CDEVROE

Hi, I’m Colin

Reverse engineer. Photographer.
Darkroom printer. Blogger.
Curator. Antiquarian.

A blurry photo of Colin in his darkroom.

Blog posts

A hand-curated selection of recently published posts.

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • My appearance on Happy Subscribers S1 E43

    I recently had the privilege of recording an episode of Happy Subscribers and representing the team at NerdPress. Allea Grummert, of Duett, and I cover the topic of being ok with constant change, a never-ending…

  • Molly White on RSS as a newspaper

    Molly White recently wrote about how publications are moving to publishing newsletters because their search traffic is dwindling. One downside to us readers is that managing a bunch of newsletter subscriptions creates a lot of…

  • Favorite Toots 0.2.5 fixes embeds

    I love my favorite toots page which shows toots that I favorited on Mastodon recently. It is a nice showcase of people doing awesome things and sharing them on Mastodon. But it was broken for…

  • WWDC 2025 wish list

    I’m going to keep this simple so that I actually end up publishing this prior to WWDC. Here is my list of wishes for this year across Apple’s operating systems.

  • My appearance on The PublishPress Podcast

    My thanks to Steve Burge for inviting me on to The PublishPress Podcast. In this episode we chat about NerdPress, blogging, Hubbub, Hubbub’s Save This feature, social media, and the importance for publishers to own…

  • The vibe coding litmus test

    Unsure of what vibe coding is? See Simon Willison’s explanation of a term recently coined by Andrej Karpathy on X. It is a buzzword that is lighting the world in fire it seems. But I…

  • Spring is for unsubscribing

    A few times over the last several decades I’ve unsubscribed from every social media account, RSS feed, newsletter, YouTube channel, etc. and started with a clean slate. My goal was, as I wrote about in…

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Portfolio

A selection of creative projects from photography, painting, software and other mediums.

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Projects

My current projects both personal and professional.