"Why not Patreon?" is the first question anyone has when I talk about https://backers.club (https://10er.com's new international branding) so trying to address it head on on the new landing page

Gothenburg feels like visiting the Jens Lekman cinematic universe

New video! The new video is here! https://youtu.be/OmP6lZsmUw8

20 minute video with a rant and a tour of an email app he says he'll never release? What is he doing

dinky is my tiling window manager for macOS https://youtu.be/5sZ7oDjXGYY

Why doesn't HelpScout have a giant "Copy thread details as Markdown" button?

Luckily, with https://getsprinkles.app and a coding agent we can just add one.

I'll give you free https://nitrokit.dev Pro if you promise to actually build a thing with it and tell me how it goes ––– ?

(Limited offer, I guess)

if rust is so fast maybe it should work o on its own compiler

I am now running home grown…

• launcher (Tuna)
• tiling wm (dinky)
• text snippets (Poof)
• terminal multiplexer (fut)
• email client (Snailblaze)
• one-off code editor (Fst)
• markdown previewer (Spellbook)
• desktop+video recorder (Egomaxxing)
• browser extensions (Sprinkles)

New Tuna website – https://tunaformac.com. Not totally convinced about the tagline but yeah

Too much of my life is done by "winging it." Being underprepared and then building the plane in the air. I'm good at winging it by now.

That's all great. Good skill. But what if I was also good at preparation?

What are your coping strats for controlling your (lack of) focus?

Maybe we're just confusing "reviewing" code to mean "reading" code.

I'm not reading much of it now. Sometimes I read some of it. If it helps me review it. But I am reviewing all changes still.

What if GitHub sponsors but the money goes to pay for the user’s AI subs

Throwing my own hacks on top of the (burning) pile –

Here's Dinky. My take on a tiling wm for macOS.

Is it better? Worse? It's just as bad as the other ones but it's mine.

Mom, can we have hyprland? No honey, we have hyprland at home. Hyprland at home: https://dinky.rodeo

Tomorrow's my last day at Holepunch/Tether. It's been a blast learning about all the intricacies of peer-to-peer development and working with some wonderful people there. If you haven't, try https://keet.io today!

It was time for me to try something else. Will say more soon.

The ONE THING that beats homemade butter chicken is left-over homemade butter chicken

Today's agentic realization is "I should have all my servers and buckets and shit in some declarative ops setup."

What's the most agent-friendly, low ceremony project of this sort? Terraform?

I will only share the good stuff but I will share the good stuff

(Note: This is a post I wrote a while ago and had forgotten everything about.)

Notes apps are the perfect subjects for endless fidgeting. I have a problem with notes apps.

No app is perfect, and since the key functionality is so seemingly small in scope, they always feel like they are almost there. So close!

I'm as guilty as anyone for blaming my lack of output on software. Right now I'm cmd+tabbing between iA Writer, nvAlt, vim and Notion, frustratedly unable to make a decision on where to put notes.

I don't even write that many notes. I barely ever read them.

Notes is a deceivingly simple term for something actually complex.

Some are for safe keeping. Important information. Structured, curated, nurtured.

Some are just for quickly jotting down an idea so you won't forget it. My past in stand-up comedy has taught me that however much you think you'll remember this one, you won't. And even then you can still troll yourself by not capturing enough, leaving you with half a sentence and the feeling that you just lost the greatest idea of all time to your lazy thumbs.

I have this habit where, every time I start thinking something is wrong with software, I step one step back from the feeling and ponder what it really is instead that's wrong with me.

Notes apps are great. 80% good is more than good enough.

My problem with notes apps is, really, that I'm frustrated that I don't write more often.

Terminals are too low fidelity, they say, so the web is a better platform for developer tools. I get the argument. But why then do I still prefer terminals for 80% of the work?

I think it's the constraints:

Terminals...

• have very limited space. You have to be diligent in showing just the essential info.

• are limited to (more or less) one-size plain monospaced text with a small color palette. Same benefit as above. No surprises.

• are keyboard-driven first. Modern terms and tools support mouse as well but usually as a bonus, not a requirement.

• are usually highly configurable and personalized. I pick the font, the colors, configure the tools, configure the hotkeys, etc.

• are power tools the same way a chainsaw is a power tool. Use it correctly, you can cut down any tree. Use it incorrectly, you can cut down your legs.

• are close to the ground. All the benefits of the "Unix philosophy" ring true still. Small, composable tools that do one thing and one thing well can pipe into and from each other, write to files, read from them, install packages, so on. Most tools weight stability over usability – but for an agent that has bash in its core training, that IS usability.