bonus: they even have a refurbished section.
Computer Engineering for Babies: it’s the very first gift I gave my newborn daughter. Because yes, I care a lot about nurturing a young girl’s engineering mindset. And okay, I’ll admit it: I’m a total nerd and I love the idea of sharing that passion with her.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33: simply the best video game I’ve ever played (no French bias tbh). I’m so obsessed that I’d go to a concert just to hear its soundtrack, which took two years to compose. It’s also the only game I’ve finished completely and then replayed in New Game+ mode.
DIGITAL
My new project Looties. It’s the marketplace dedicated to merch from the tech ecosystem. It enables developers to buy and resell pieces from conferences and events, in a space where tech culture is collected, passed on, and kept in circulation.
The talk from Steve Winslow at PyTorch Conf 25: Genuinely, this was the only talk I managed to attend and somehow the most refreshing one I’ve been to in a long time. Clear, well-vulgarized, short, and actually useful. It introduced something genuinely new (a new OSS license for AI models) instead of recycling the usual noise.
INVISIBLE
Being authentic is about being honest, not impressive — favoring truth over optics, and refusing to say what I can’t defend with facts.
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