Rinku, a to-do app for links that writes Markdown files
I'm fairly certain that most software should be open source. Over several decades I've developed the habit of starting projects that I strongly desire to be around for many years only to…
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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.
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…
Reducing my personal hosting complexity
Have you ever put off a task because you felt like it would take you far too long so you just procrastinate and simply never get it done? I do this all…
Static first
In the early days of the modern web – say, the mid-1990s through the mid-00s – my personal website was served statically. It was built with plain HTML (CSS didn’t exist at…
Stupid featured in Webcurios 24/06/22
Matt @ Webcurios, describing my game Stupid: Sent to me by Curios reader Colin Devroe, who also created it, this is a nice twist on the Wordle format (I promised I wouldn’t…
Introducing the YouTube Channel RSS feed Bookmarklet
In 2020, Thomas Brand wrote a blog post about finding a YouTube's channel RSS feed by appending the channel's "Channel ID" onto a feed URL. In 2020 I am watching less stupid…
Julia Evans on tiny personal programs
Julia Evans: So here are a few examples of small personal programming projects I’ve done. I’m not going to talk about “learning projects” where my goal was to learn something specific because…
Top 3 reasons to transfer Stripe subscriptions from one account to another
After transferring tens of thousands of subscriptions in my side gig, Good Migrations – which is a service that helps individuals and businesses transfer their Stripe subscriptions from one Stripe account to…
Introducing Good Migrations (formerly StripeTransfer.com)
Update December 2025: Eliza and I have now helped hundreds of companies migrate their Stripe accounts. We've got a new name for this service called Good Migrations. Over the last few years…
Introducing the Micro.blog Posting Bookmarklet
Recently there was a discussion on Micro.blog about having a bookmarklet that made it simple to post a link to a page you were viewing. And while there are solutions and workarounds,…
Introducing HTML Family Tree
Today I'm introducing a new project on my Projects page; HTML Family Tree – A simple page to show and navigate a family tree. I spent a lot of time this winter…
Mark Jardine on making simple things
Mark Jardine: I’ve noticed that when I successfully create something simple, I want to make more things as opposed to failing at something complicated. Since January I've been spending little bits of…
A few quick notes about building Micro.blog themes
It took me just a few days to convert the Cypress WordPress theme for use on Micro.blog. Since the layout, design, and styling for most elements was already done – the main…
Cypress is now available for free on Micro.blog
If you're a member of Micro.blog you can now choose to use Cypress as your theme for free. Log in and click on your Design settings page, and choose the theme. That's…
Cypress – A premium portfolio theme for WordPress is now available
Cypress on WordPress Cypress is a simple way to create an online portfolio using the world's leading website builder WordPress. Artists from all mediums; painters, photographers, designers, sculptures – all need a…
Using Docker to build a WordPress theme
If you have no idea what Docker is or how it works, this blog post won't help you too much. For that, I recommend Julia Evans' Zine How Containers Work! I recently…
I’m releasing some code projects
When I first started hacking away at a computer (sometime just after the first Jurassic Park film was released in theaters), and ultimately hacking away on the web, people would release small…