Wordle의 제작자가 재미있는 새 퍼즐 게임을 만들었습니다.

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 119, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, hope your agents are well, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) Wordle’s creator made a fun new puzzle game Plus, in this week’s Installer: a new Sonos speaker, a huge Apple history book, the Bigfoot emoji, and much more. Plus, in this week’s Installer: a new Sonos speaker, a huge Apple history book, the Bigfoot emoji, and much more. This week, I’ve been reading about Pixar’s future and flight MH370 and sports gambling and YouTube Face, finally digging into Dungeon Crawler Carl after you recommended it so many times, hoping Rooster keeps being as good as its premiere, buying a MacBook Neo I definitely didn’t need, redesigning my Obsidian setup to James Bedford’s specifications, testing the Fairbuds XL headphones, and putting away all my winter clothes — only to drag them out again because it started snowing. Good times. I also have for you a new game to add to your daily list, an enticing new Sonos speaker, a huge new book about Apple’s first half-century, a fun new way to YouTube, and much more. Let’s get into it. (As always, the best part of Installer is your ideas and tips. What are you watching / reading / listening to / playing / taking on spring break this week? Tell me everything: [email protected]. And if you know someone else who might enjoy Installer, forward it to them and tell them to subscribe here.) The Drop - Parseword. A new game from Josh Wardle, the creator of Wordle, this one is based on the concept of cryptic crosswords. The concept is substantially harder to explain than Wordle, but tickles my word game-loving brain in a similarly delightful way. - The Sonos Play. Sonos’ first new speaker in more than a year is too expensive — $299 is just a lot for a wireless speaker — but otherwise sounds kind of ideal? Big and powerful enough to be a good living room speaker, portable enough to actually throw in a bag or carry to the backyard. And it does plain ol’ Bluetooth, too! I want one. - Apple: The First 50 Years. David Pogue’s latest book is 600 pages of deep Apple lore, lovely photos, and a lot of new information about how the company evolved over the decades. I’ve been paying attention to Apple for a long time, and I learned a ton from this book. - Perplexity Personal Computer. There are a bunch of apps coming out now that I would classify as “OpenClaw, but simpler and less risky.” People seem to like this one from Perplexity — it still requires a dedicated device and comes with some risks, but it’s a lot easier to get up and running. - “Is the brand new city in California for real?” I had kind of forgotten about California Forever, the tech-led proposal to build an entirely new city outside of San Francisco! This is a great episode of the Volts podcast digging into how the city would work. I’m looking forward to part two. - The Bigfoot emoji. The Unicode 17.0 standard is starting to roll out to devices — it’s currently in a bunch of Apple betas — and it includes a bunch of good new emoji! But I feel like we need to, right now, decide on a culturally useful reason to use the Bigfoot emoji all the time. Like, does it mean “badass”? Or “I don’t believe that’s real”? Something else? I need your ideas. We need to make this happen. - Channel Surfer. This web app puts YouTube into an old-school grid of TV channels, so you can flip between videos like you’d scroll your hotel room TV. But you can also import your own subscriptions, which actually makes this one of the best lean-back YouTube experiences I’ve ever encountered. - My WordPress. I almost don’t know what to make of this: You can now install a local version of WordPress that is confined to your browser, requires zero setup, and kind of just works. It’s WordPress as local operating system, I think? I’m a little confused by it, but fascinated by the rise in local-browser apps. Over the last few months, I’ve been hearing from a lot of you that you want to see how other people are using AI. Their tools, their setups, the stuff they’re building, everything. What a good and Installer-y idea! So in this space, not every week but certainly from time to time, we’ll swap homescreen sharing for AI sharing. First up: Brian Lovin, who works as a designer at Notion and is also a prolific developer and designer on the side. (If you checked out Shiori, the bookmarking app I mentioned here a couple of weeks ago, you’re already familiar with his work.) Brian and I jumped on a call the other day to talk about his setup and how he gets it all done. Here’s a screenshot he sent me, for when he’s AI-ing from mobile: The first thing Brian told me about was a prompt he loves, which he attributed to Notion cofounder Simon Last: “Step back and think really hard. How can we make this simpler and dumber while still achieving our goals?” He says he uses that prompt 20 times a day with AI coding agents