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cdevroe

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My name is Colin Devroe, my site is http://cdevroe.com/

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cdevroe.com 1mo ago

Signboard 1.5 adds Obsidian integration

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cdevroe.com 3mo ago

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

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chrisglass.com 1y ago

macOS with VisionOS Gesture Controls

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blog.twitter.com 3y ago

Twitter Circle Out of Beta

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stupidwordgame.com 4y ago

Show HN: Stupid – A simple daily word scramble

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Twitch to discontinue desktop app April 30, 2022

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www.dungleon.com 4y ago

Dungleon – A Dungeon Wordle Clone

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Great Blogs by Programmers

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cdevroe.com 4y ago

Mastodon's Lead Developer Rails Against Twitter's Bluesky

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unmark.it 6y ago

Show HN: Unmark 2.0

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www.manton.org 6y ago

Twitter to decentralize something

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www.kickstarter.com 7y ago

Bokeh: Private, independent, and user-funded photo sharing

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www.darice.org 7y ago

Inclusive Design is about more than code

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cdevroe.com 8y ago

Please don’t try to explain Bitcoin at parties

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cdevroe.com 9y ago

What are your four hobbies?

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twitter.com 11y ago

Virgin Media Storing Plaintext Passwords?

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Paid Vacations for Freelance Designers and Developers

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mattdsmith.com 12y ago

Let's Not Kill the Hamburger Icon Just Yet

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blog.dropbox.com 12y ago

Dropbox at SXSW

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chrome.google.com 12y ago

Unmark Chrome Extension

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unmark.it 12y ago

Show HN: Unmark - An open source to do app for bookmarks.

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joshworth.com 12y ago

If The Moon Was Only 1 Pixel

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getbarley.com 12y ago

Write posts without ever seeing the WordPress Admin

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plainmade.com 12y ago

Show HN: We're building an open source bookmarking service in public

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colin.getbarley.com 12y ago

A case for something, anything more simple than WordPress

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editorially.com 12y ago

Editorially - a simple web-based collaborative Markdown editor, now open

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getbarley.com 12y ago

Show HN: Barley - A web content editor for developers, now public.

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colin.getbarley.com 13y ago

Focus on building your company as much as you do on your product

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techcrunch.com 13y ago

Barley Aims To Be The Absolute Simplest Way To Create And Edit Websites

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getbarley.com 13y ago

Show HN: Just starting... a new CMS called Barley

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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!

Twitter Is Down 4 years ago

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!

Twitter Is Down 4 years ago

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

Twitter Is Down 4 years ago

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!

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.

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.

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.

Mozilla Hubs 4 years ago

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.

Mozilla Hubs 4 years ago

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.

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.