Senior Product Manager at NerdPress
Hi, I’m Colin Devroe – Head of AI & Product at NerdPress and build tools for the open web.
I’ve been publishing on the web for decades. This site is where I share notes, essays, software projects, photography, art, and whatever I’m trying to understand next.
Latest Notes
Short posts, quick observations, photos, links, and work-in-progress thinking.
Featured Writing
A hand-curated selection of posts on AI, product, software, publishing, and the web.
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…
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…
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 1.3.0 adds checkboxes to task lists
I like to run Signboard releases myself for about a week before I release them, so this one took a little longer than previous releases. Version 1.3.0 changes up the typeface in…
First slowly, then all at once… the agentweb
Every app, website, SaaS product, cloud service, hosting platform, protocol, database, file system, and CLI is being rewritten for agents. What is an agent? An agent is an app that receives prompts,…
Projects
Software, products, publishing experiments, and creative tools I build or help shape.
NerdPress product
Hubbub
WordPress growth tools for social sharing, follow buttons, share counts, and email capture.
Open source
Signboard
A local-first kanban app that writes Markdown files. Open source, private, scriptable, and built for macOS, Windows, and Linux.
Side gig
Good Migrations
Reliable Stripe migrations for subscriptions, customers, products, prices, and coupons.
Open source
Unmark
A to-do app for bookmarks. Save links by intent, work through them deliberately, and run the open-source version yourself.
Art archive
The Watercolor Gallery
An online gallery and archive of watercolor art, currently being restored.
Daily game
Stupid
A free daily word game with a changing visual theme and its own small community.
Snaps
Photo notes and visual bits from the faster-moving side of the site.
Portfolio
Photography, art, darkroom work, paintings, and visual experiments.
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