Tag: open source
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Signboard is officially released
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 and I’m so happy that it exists and it is really fun to work on. At each opportunity, I’d add a feature, fix a
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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 to prevent it. In a strange way, I’m beginning to wonder if AI might end up fulfilling that vision more completely than open
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Just released Signboard 0.4.0 that adds due dates to cards and lays the foundation for labels and other card metadata. I’m so happy to have due dates since Signboard is now my daily driver. The next build will be a code refactor and bug fixes from this release.
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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 running on the hosted version. Kyle Ruane and I have been keeping the lights on the hosted version of Unmark
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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 Signboard is. It looks like this. And here is this board represented on disk as directories and files. You can grab a copy
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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 a while. I only looked into the issue very briefly months ago and I wasn’t able to determine the fix.
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Switcheroo 1.2.0 adds new UI and switch tab to profile feature
Switcheroo, the default browser that I use everyday, just had a new release over the weekend thanks to Zhenyi Tan. The 1.2.0 update includes a new profile picker UI (seen below) and a new “switch tab to profile” feature making it easier to move tabs between Safari profiles. Switcheroo’s new profile picker UI. What is
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Switcheroo, the small open source macOS app I use as my default browser to recreate a feature I miss from Little Arc, has reached 1.0.1 and has a new icon! Thanks to Zhenyi Tan for continuing to contribute updates. (See also)
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Switcheroo – An open source Little Arc for Safari
This post details a macOS app that recreates features from Little Arc in Safari. The post and source code were available for members only until April 3rd, 2024 and are now public. One of Arc’s best features is Little Arc — a small Quick Look like window that appears whenever you click a link in
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Introducing the Favorite Toots WordPress Plugin
One of the primary ways I find new accounts to follow on social media is by eavesdropping on other people’s favorites. Many social networks make each account’s favorites public but Mastodon does not (yet?). So I wanted a way to show my favorites publicly so that others can look through them. And I’m hoping others