Our favorite stuff of 2025
TL;DR
This week's Installer newsletter covers holiday topics like mall Santas and phone bans, personal interests such as Ugmonk notebooks and Switch 2 gaming, and tech tools like MCP for note-taking workflows.
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 110, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy holidays, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.)
This week, I've been reading about mall Santas and malleable software and phone bans, wondering how I barely know any of the songs in DJ Earworm's annual mashup, waiting patiently for Ugmonk's Layflat notebooks to go back on sale, finally setting up my Switch 2 Camera for some holiday gaming, trying desperately to not come in last place in my fantasy football league, using MCP to build some really weird note-taking workflows …