Hi, I’m Colin
Reverse engineer. Photographer.
Darkroom printer. Blogger.
Curator. Antiquarian.
Blog posts
A hand-curated selection of recently published posts.
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Selling software will still be the hard part
While reading Craig Mod’s post recalling the seventh year of his Special Projects membership (all of his yearly updates are worth reading and gleaning from) I noticed a link to Roden 102. I’m sure I…
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SpaceX buys xAI
I knew this was coming and I am still unable to fully process it. The scale of what is going on right now is too much to hold in my gelatinous human mind. I’m only…
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More friction, less reach
What should I post here? What should I post there? I’m struggling to find a balance that I like. My deepest self says post everything here, right on my own personal website. As broken and…
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Diversions #10: Kona’s first snow
Pretty rich that I am extolling the virtues of boredom while at the same time reviving a recently discontinued series of posts on my site called, of all things, Diversions. But hear me out. These…
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My 2026 goal is to be bored more often
What do you do with your time? I think the modern world has afforded us all more time than we know what to do with and we’re squandering it. I know this isn’t true for…
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Taranis: “LLMs are a failure”
Anon Taranis writes that LLMs are, in large part, a failure and that all AI companies have hit a wall that they’ll never surmount. I believe it is always good to read both sides of…
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Elizabeth Spiers on blogging
Elizabeth Spiers, writing on her own blog again finally, about how blogging is better than social media platforms because it is harder to pick a fight. I’m generalizing off course, go read her post. I…
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Hesitant thoughts on LLMs
I’ve wanted to write a follow-up to my April 2023 post How I’m using ChatGPT as an accelerator for several months. I want to share how I’m using AI today, what I think about it,…
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Unmark 2025.2, the removal of the free tier, and a price increase
Over the past few months of weekends, I managed to fix several longstanding bugs in Unmark. In fact, a beta of version 2025.2 is now available and will be released this week and is already…
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Signboard – A kanban app that writes Markdown files
I’ve wanted this for a long time – a kanban style productivity desktop app that writes Markdown files to disk. And that is what Signboard is. It looks like this. And here is this board…
Portfolio
A selection of creative projects from photography, painting, software and other mediums.
Projects
My current projects both personal and professional.
