Senior Product Manager at NerdPress

Hi, I’m Colin Devroe. I help teams make practical use of AI, shape useful products, 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.

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Short posts, quick observations, photos, links, and work-in-progress thinking.

May 4, 2026
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Nice touch by JSM to include RSS links in BTW № 5.

Apr 30, 2026
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Highly recommend Fat Gold co-owned by Robin Sloan. Delicious. And the wee guide that comes along with some products is 👌 A few tins of Fat Gold with the "How to use it up" guide

Apr 27, 2026
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Last week was a big week for agents. I wrote about the agentweb on Tuesday. To compete with Anthropic's managed agents service (which I've used a fair amount at this point and it is quite good) OpenAI released Workspace agents to a few customer…

Mar 31, 2026
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Hubbub Pro 2.29.1 (bug fixes) out the door.

Mar 26, 2026
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Small detail in Signboard… as you drag a card it begins to slightly tilt in the direction that you're dragging. Makes me happy. Signboard 1.1.0 is coming tomorrow and it will include curated color themes (so aesthetic) and importing from both Trello and Obsidian….

Mar 24, 2026
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Signboard has had a hidden secret from the beginning, you can import data from Trello. Starting in 1.1.0, which will ship this Friday, that feature will no longer be hidden. Oh, and you'll also be able to import from Obsidian and its leading community…

Mar 17, 2026
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Signboard running on Ubuntu and Windows 11. Ubuntu – Signboard and the Signboard CLI Windows 11 Bug fix release coming Friday.

Mar 17, 2026
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We released Hubbub Pro 2.29.0 today. We acquired this WordPress plugin just over 2 years ago and we've added tons of features and improvements that are helping publishers grow their websites, their mailing lists, and ultimately their revenue. Still so much more to do.

Mar 13, 2026
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Signboard 1.0.0 is available now. Free for personal use. One-time payment if you use it commercially. I hope people like it. I'll write more about it soon.

Feb 17, 2026
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If you are excited about and enjoy using LLMs, please take time to read contrarian views. Seek out those that have solid reasons for avoiding their use and listen to them. Read the data about the privacy, rights, energy, and natural resource issues that…

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A hand-curated selection of posts on AI, product, software, publishing, and the web.

Apr 27, 2026

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…

Apr 21, 2026

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,…

Apr 8, 2026

Takuya Matsuyama on avoiding burnout in the AI era

Takuya Matsuyama, developer of InkDrop, who I’ve been following for a few years wrote about maintaining mental health in the AI era for software developers. He also walked through Japan, enjoying the…

Apr 3, 2026

Signboard 1.2.0 adds restore from archive and three new color schemes

What do you do at 5am on a Friday? I release new versions of Signboard. Signboard's new "Coffee" color scheme Signboard 1.2.0 includes the following improvements: Added restore from archive view and…

Mar 27, 2026

Signboard 1.1.0 adds Trello and Obsidian import, new color schemes

This morning I released Signboard 1.1.0 which includes Trello and Obsidian import, new color schemes, the ability to archive entire lists of cards (and the list itself), and other improvements. Importing from…

Mar 20, 2026

Signboard is officially released

Signboard In September 2025 I wrote about Signboard and had started scratching away at making an app that I had wanted for a long time. Since then, I've been using the app…

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