gm legends, happy Saturday.

A model fine-tuned to disagree with the person who made it, a switch that keeps your Mac working with the lid shut, and confetti for the wins nobody else notices. Plus makers on what actually started the whole thing.

nenspace is working memory, tasks, notes, habits and a logbook in one place, with Sam Morris's own fine-tuned models built in rather than an API call to somebody else's. Catch a thought while you're walking or cooking, drop it in working memory, and sort it later. Free to start, web and iOS.

🔥 Our Take: Sam's whole argument is that RLHF has trained every frontier model to agree with you, so ask one whether your bad idea is good and it says yes in four paragraphs. So he fine-tuned his own, nen-1, to be short and to question what you tell it, which he calls a refusal of the axis everyone else maximizes. A solo maker training models specifically to disagree with him is a stranger and better weekend than anything else on this board.

Clamshell keeps your Mac running with the lid closed, without a monitor, sudo or admin setup. Arm it from the menu bar, a shortcut, or by holding Option as you close the lid. The screen goes dark, the build carries on, and normal behavior returns the moment you open it again. It rechecks when power changes and cuts out on low battery.

🔥 Our Take: Matyas kept closing his MacBook on a running build or agent and coming back to find the lot had stopped. The existing fixes either only block idle sleep or flip a system-wide setting you forget you flipped, so he built the version that's off by default and armed on purpose. 500 people on Setapp and one bug report is a better proof of a small utility than any landing page.

Joy is a macOS menu bar app that throws confetti across your screen the second something good happens: a Stripe sale, a GitHub star, a Docker Hub pull. You pick what counts and how often, and there's a Wall of Wins to scroll back through without opening a chart.

🔥 Our Take: Jawahar built it because working on an indie product is surprisingly quiet, and the first sale that took you six months arrives as a row in a dashboard you have to go and look for. Every analytics tool on earth is built to show you numbers going up in aggregate, and none of them mark the moment. Silly on paper, and I suspect the people who need it most are the ones who'd never admit it.