Mastodawn

I didn’t ask for this and neither did you. I didn’t ask for a robot to consume every blog post and piece of code I ever wrote and parrot it back so that some hack could make money off o…

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Eddie Feb 10

Catching up on my RSS feeds sometimes stresses me out. I'm a stickler for inbox zero, and simultaneously don't like to "mark as read" what hasn't been read 🤷‍♂️

Right now I haven't felt like reading dev stuff lately (which are most of my feeds), and I'm sitting at almost 1k unreads.

Eddie Feb 2

“In hindsight, I underestimated the reputational risk of concentrating so much influence and capital in one structure.”
— what I wish Buffett would say.

Eddie Jan 30

Does anyone know of any active chat apps that support WhatsApp interoperability?
I’m mainly looking to get rid of the Channels and Status sections on my daughter’s phone.

Switching away from WhatsApp isn’t realistic since that’s where her friends are.

Looked at birdy.chat and haiket.com but both in waitinglist stage.

Eddie Dec 18

Built a simple color palette tool inspired by Flexoki and @kepano
https://coloki.vasser.no/

I kept reaching for the Flexoki playground but wanted something simpler.

Coloki – A simple color palette generator

Generate beautiful, perceptually-balanced color palettes from a single base color. Inspired by Flexoki.

Eddie Dec 15

Interesting reads on CMS vs “no CMS”:

Cursor moving away from @sanity_io → leerob.com/agents
Sanity’s response → sanity.io/blog/you-should-never-build-a-cms

IMO CMSs like @getkirby and @statamic are underrated here: content and code in the same codebase, fully grep-able.

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