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Just released Signboard 1.0.1. I spent the first week since release focusing only on reliability and security. It is pretty solid, I love it. You can use the “Check for updates" feature to get the latest.

I also wrote a blog post about the release: https://cdevroe.com/2026/03/20/signboard-released/

So fun!

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 and I'm so

Colin Devroe

Josh Hrach 4d ago

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Cassandra is only carbon now 5d ago

@glyph made the point that the Neo is an implicit promise from Apple that macOS will run just fine on 8 GB of memory for the next 8 years.

But I think it goes farther than that: Apple made a reference device for application developers. They've never been shy about enforcing requirements on developers, and this is an interesting positive side to that: developers now have a huge incentive to make applications that fit within modest memory limits.

Human Brain Enthusiast 6d ago

During the outsourcing and offshoring craze a decade or two ago everyone hired cheap developers in India and eventually companies realized that that doesn’t work.

Now they’re trying the same with outsourcing to LLMs.

The bottleneck in software development isn’t coding.

It’s management and design.

Josh Hrach Mar 13

Steve Troughton-Smith Mar 13

Reviews keep saying the MacBook Neo puts other laptops 'in its price range' to shame, but it very clearly puts PC laptops four times its price to shame. And that's before accounting for the RAMpocalypse which is going to clip the PC market's wings this year. There's a potential future where Apple becomes the largest consumer PC manufacturer by market share, effectively overnight, depending on how this plays out. A perfectly-timed kill shot for an industry in turmoil

Josh Hrach Mar 13

RE: https://mastodon.social/@cdevroe/116221709297132316

Colin makes good software. Check this one out.

Josh Hrach Mar 13

Colin Devroe Mar 13

Six months ago I started whittling away at Signboard, a kanban app that writes local Markdown files. It is private, fast, and open source. It runs on macOS, Linux, and Windows and includes calendar and “this week” views, tasks, an MCP and CLI, notifications, custom color themes and more.

Today it hit 1.0. It is free for personal use (though, tips appreciated). Check it out: https://cdevroe.com/signboard/

Signboard - A kanban app that writes local Markdown files

Calendar, This Week, and kanban views. MCP, CLI, Notifications, Color themes, Due dates, Tasks, and more.

Colin Devroe

Josh Hrach Mar 7

I don't know why, but SwiftUI seems to lose animation for basic things like fetches with a @\FetchRequest. The List should animate changes to the fetched records but doesn't. Do we really have to wrap everything with `withAnimation`?

Josh Hrach Mar 6

Why I haven't put more of my app functionality into Packages before is beyond me, but I'm starting to get on board with that. #Swift

Josh Hrach Mar 4

DoMarks turned 5 at the beginning of this month, and I released DoMarks 3.0. To celebrate both, lifetime unlocks in the app are on sale until March 7th. If you've been wanting to get it but have held off, now's your chance to do it!

#indiedev #iosdev

@DoMarks

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