Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 30, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. This week, I’ve been playing the fun puzzler Close Cities, scrounging up money to buy TikTok, reading the latest in my favorite spy-thriller series, debating becoming a mansion squatter, testing Today for simple tasks, taking notes on this great video about the editing in Oppenheimer, and yelling “SPACE!” while watching the most recent SpaceX launch.
I will shout out one app: NYC Ferry, which lets me navigate my fair city by sea instead of subway. If you live in New York City and you don’t use the ferry, I genuinely don’t know what you’re doing. Finally: I’m big on glanceable info, so I use a trio of widgets to make sure I’m getting useful data the second I open my phone.