Notes – Colin Devroe

Jun 2, 2026
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Back from a whirlwind and productive trip to Santa Monica, CA. Time to build.

May 23, 2026
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I'm trying to record a demo video of all of Signboard's features, including those that will ship in version 1.5 (coming soon), and I'm just failing miserably. I'll do it another day. So many great features in this app.

May 21, 2026
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Unlocked.

May 13, 2026
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A wee bug fix release of Signboard 1.4.1 was just released. I am looking forward to writing and sharing more about this app, and how I and others are using it, very soon. My productivity is through the roof.

May 9, 2026
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Signboard 1.4.0 just shipped and it includes a new Planner workspace that contains the date-based views of Calendar, This Week, and new Day and Agenda views. This allows you to get a bird's eye view of all of your open Boards (or, drill down…

May 5, 2026
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Bulldozer (best name worst name?), my very simple but rickety PHP script I've used for years to help me move images into yyyy/mm/dd directories based on their creation date, was just updated significantly to be much more reliable and also work very well with…

May 5, 2026
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Big spike of traffic to my post about making a goal to get bored more often. Boredom is more important than ever.

May 4, 2026
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Nice touch by JSM to include RSS links in BTW № 5.

May 4, 2026
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I met this Ruffed Grouse friend while riding my quad about a month ago.

Apr 30, 2026
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Highly recommend Fat Gold co-owned by Robin Sloan. Delicious. And the wee guide that comes along with some products is 👌 A few tins of Fat Gold with the "How to use it up" guide

Apr 27, 2026
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Last week was a big week for agents. I wrote about the agentweb on Tuesday. To compete with Anthropic's managed agents service (which I've used a fair amount at this point and it is quite good) OpenAI released Workspace agents to a few customer…

Mar 31, 2026
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Hubbub Pro 2.29.1 (bug fixes) out the door.

Mar 26, 2026
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Small detail in Signboard… as you drag a card it begins to slightly tilt in the direction that you're dragging. Makes me happy. Signboard 1.1.0 is coming tomorrow and it will include curated color themes (so aesthetic) and importing from both Trello and Obsidian….

Mar 24, 2026
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Signboard has had a hidden secret from the beginning, you can import data from Trello. Starting in 1.1.0, which will ship this Friday, that feature will no longer be hidden. Oh, and you'll also be able to import from Obsidian and its leading community…

Mar 17, 2026
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Signboard running on Ubuntu and Windows 11. Ubuntu – Signboard and the Signboard CLI Windows 11 Bug fix release coming Friday.

Mar 17, 2026
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We released Hubbub Pro 2.29.0 today. We acquired this WordPress plugin just over 2 years ago and we've added tons of features and improvements that are helping publishers grow their websites, their mailing lists, and ultimately their revenue. Still so much more to do.

Mar 16, 2026
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Back in February I bought a four-wheeler and I've been having a lot of fun putting in some miles, adding accessories, and being outdoors. It is a 2026 Polaris Sportsman. A great way to end winter. It affords me to get to locations to…

Mar 13, 2026
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Signboard 1.0.0 is available now. Free for personal use. One-time payment if you use it commercially. I hope people like it. I'll write more about it soon.

Feb 17, 2026
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If you are excited about and enjoy using LLMs, please take time to read contrarian views. Seek out those that have solid reasons for avoiding their use and listen to them. Read the data about the privacy, rights, energy, and natural resource issues that…

Feb 2, 2026
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Apple should acquire Bitrig before someone else does. Still more work to be done there to make creating apps approachable for "anyone”… but Bitrig is remarkably fast at creating apps for Apple OSes. The more complex parts of the process are still on the…

Jan 30, 2026
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TIL The Bandcamp iOS app runs fairly OK on macOS.

Jan 28, 2026
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TIL You can set Finder to auto-size columns. I turned this on immediately. /via DF.

Jan 21, 2026
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Nearly a dozen of the NerdPress team recently enjoyed a beautiful week in downtown Los Angeles sponsoring Tastemaker Conference. We met with old and new customers, enjoyed good food, pet some puppies, gazed upon the cosmos at Griffith Observatory, took a tour of LA's…

Dec 30, 2025
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I'm happy to see the younger generation of programmers joining us older folks in experiencing imposter syndrome and constantly feeling of being behind. It persists. It never goes away. You're likely doing fine, and likely not behind. If you don't feel these feelings you…

Dec 24, 2025
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Clear your calendar, pour a favorite beverage, and immerse yourself into the year in music with reports from Simon Collison and Jon Hicks. Fantastic every year.

Dec 18, 2025
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Comments from Mozilla's new CEO have brought up the topic of ad blocking. With some going so far as to switch their browser. In 2023 I wrote about why I do not block ads but I do block ad tracking as best as I…

Dec 17, 2025
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Every now and then YouTube will suggest a film photography related video from years and years ago. I'll watch it and think, hey, YouTube, why didn't you suggest this sooner?

Dec 1, 2025
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I don't know if I can directly tie this to uninstalling social network apps from my phone… but I can say that I had a thoroughly enjoyable and productive offline weekend.

Nov 25, 2025
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I've uninstalled all social network apps from my phone; including Ivory for Mastodon. I'm really trying to force myself into boredom. To allow my mind to wander. And force-feeding myself information (even good, high quality information) is stifling my mind's ability to wander.

Nov 11, 2025
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A quick business trip to Boston with the NerdPress team. We shared some excellent meals (particularly at Sarma). I had very little free time but I did manage to saunter over to the Leica store (just before the gallery exhibition of the work of…

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