Steven Kryger

This year I joined every club in the #NRL. From the Broncos to the Warriors, I am now a card-carrying member of all 17 clubs. I wanted to compare the experience of becoming a member for the first time. → dub.sh/fans-journey @foxnrl @triplemNRL @codenrl @TheRoarSports

@problogger Love these suggestions - checking them out! Have you used Alfred as a launcher?

NEW on the blog tonight - 5 apps I started using in April... plus one I returned to after 2 years away from it. 👉 darrenrowse.com/posts/5-apps-i…

@BradyShearer Do kids feel like they stand out?

A clean trick from a few church kid check-in setups: a red wristband for kids whose parents don't want them photographed. Visual, cheap, no awkward sorting in editing later. Worth using if your church takes any photos during kids ministry.

@problogger I’m building a tool that helps us letterbox our neighbours in the lead up to events such as Christmas and Easter.

If someone had told me a year ago that I'd have built 7 working tools/apps for our team with AI I'd have laughed so hard. No coding experience, no tech background, but a willingness to learn a new tool (Claude Code). It's produced 7 tools that each solve a specific problem.

@problogger So good! A friend is using AI to write prayers for church, but I think that’s a step too far.

@problogger Claude helped me to create a family devotional series on the book of Ecclesiastes. It’s also been a helpful companion when I’ve been preparing Bible studies.

Twenty years ago, pastors debated whether Google was legitimate for sermon research. Today, that seems absurd. We're in the same moment with AI. Here's a new article on why I started using it in ministry and what I've learned. darrenrowse.com/posts/why-i-st…

@domwhyte42 I’ve got two spreadsheets I’ve started building as apps in Zite. It’s pretty cool!

A lot of business software lives in spreadsheets because building a full app (with frontend + backend + permissions) used to be too expensive That tradeoff is starting to change, and we just made it a bit easier in Zite 👇

Loomly got a rebrand. When I visited today, I thought I'd accidentally visited the @buffer website.

Membership growth doesn't require big promotional budgets. It requires noticing. The @sydneyswans noticed that member Glenn regularly buys a guest pass at games. So they called him with a membership upgrade. He now has a second membership. As Glenn put it: "They saw a need and had a solution." How many Glenns are in your database right now?

Guys, how are we going back there? Guys, can you hear me? Guys?

@david_perell There’s gotta be a term for doing something to feed the algorithm that also feels uncomfortable.

The state of the Internet in a nutshell: For 2.5 years, whenever I published a video on YouTube, I'd come up with a bespoke title / thumbnail that accurately described what the conversation was about. Then, during the summer, my view count fell. Nothing worked until I found a formula: "How to Write ________ Well." Always the same text. Throw an adverb in the middle, then share a quote from the interview in the thumbnail. People are 0.5% - 1% more likely to click on that title format, so the channel has exploded in growth. This title format is worse for my viewers and soul-deadening for me, but it's leading to so many more views that I'd be crazy not to follow it — and people are significantly more likely to click on videos with the formulaic title. This isn't just a story about YouTube. So much of the Internet works like this now.

@The_Kyle_Mann We started playing Bomb Buster this Christmas. 15 challenges in and agree it’s a 10/10!

5. Bomb Busters 2-5 players 30 minutes A little thinkier than most on this list, but you try to cooperatively figure out what number cards (tiles, actually) your teammates have in their hand without cutting the red wire. Great deduction, intense time. 10/10

Looking for something you can play over and over with the family? Look no further. My most-played board games of 2025! A🧵:

My mum frequently donated blood. As a child, I remember accompanying her to these appointments during school holidays and sitting with my sisters on the comfy chairs next to her even comfier chair. We always wanted to join in with the milkshakes, biscuits and jellybeans - but these were only for the people who had given blood! I remember the sticker she would get each time - "Be nice to me - I gave blood today." I don't know why she started, but it was my mum's example that prompted me to start donating blood when I was in year 12. I gave regularly, then less regularly, then today I realized I haven't donated in more than 3 years. The "urgent" just overtook the "important." There's always an urgent need for blood, but today the need is even more urgent. Fifteen people killed and 27 people remain in hospital following an act of unimaginable evil targeting Australia's Jewish community. I've just booked in to donate. If you can, please join me.

@tomeromrix @base44 Let’s go

I work at @base44 , so I see many prompts every day. Most of them are okay. Some are good. But about 1% are genius. I spent the last week analyzing that top 1%. The results were honestly shocking. 🤯 Most users prompt like they are talking to a human: "Make a cool, modern website for a tech company." (Results: Generic, boring, hallucinations). If you want to learn how to prompt and vibe code like a pro Drop a comment below, and I'll send the guide to your inbox. 📥

@anothercohen I create a Hub Doc in Google Docs and link to everything from there.

I’ve now tried Coda, Notion, Monday, ClickUp, and Outline for our internal company documentation and I hate them all. Google Drive and Docs remain elite but lack organization. How is everyone handling this?

@briansowards How does that look on YouTube?

@StevenKryger Filters are more important than feeds

I've seen the same YouTube ad ~100 times. I'd like a button on ads (on YouTube, Google, Facebook) that I could click to say: "It doesn't matter how many times I see this ad, I'm not going to buy." I'm actually not anti-ad. Relevant ads are great. But seeing an irrelevant ad over and over isn't benefiting the brand or me.

@ericweinstein King Solomon had this experience.

Imagine you finally get all the power, control and wealth you dream of. You then buy all the stuff that you salivate over. Toys, homes, experiences. All of it. Okay. Tough Question: Now what? Seriously. After the party gets old: Now what?

@Seth_Troutt I'm using my time walking to dog to pray and listen to the Bible. It's been great.

"Much prayerlessness stems from the unwillingness to set proper boundaries on the dopamine doom-loops we’ve made peace with. In this sense, prayerlessness is laziness, passivity, and abdication. We share in the sin of Adam — letting the creation exercise dominion over us instead of rightly subduing that which God has placed under us."

@glenscrivener "They probably don't want to hear about Jesus" v "It would change their life if they met Jesus!"

This moment from Benjamin Zander is so resonant with approaches to evangelism. Some Christians’ whole theology of mission boils down to: “Only 3% of people go to (our kind of) church(es)… Let’s make it 4.” Zander inspires us with a very different outlook…

Definition of audacious. My 7 year old got a party invitation today. There was this note at the bottom: “No need for presents, but cash is king!