My appearance on WP Product Talk Episode 0156
I joined Katie Keith and Zach Katz to chat about AI and WordPress on WP Product Talk.
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My appearance on the Leaky Paywall Podcast
Listen or watch Pete and I discuss subscription price increases and AI.
Molly White on the Binance theft
I appreciate her continued coverage of this space.
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…
John Gruber on X
Gruber writes how X is seemingly getting more friendly.
Jeremy Keith on open local large language models
Jeremy Keith: I’d love to see the technology decoupled from the current depressing narrative. I’d love to see a thousand homemade software flowers bloom from open local language models. Me too. At…
Catsup, a grocery list app, by Zhenyi Tan
Zhenyi Tan, writing about the inspiration for Catsup, his grocery list app, on his personal blog: I think a grocery app should be designed differently from a todo list app. Forever ago,…
2025 Impact Report for NerdPress
Miranda Wicker shares NerdPress' 2025 Impact Report as a Certified B-Corporation: What does it mean when a company says it believes business can be a force for good? Especially in the tech…
Aphera – Fast RAW photo editor for the Mac
Aphera: Aphera is the Raw photo editor built natively for Mac, with a from-scratch imaging pipeline and a workflow designed to disappear. Built by Latent Co. (aforelinked) which includes Ryan Carver as…
Josh Ginter on pulling back before getting away
Josh Ginter, in his excellent Sunday Edition from mid-July: We spent five days camping in a one-bar-of-LTE-but-still-won’t-work area last weekend, so this is the first installment of the Sunday Edition in a…
Christoph Rauscher on agency
Christoph Rauscher, in a post about his 6th year running a weeklong workshop called Writing = Design (which sounds lovely): It was so peaceful, this one week of human writing. We developed…
Will the AI sprint end?
Merlin Rebrović: … I’m using AI to design AI-powered tools and I work with some people who are AI-pilled. When I get home, I read and listen to AI maximalists and billionaires’…
Iris Photos 1.0
Tyler Hall: The first version, from November 2020, was called AntiPhoto. The name was a mood. I had tens of thousands of photos and videos scattered across drives and old phone backups,…
Models, models everywhere
Models. Big huge scary models. Small, purpose-built models. Slow models. Fast models. Expensive models. Local models. Models. Models. Models. Which model should you pick for your question, task, or goal? How much…
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…
Terry Godier on the boring internet
Terry Godier: The blogs you read in 2012 redirect to parked domains. The forums where you learned what you know got bought, gutted, redesigned, and left to rot. Terry must be tons…
Tina Collier on why WordPress breaks
WordPress takes a lot of heat. Some of that heat has been thrown by me. It can be frustrating to run a WordPress-powered site, to develop products for it, to ship code…
Andrew Wilder on addressing vulnerabilities for NerdPress clients
Andrew Wilder (our CEO), on the NerdPress blog: From start to finish, this was a coordinated team effort: updates, firewall protections, client communication, and vendor collaboration all happening in parallel. It’s a…
Craig Mod on iPadOS and macOS
Craig Mod: Here is the insane business plan of what I would do, the thoughts of some fool on a hill halfway across the world: No more keyboards or mouse support for…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
John O’Nolan on Ghost’s CLI
John O'Nolan added a new CLI to Ghost called ghst: We've spent 10+ years focusing on having a clean, well designed interface for Ghost. It's something we care a lot about, and…
Jim Neilsen on LLM instructions
Great point from Jim Neilsen re: the instructions found deep inside a model or agent's instructions, which we may not prefer yet live with if we don't know to override them: It’s…
Simone Giertz on success
Simone Giertz in an interview with The Creative Independent: One of the things that’s most important is if I’m really proud of the thing that we’re putting out. That’s always been one…