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Where Can I Watch? 1.2.0: Episode Tracking and More

Where Can I Watch? started off as an app with a single purpose: tell me what service is streaming a show or movie. But the more I used the app (and the more a few users contacted me), the more it made sense to also track all of the shows and movies that are being watched. And with shows, there are obviously multiple episodes and, for most, multiple seasons.

So in the latest version, in addition to fixing a few things, I added per-season episode tracking. 1.2.0 has shaped up to be the biggest feature release since the initial launch of the app.


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BurnRate 1.4.0: It Updates Itself Now

A few weeks back I shipped BurnRate. It’s a small macOS menu bar app that shows your Claude Code usage limits at a glance. It had a solid enough response and a some people dug it enough to use it daily (myself included, of course).

But there’s a problem: how do those people know when there’s a new version?

The answer, until now, was “they don’t.” They’d have to check in with me or the product page or just stumble into it.

Not exactly ideal

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TuneLink: Easily Convert Music Links Between Spotify and Apple Music

A friend sends you a Spotify link. You’re an Apple Music subscriber. You tap it, Spotify opens (or the App Store depending no your setup), and now you’re searching for the song manually. Or someone in a group chat drops an Apple Music link and half the group can’t use it. It’s a small friction, but it happens (at least in my group chats).

TuneLink fixes this. Share a link from one service, get the equivalent on the other and it’s automatically added to your clipboard.


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How To Find Missing More Tags in Your WordPress Posts

If you’ve been running a WordPress blog for any length of time and you use – or used to use – the more tag, you’ve probably got some of your posts with the tag and some without the tag.

That’s how most of my archive pages are at this point, anyway.

I chalk it up to my own inconsistency but I got tired of finding a post, manually editing it, then moving on.

So I built a plugin to find them all at once.

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