Andrew Warner and Adam review the week’s repositories on The Next New Thing (33:59): three opening picks, the main countdown and a viewer-project showcase.

Newsletters, TVs and video formats

  • MailCheap (00:18) — agent-accessible newsletters with self-hosted and hosted options; running the app and delivering email still carry costs.
  • CleanYourTV (02:26) — disables unwanted Android/Google TV packages and changes the launcher while retaining the existing operating system.
  • Hypit (03:41) — adapts a reference video’s format into new variants; Adam distinguishes borrowing a format from appropriating someone’s face or voice.

Coding, inspection and review

  • REA (05:29) — connects agents to reverse-engineering tools; the hosts endorse debugging your own software but disagree over rebuilding proprietary applications.
  • Claude Plugins Official (09:19) — the hosts recommend recurring security reviews; inspect individual plugins and verify proposed fixes before treating a scan as reassurance.
  • Ruflo (11:21) — coordinates agents with distinct roles, instructions and tools, including planning, implementation and review.
  • OpenCode (18:12) — an open-source coding agent whose surrounding execution software can be inspected and customized; Adam describes building on it at his studio.

Skills worth reading before installing

  • Android Skills (14:25) — official task-specific Android guidance; the discussion highlights on-device AI, battery use and app lifecycle behavior.
  • Scientific Agent Skills (16:48) — research workflows and scientific-tool guidance; the hosts also flag complaints about promotional instructions inside the collection.
  • Cursor Plugins (23:32) — Lauren Tan’s pstack bundles engineering workflows; its catchup example summarizes changes and decisions waiting for the user.

Desktop access, memory and voice

  • CLI-Anything (20:37) — builds command-line interfaces agents can use to operate applications; generating new integrations depends on accessible source code and testing.
  • AI Memory (25:01) — preserves project context across coding agents; Adam’s example is finding work stranded in a different agent on another computer.
  • VoiceStudio (26:54) — local voice cloning and voice design with desktop installers; hardware needs and voice permissions still apply.

First Stars: viewer projects

  • Presenter (28:26) — turns agent-written slides and narration into a shareable presentation, with speech generated locally and hosting provided by Bisque.
  • Delegate Router (28:57) — sends bounded work to another model while the host keeps design and verification; Jev is an optional classifier and file scout.
  • SHOW (30:36) — separate content ratings for explicitness, romantic intensity, darkness and transgression help readers choose stories beyond a single star score.
  • Karpathy Skills Extended (31:53) — asks about consequential missing intent after checking what the repository and tools can already answer.
  • Container (32:11) — persistent Linux workspaces limit an agent’s access; mounted files, enabled credentials and network connections still need care.