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Red Bull’s website has a blog post about photography on it (cool!) that says “Blogs aren’t really a thing anymore.” (ironic, and not cool!). I’m glad I’m not fond of Red Bull.
Christoph Rauscher on agency
Christoph Rauscher, in a post about his 6th year running a weeklong workshop called Writing = Design (which sounds lovely): It was so peaceful, this one week of human writing. We developed…
Will the AI sprint end?
Merlin Rebrović: … I’m using AI to design AI-powered tools and I work with some people who are AI-pilled. When I get home, I read and listen to AI maximalists and billionaires’…
There were issues with Signboard’s updater on Windows and Linux. Those have now been fixed so if you’re running Signboard 1.5.0 or earlier you should be able to update to 1.6.0 now.
Finished reading Meat Eater by Steven Rinella. I enjoy a good outdoor adventure story. Even hunting stories. So often lately the story has become about the gear and the trophy… and the over-hyped energy around a kill. All the wrong reasons to be hunting in my opinion. Steve doesn’t really do that. And he started humble.
Signboard 1.6 has shipped. It is so fast.
Iris Photos 1.0
Tyler Hall: The first version, from November 2020, was called AntiPhoto. The name was a mood. I had tens of thousands of photos and videos scattered across drives and old phone backups,…
Models, models everywhere
Models. Big huge scary models. Small, purpose-built models. Slow models. Fast models. Expensive models. Local models. Models. Models. Models. Which model should you pick for your question, task, or goal? How much…
🥹 Tony.
Mark all as read
Famously, for years I have read every single blog post in NetNewswire, every tweet on Twitter (when that website existed), and every toot on Mastodon for the websites and accounts that I…
Signboard is my favorite.
Pruning again with Tracy Durnell
Tracy Durnell is shaking things up: I’ve done a purge of my feed reader (down to 80 feeds lol). Rather than defaulting to my phone, I’m recommitting to books as my after-lunch…
Signboard 1.5 has more features than you’ll ever use
There is no white-walled room, pre-recorded, distillation of the essence of chamfered edges here… or talk about liquid anything. This post is about how Signboard is quickly becoming so feature-rich you likely…
I think WWDC 2026 looked fantastic. Great updates across the board. I have the feeling a lot of people will be installing the public betas. Oh, and I’m glad Shortcuts can be written by an agent. Because this human was terrible at it.
I’m trying to record a demo video of all of Signboard’s features, including those that will ship in version 1.5 (coming soon), and I’m just failing miserably. I’ll do it another day. So many great features in this app.
Unlocked.
A wee bug fix release of Signboard 1.4.1 was just released. I am looking forward to writing and sharing more about this app, and how I and others are using it, very soon. My productivity is through the roof.
Our appearance on The Simple Pin Media Podcast #462
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFI_HGYvAPA Andrew Wilder, CEO of NerdPress, and I were on The Simple Pin Media Podcast Episode #462 with host Kate Ahl. The bulk of the episode walks through 3 core features of…
Signboard 1.4.0 just shipped and it includes a new Planner workspace that contains the date-based views of Calendar, This Week, and new Day and Agenda views. This allows you to get a bird’s eye view of all of your open Boards (or, drill down into just one).
I’ll write more about this release when I have time.
Terry Godier on the boring internet
Terry Godier: The blogs you read in 2012 redirect to parked domains. The forums where you learned what you know got bought, gutted, redesigned, and left to rot. Terry must be tons…
Tina Collier on why WordPress breaks
WordPress takes a lot of heat. Some of that heat has been thrown by me. It can be frustrating to run a WordPress-powered site, to develop products for it, to ship code…
Bulldozer (best name worst name?), my very simple but rickety PHP script I’ve used for years to help me move images into yyyy/mm/dd directories based on their creation date, was just updated significantly to be much more reliable and also work very well with agents. Get the latest on GitHub.
Big spike of traffic to my post about making a goal to get bored more often. Boredom is more important than ever.
Andrew Wilder on addressing vulnerabilities for NerdPress clients
Andrew Wilder (our CEO), on the NerdPress blog: From start to finish, this was a coordinated team effort: updates, firewall protections, client communication, and vendor collaboration all happening in parallel. It’s a…
Craig Mod on iPadOS and macOS
Craig Mod: Here is the insane business plan of what I would do, the thoughts of some fool on a hill halfway across the world: No more keyboards or mouse support for…
Nice touch by JSM to include RSS links in BTW № 5.
