Giles Turnbull on Signboard
Giles Turnbull: Colin Devroe released Signboard, a lovely little local kanban board app for your Mac. Each board is just a folder, and each card is just a text file, and when…
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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…
In addition to Signboard 1.0.0 launching today, an all-new version of Stupid – my free daily word game – just launched as well. The UI changes based on your weather. Enjoy!
John O’Nolan on the changing landscape of software
John O'Nolan, founder of Ghost: Open source was built upon the idea that anyone should be able to study, modify, replicate and share software. Free from the grasp of corporations and copyrights…
Gus Mueller on agentic coding
Gus Mueller, in response to the aforelinked Knauss post: […] what is going to make Acorn stand out? I’m starting to think that’s going to be personality and feel and polish, but…
Greg Knauss on the emotional toll of agentic coding
Greg Knauss: Is the code any good? I don’t know. Who cares? Nobody looks at it anyway. AI produces a result, and results are what matter, and if you’re waiting for quality…
Nikunj Kothari on “Token Anxiety”
Nikunj Kothari on the anxiety created by agentic workflows: The anxiety is rational, which is why it sticks. Every week some new benchmark drops that makes last month’s workflow feel prehistoric. Codex…
Where Now? app makes private location history useful
Scott Boms, creator of the new Where Now? app on iOS, writing about making the app back in January: To my surprise, it didn’t take long to get an initial implementation of…
Marcin Wichary on Flickr’s beautiful URLs
Marcin Wichary, writing about Flickr's beautiful URL scheme: It was a beautiful and predictable scheme. Once you knew how it worked, you could guess other URLs. The del.icio.us and Flickr APIs and…
Selling software will still be the hard part
While reading Craig Mod's post recalling the seventh year of his Special Projects membership (all of his yearly updates are worth reading and gleaning from) I noticed a link to Roden 102….
Hedley Wright on the Frames app
Hedley Wright provides a short tutorial on using the Frames app to add EXIF data to your scanned film photos for importing into apps like Adobe Lightroom: For many film photographers, this…
A Fence by Jasper Tandy
Jasper Tandy shares A Fence: There's no reason to take this, or to share it. […] I'm always drawn to piles of things. I don't know why. I've driven past this fence…
SpaceX buys xAI
I knew this was coming and I am still unable to fully process it. The scale of what is going on right now is too much to hold in my gelatinous human…
Darice de Cuba on travel
Darice de Cuba: It’s perfectly ok to go to another country/city and just take it easy and enjoy oneself. I completely agree with Darice's take on traveling. Go somewhere, get comfy, and…
More friction, less reach
What should I post here? What should I post there? I'm struggling to find a balance that I like. My deepest self says post everything here, right on my own personal website….
Maggie Appleton on the state of AI Agents
Maggie Appleton, in a post titled simply January 2026: You might suggest that I spend less time on X, but I’m not inclined to look away just as the train gets up…
Chris Glass: “Alright, that’s enough of that”
Chris Glass, on his cat blog: I’ve turned off comments and other minor features to improve site performance here because I think AI bots are hogging things. The scourge of internet traffic…
Diversions #10: Kona’s first snow
Pretty rich that I am extolling the virtues of boredom while at the same time reviving a recently discontinued series of posts on my site called, of all things, Diversions. But hear…
My 2026 goal is to be bored more often
What do you do with your time? I think the modern world has afforded us all more time than we know what to do with and we're squandering it. I know this…
Taranis: “LLMs are a failure”
Anon Taranis writes that LLMs are, in large part, a failure and that all AI companies have hit a wall that they'll never surmount. I believe it is always good to read…
Whither Latent Co.?
Naz Hamid, writing on his personal blog, about forming a small company called Latent Co.: Driven by the creative tooling we’ve cut our teeth on and drawing on our product and imaging…
Elizabeth Spiers on blogging
Elizabeth Spiers, writing on her own blog again finally, about how blogging is better than social media platforms because it is harder to pick a fight. I'm generalizing off course, go read…
Andre Franca on the small web
Andre Franca: The small web persists not because it's winning any battle against platform dominance, but because some things are worth doing regardless of scale. These independent voices, scattered across their own…
Manuel Moreale: “the web is alive”
Manuel Moreale, encouraging us all to follow all the links in his seminal series People & Blogs… This series lives on my blog but has nothing to do with me. It exists…
Simon Willison on creating new programming languages with AI
Simon Willison comments on creating new programming languages with AI: My hunch is that existing LLMs make it easier to build a new programming language in a way that captures new developers….
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…
Unmark 2025.2, the removal of the free tier, and a price increase
Update (October 2026): Unmark’s hosted service no longer accepts new sign-ups. For my current bookmarking app, see Rinku, its free, open source, local-first successor. Over the past few months of weekends, I…
Merlin Rebrović on personal websites
Merlin Rebrović on personal websites being like tending a garden: Sometimes I put in more time and effort, sometimes I neglect it for a bit, depending on the season and other pressures…
Signboard – A kanban app that writes Markdown files
Update March 2026: Signboard 1.0 is available now! I've wanted this for a long time – a kanban style productivity desktop app that writes Markdown files to disk. And that is what…
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…