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cdevroeon My 2026 goal is to be bored more often

Hello, author here. Thanks for sharing. Enjoy your boredom!

cdevroeon Show HN: Signboard – Kanban app lists are folders and cards are Markdown files

Hi HN! I'd really love your feedback on this. I've been using and building Signboard for about 6 months now. I use it every single day and love it for managing my personal and commercial projects.

It has MCP and CLI so using it with Claude or Codex is super fun and easy.

Any questions, please let me know! And please any new ideas send them my way. Thank you!

cdevroeon Kottke.org is 25 years old today

There are more blogs today than ever! And, RSS is alive and well. Come back!

cdevroeon Kottke.org is 25 years old today

Nice 9rules shoutout there. :)

cdevroeon StreetPass: Find Your People on Mastodon

+1 for Safari!

cdevroeon Swift Quit – Automatic App Quitting on Mac

Umm, no.

cdevroeon iPhone 14 Pro camera review: A small step, a huge leap

I think you're right. The point they were trying to make is that there is more separation between the subject and the background. So, in a way, an _improved_ DOF if not a _greater_ or _shallower_ DOF.

Maybe?

cdevroeon Twitter Is Down

Thanks for noting this. I checked the list before posting and after it published I didn't see any others similar. I guess I wasn't quick enough!

cdevroeon Twitter Is Down

OK, good to know. I won't post stories like this any more. I just thought it was noteworthy.

cdevroeon Twitter Is Down

Quick HN question... I posted this as well (prior to this post) and it was "flagged"? I titled mine "Twitter is down hard". Perhaps my titling made it seem like I was trying to be mean or something? As a developer, I was trying to convey that it was very much down across all apps, sites, services. I thought that was the proper parlance but perhaps not.

To any HN admins, sorry! I meant nothing by it!

cdevroeon Indie Microblogging

<3 M.b!

cdevroeon We built a $1M ARR open source SaaS

Great post, congrats!

cdevroeon Launch: History Book App

Instant buy.

cdevroeon Show HN: Stupid – A simple daily word scramble

After playing Wordle for 90 or so days in a row I got the itch to build my own word game. I began with a simple word scramble, added a few family members, and have iterated on the game until the point you see now.

I called it Stupid because I thought it was a stupid word game.

Stupid allows for two backspaces and two guesses. Once you burn your guesses you’re done (even if you haven’t used your backspaces yet). It takes a few days to get it (which is likely due to my poor game design skills).

Speaking of design, the UI features art from artists I like. I’ll be switch up the UI from time-to-time. I’m keeping a history on my website: https://cdevroe.com/portfolio/stupid-april-2021/

I built Stupid by handcoding JavaScript without any use of frameworks. The JavaScript isn’t very good - and I know that - but I’m totally open to critique and feedback. Please do not hold back.

There is no server side component, no tracking, no analytics. My best guess, due to Digital Ocean’s graphs, is that there have been a few thousand players so far. But I cannot say for sure.

If you do play, please play at least a few days in a row. And please give me feedback. I’m eager to improve it.

cdevroeon Markdoc: Stripe's Markdown-based authoring framework

It seems that many Stripe team members walk the HN halls, if you were to give a few examples of the "HUGE gaps" you mentioned they might fill them in.

cdevroeon Markdoc: Stripe's Markdown-based authoring framework

Totally agree. There are other companies, though, that have people staffed for the work and they do not do nearly as good of a job. I shall refrain from naming names. :)

cdevroeon Markdoc: Stripe's Markdown-based authoring framework

I agree. Most companies, open source projects, and individual developers find this to be a Herculean challenge. I'd love to know if Stripe has any secrets to keeping their Docs updated. Though, my gut says that they likely just put in the work. Their Docs are incredibly important to their success.

cdevroeon Markdoc: Stripe's Markdown-based authoring framework

Stripe's Docs have been best-in-class for a long time. Obviously, the care and human hours they put into their upkeep is the main reason for the Docs being so good. But, as with any creative endeavor, the tools matter. If the Stripe team didn't like the content management system they used to keep the Docs up-to-date they'd be less likely to do it. As someone that has used their Docs for hours and hours and hours I'm thankful to their team for how good their Docs are.

Very cool of them to open source this. Looks great.

cdevroeon Ask HN: Share your personal site

btw your site's feed isn't 'discoverable' (but there is a link). Just fyi

cdevroeon Ask HN: Share your personal site

+1 for PS's site. :)

cdevroeon Ask HN: Share your personal site

cool site

cdevroeon Ask HN: Share your personal site

https://cdevroe.com/

20+ years and counting. I have my film photography portfolio there. But I've been blogging (and microblogging) from my own domain forevs.

cdevroeon Mozilla Hubs

As an aside, I think these are great. As a photographer, I'd _love_ to use something like this to show my photos "in a space" virtually with my photos on the wall, etc. I tried to do that in Hubs but I found the UI a bit infuriating. Couldn't figure it out. But I'm hopeful because Mozilla team is great.

cdevroeon Mozilla Hubs

Does not work at all in the Brave browser. Should I be using Brave? I feel like there are no great browser choices these days.

cdevroeon Ask HN: Great Blogs by Programmers

applause

cdevroeon Ask HN: Great Blogs by Programmers

;)

cdevroeon Ask HN: Great Blogs by Programmers

Wow! Ty.

cdevroeon Ask HN: Great Blogs by Programmers

old school

cdevroeon Ask HN: Great Blogs by Programmers

To everyone that submitted their recommendations, Thank you! I'm trying to reply to each submission since so many of these are so good, but I may not get to them all. I'm bookmarking this to refer back to for the next several months. I have already found so many great resources.

cdevroeon Ask HN: Great Blogs by Programmers

This looks good and in-depth. I like it. Thank you.