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, 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…
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…
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…
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. And a few other nice new things.
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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 kanban plugins also.
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
Ubuntu – Signboard and the Signboard CLIWindows 11
Bug fix release coming Friday.
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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.
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!
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.
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, 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: 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 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…
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, 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…
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 these tools have created or exacerbated. Be open minded about these topics and not singularly focused on the mind-blowing results you’re seeing, your own excitement, or the profit you may be able to extract from them. Try to always have a balanced and principled view.
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 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…
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…
Apple should acquire Bitrig before someone else does. Still more work to be done there to make creating apps approachable for “anyone”… but Bitrig is remarkably fast at creating apps for Apple OSes. The more complex parts of the process are still on the Apple-side of things and could/should be streamlined dramatically.
