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A friend recommended I try Kagi and I am impressed. I have previously tried search engines like Bing and DuckDuckGo and have found them lacking. I have always returned to Google. I am not feeling the same pull with Kagi.

When I started coding I would often have to convert and format things from one type to another. JSON would be scrunched together, dates would appear in weird “epoch time” format that meant nothing. So I was excited to discover DevUtils which takes many of the websites I found and later command line tools and aggregates them into one handy app.

AWS is one of the largest cloud platforms and we use it for our projects at Code for Boston. I spent this morning trying to figure out how to view logs from the past day on a project and boy was it a challenge.

• U2 released their Songs of Surrender acoustic album with a whole host of related content. Check out the NPR Tiny Desk Concert and Apple Music interview.
• Apple Maps adds 3D Landmarks to its Boston maps. Neat.
• Last night I made a frittata from Antoni Porowski’s cookbook for dinner.
• Engineers built a new kind of concrete that is two times stronger than the real thing. (News+)
• How Panda Express Makes 110 million Pounds of Orange Chicken a Year
• Nintendo announces its return to PAX East this year with multiple tournaments.

Yesterday my colleagues at TED launched My Library. A feature for registered users to be able to view their saved, liked, and watched talks and playlists in one place. I worked on some of the preliminary parts of this a while back, and am excited because it’s something I have been waiting for a while.