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128, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, sorry this one’s so Mac-heavy, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage. )This week, I’ve been reading about David Attenborough and screenwriters-turned-AI-trainers and the Subway Takes guy, listening to a lot of Productivity FM’s mixes while I work, finally writing my vibe-coding opus, testing the Poppy AI assistant (and giving it more of my data than I frankly should have), tracking my pathetic step counts with the new Fitbit Air, buying more of The Atlantic’s summer reading list than I will ever plausibly read, watching a lot of Maxinomics videos after the one on quartz went viral, drowning in the nostalgia of my all-time Spotify Wrapped playlist, and switching browsers for the first time in forever.

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I’ve been following this Mac app’s development for a while, and I’m a big fan. It does a great job of hunting down huge files, un-needed apps, memory-hungry processes, and other things mucking up your computer, without being overzealous about it (or constantly trying to upcharge you). For $9, I can’t recommend it enough.

This advance offers important signals about the future of the sector, and the tech world is watching closely.