MicroThings No. 1

This is my quarterly things that I love link drop.

MicroThings is the best name I have for this right now. The format is simple, though: once a quarter, I want to drop a handful of links to products, websites, music, and experiments that have been making my life better, sharpening my taste, or just making me excited to sit down at my computer.

Some of these are tools. Some of them are resources. Some of them are just things I've been enjoying lately that make long work sessions feel a little better. Either way, here are a few favorites from this year so far.

For Sharpening Taste

Details That Make Interfaces Feel Better

This is one of those delightful little resources that immediately makes you want to tighten up your work.

It is basically a reminder that good interface design is usually a game of tiny decisions: spacing, shadows, motion, timing, icon sizing, type choices, hover states, and all the other details that are easy to overlook when you're moving fast. I love resources like this because they keep you sharp on the basics that actually separate "works fine" from "feels great."

The best part is that it is not just useful for designers. It is also a great thing to hand to your agentic coding setup so the stuff you generate does not stop at functional.

Logo System

I love this site.

This is usually my first stop whenever I need quick branding inspiration for a side project, a friend, or some small commission work. It is wonderfully curated, easy to browse, and full of marks that actually have taste instead of feeling like somebody dumped a hundred random Dribbble shots into a gallery and called it a day.

The people behind this have clearly put a ton of time into building a beautiful archive, and it shows.

For Building

T3 Code

This is genuinely my favorite agentic coding tool right now.

What I like about it is that it does not try to be everything. It lets the labs make the best harnesses they can make, and then it focuses on nailing the experience around actually working with them. Multiple providers, operators, projects, branches, and worktrees all at once, right on your machine, in a free and open source app that feels thoughtfully made.

It is one of the first tools in this category that has made multitasking across coding sessions feel genuinely natural for me instead of slightly chaotic.

I will admit I might be a little biased because I have been a big fan of Theo's work and opinions for a while now, but even setting that aside, this app just gets a lot right.

MacWhisper

Good transcription apps are everywhere. Good free ones are not.

The second I saw that MacWhisper had a free tier, I jumped on it, and I am literally using it to write most of this post. The local models are not perfect and you will occasionally catch a tiny weird transcription hiccup, but for a free tool, it is kind of ridiculous how useful it is.

What really sold me is the UI. It stays out of the way, feels fast, and is always right there when I need it. That responsiveness matters a lot more than people think.

For Locking In

Lost Sanctuary by Dusqk

I do my best deep work with music on. Always.

This mix has been in heavy rotation for long focus sessions lately. Dusqk is already one of my favorite artists to work to, and this release hit at exactly the right time. It has that calm, immersive, late-night energy that lets me settle in for a few hours and just stay there.

If you are also the kind of person who needs sound in the room to really lock in, there is a good chance this lands for you too.

For Play And Home Setup

iiSU

This Android launcher has single-handedly changed the way I play video games on my handheld.

I recently picked up an Android handheld to emulate a bunch of older games I either never got to play growing up or could not afford at the time. iiSU has been a breath of fresh air. It is beautiful, fast, snappy, and weirdly influential on the way I think about interfaces now.

The audio, the motion, the polish, the whole visual system just makes my brain happy. Even if you are not into emulation, it is worth looking at purely as a great piece of interface design.

Stargazer

This one makes me smile because it is mine.

I designed, conceptualized, and built Stargazer during the stretch when the Artemis II mission had me fully locked into anything space-related. I wanted a place where I could aggregate space data, explore it visually, and make it feel a little more alive than a pile of dashboards and raw tables.

It turned into a live 3D solar system explorer that pulls together public space data in a way that feels playful and useful at the same time. I learned a ton while making it, had an absurd amount of fun doing it, and it reminded me how much I love building things just because I am curious about them.

If you have not seen it yet, I am genuinely proud of this one.

Pi-hole

I will not live in a house or apartment without Pi-hole on the network. Full stop.

If you have a Raspberry Pi or an old machine sitting around, this is one of the highest-value things you can do with it. It is a total game changer. Better browsing, less junk, less tracking, less nonsense floating around your network all day.

Even if you are not the kind of person with a full homelab, Pi-hole is still one of those rare recommendations that feels almost universal to me.

That's The Drop

That is the first MicroThings.

Maybe the name sticks. Maybe it evolves into something else. But I really like this format already. It is part digest, part recommendation list, part internet scrapbook, and I am planning to do one of these four times a year.

If even one of these links turns into a new favorite for you, this post did its job.