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💫 Toolkit to help you get started with SDD or any other process!

Measured’s brand image generator

Nobody's asking the harder question: what would a commercial model look like that rewards measurable plumbing and creative risk? That captures the incremental certainty of optimisation and the asymmetric upside of fame?

Coding agent tools can help with most of this, but there is still a substantial burden on the developer driving those tools to ensure that the produced code is good code for the subset of good that's needed for the current project.

Good guide on hacking old Kindles.

DarkSky is back!

But not in the UK yet, it appears.

A simple, open format for guiding coding agents.

The genie is good at exploration. So good in fact, that Atsign engineer Chris Swan wrote “getting from idea to code is cheaper than it’s ever been.” But good ideas are a new constraint. “The set of people who have ideas for apps worth building is not everybody. It might be a larger set than the people currently making apps, but it’s finite, and probably not much larger,” Swan suggests.

A free and open source instant messaging and VoIP chat app built for friends, groups, and communities.

What happens when a large open source project dies.

This is a great software ecosystem/evolution post.

I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure. Here's the stack I landed on, what was harder than expected, and what you still can't avoid.

When the interface is a natural language conversation, years of muscle memory become worthless. The switching cost that justified $25K per seat per year dissolves. For many vertical software companies, the interface was most of the value. The underlying data was licensed, public, or semi-commoditized. What justified premium pricing was the workflow built on top of that data. That's over.

Some truth in this but lacks nuance.

The Generative UI framework

The word “brand” is used so broadly that its meaning has become elusive. Everything from logos and imagery to worldviews, social media popularity, and market capitalization gets labeled as “brand.” However, what constitutes a brand is not appearance or popularity, but the reason people continue to choose it.

Via russelldavies.

All of the people I love hate this stuff, and all the people I hate love it. And yet, likely because of the same personality flaws that drew me to technology in the first place, I am annoyingly excited.

A CLI-based, flat-file issue tracker for humans and robots. 🤖

Setup guide for NextDNS, a DoH proxy with advanced capabilities

Firefox user.js for optimal privacy and security. Your favorite browser, but better.

DNS-Blocklists: For a better internet - keep the internet clean!

React Strict DOM (RSD) standardizes the development of styled React components for web and native.

What does it mean to keep practicing a craft you love when you suspect it's dying?

⚡ A fast Git hook manager written in Rust, designed as a drop-in alternative to pre-commit, reimagined.

💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O.

The lazier way to manage everything docker

A collection of small details that make a big difference.

Via monospaced.

An open-source, self-hostable PaaS alternative to Vercel, Heroku & Netlify that lets you easily deploy static sites, databases, full-stack applications and 360+ one-click services on your own servers.

I were to leave you with one idea, it is to go back to the ideas in How to Measure Anything by Douglas Hubbard. The basic idea there is that you can measure far more than you think, but only if you’re clear about what decision the measurement is meant to support, accept uncertainty instead of chasing false precision, and choose measurement approaches that reduce uncertainty at the lowest possible cost.

Create beautiful applications using Go

A syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, grep, rg --json, and blame output

Show usage stats for OpenAI Codex and Claude Code, without having to login.

git commit --fixup, but automatic

A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor

I shut down my Clawdbot AI agent after an experience that made me question what I was willing to hand over in exchange for autonomy.

These fictions were functional adaptations to real constraints. The job, the credential, the expert, each solved a genuine problem in a high-friction world. But the constraints changed. And now the adaptations are decaying.

Via leebryant.

Employment among “business operations specialists, all other”—a grab-bag combining process design, co-ordination and analysis—has jumped by almost 60%, with solid wage growth to match.

I probably didn't.

Via Popular.

Move and resize windows on macOS with keyboard shortcuts and snap areas

Bug reports and discussion for the Rectangle Pro app

🤖 Just a command runner

unclutter your .profile

Manage your dotfiles across multiple diverse machines, securely.

👻 Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.

✨ Making your shell magical

Opensource IDE For Exploring and Testing API's (lightweight alternative to Postman/Insomnia)