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From the blogSixty things in a year, and staying quick without getting sloppy
Piksi's picker asking you to choose between two options

Piksi

Decide what you actually like, one question at a time

Piksi asks you to pick between two things at a time and builds a ranking from your answers, because choosing between two is easy and ranking twenty is not. Free to use, with a paid pack for planning a wedding together.

A Close Enough report for a Brunswick address, listing key findings for transport, school zone, overlays and air quality

Close Enough

Look up what surrounds any Victorian address

Address-level data on transport, parks, schools, and planning overlays. Enter any Victorian address to see walking distances, flood zones, and more.

A phone showing a group chat being scrolled, and the full chat as plain text beside it

Scrollscript

Scroll recordings to text, on your iPhone

Record your screen while you scroll through a chat, an article or a document, and get the whole thing back as text. An iPhone app that reads the recording on the device with Apple's text recognition: no account, no analytics, no network access. One-off purchase on the App Store.

A paragraph of English with a few words swapped into Spanish, and a slider for how much Spanish to show

Pepper

Learn a language in the margins of what you already read

A browser extension that swaps a few words on every page you read into Spanish, French, Italian or Portuguese, choosing only words whose meaning never depends on context. Always on, paused when you want. Tap to check, tap again to hear it, and practise on any passage with a slider that moves from words to phrases to whole sentences. On Chrome now; Safari for iPhone, iPad and Mac is coming.

Evidiant topic list, each topic showing how many claims are established, disputed, debunked or unresolved

Evidiant

The sourced record on contested topics

What's established, what's disputed, and who actually says so. Deep-researched topics where every claim is placed in a status ledger and cited to primary sources, with source-independence signals so you can tell real corroboration from echoes. It shows the evidence; it never picks the verdict.

Melbourne's year divided into seven data-derived seasons, each with dates, temperatures, rain and sun

Melbourne Seasons

How many seasons does Melbourne really have?

45 years of daily weather data, 1981 to 2025, analysed with changepoint detection to find where Melbourne's year naturally divides. The data says seven seasons, not four. Explore other counts, compare each season's climate fingerprint, and read the method.

Supper Court asking what's for dinner, with Start a court, Just me and Pass the phone

Supper Court

Pick dinner together

A group dinner decider. Answer a few quick questions alone, by passing one phone around, or each on your own phone from a shared link, and the court narrows sixty kinds of dinner to a shortlist of three with plain reasons. Only a veto rules something out, and a pick that went against someone says so. No accounts, and a shared court is deleted 24 hours after it last changed.

Cartemark's sample report: an example takeaway menu against places like it, each answer saying how many menus it rests on

Cartemark

Your menu against the Melbourne market

For restaurant owners. Give it your menu as a link, a PDF or pasted text, say what kind of place you are, and see how your prices, length and dishes compare with the menus Melbourne venues publish. Every answer says how many menus it rests on, and no other venue is ever named. Also works from your own AI agent.

Games

Learn and practise

Look it up, with receipts

Reference sites where every claim is a direct quote from a named source, dated and linked. What a field merely repeats is kept apart from what a primary source establishes.

Melbourne and Victoria

Make up your mind

Shared with other people

Words and text

Make something