Reducing my personal hosting complexity

Have you ever put off a task because you felt like it would take you far too long so you just procrastinate and simply never get it done? I do this all the time. And, for the most part, when I do finally get around to getting the task completed I find out that my […] | Continue reading


@cdevroe.com | 1 year ago

Static first

In the early days of the modern web – say, the mid-1990s through the mid-00s – my personal website was served statically. It was built with plain HTML (CSS didn’t exist at the time) that I copied and pasted when I needed to create a new entry (the word blog didn’t exist then eith … | Continue reading


@cdevroe.com | 1 year ago

Stripe Transfer continues to grow slowly. The latter half of this year I hope to grow it a bit more. As a start I’ve turned on Google Adwords and also wrote a post about migrations subscriptions from Chargebee to Stripe over on Medium. | Continue reading


@cdevroe.com | 1 year ago

For the first year we’ll be in a phase with visionOS where designers will be updating their interfaces to be translucent, dynamic rounded rects. Personally, I am looking forward to when they break out of the windowed world we’ve all been living in for the last few decades and fin … | Continue reading


@cdevroe.com | 1 year ago

Apple Vision Pro is exactly what I hoped for

I am very happy. For many years I've wanted a computing experience that resembles precisely what Apple announced at WWDC just a few short weeks ago. In 2019 I wrote "I want any size screen, any time, any where." As poorly written as that sentence may be, I think Apple is attempti … | Continue reading


@cdevroe.com | 1 year ago

Apple Vision Pro is exactly what I hoped for

I am very happy. For many years I’ve wanted a computing experience that resembles precisely what Apple announced at WWDC just a few short weeks ago. In 2019 I wrote “I want any size screen, any time, any where.” As poorly written as that sentence may be, I think Apple is attempti … | Continue reading


@cdevroe.com | 1 year ago

Will Apple's headset enhance productivity?

I’ve written several times about mixed reality experiences over the last 6 or 7 years here on my blog. I recently went back and looked at some of those posts and so I thought I’d sum up my thinking as it stands today, as well as detail what I hope to see from Apple’s headset. For … | Continue reading


@cdevroe.com | 1 year ago

Will Apple’s headset enhance productivity?

I’ve written several times about mixed reality experiences over the last 6 or 7 years here on my blog. I recently went back and looked at some of those posts and so I thought I’d sum up my thinking as it stands today, as well as detail what I hope to see from Apple’s headset. […] | Continue reading


@cdevroe.com | 1 year ago

Making Tuff improvements

My approach to building Tuff, my static site generator that I began working on last November, was to jump in as quickly as possible by publishing my personal website publicly very early in the development process. Doing so forced me to make rapid improvements and to focus on the … | Continue reading


@cdevroe.com | 1 year ago

Making Tuff improvements

My approach to building Tuff, my static site generator that I began working on last November, was to jump in as quickly as possible by publishing my personal website publicly very early in the development process. Doing so forced me to make rapid improvements and to focus on the … | Continue reading


@cdevroe.com | 1 year ago

Humane Leap of faith

John Gruber on Humane's recent demo at TED: "So far, it feels like Humane’s entire premise is founded on that same mistake: building a new device intended to replace our phones, without that new device being able to do any of the dozens of things we love to do on our phones that … | Continue reading


@cdevroe.com | 1 year ago

Humane Leap of faith

John Gruber on Humane’s recent demo at TED: “So far, it feels like Humane’s entire premise is founded on that same mistake: building a new device intended to replace our phones, without that new device being able to do any of the dozens of things we love to do on our phones that … | Continue reading


@cdevroe.com | 1 year ago

How I'm using ChatGPT as an accelerator

Over the last few weeks I’ve begun using the recent crop of AI-powered services in my daily work and I’ve found them to be an enormous boost to my productivity and fun to play with. I do not know if these human-like chat services will end up causing great harm to the earth’s popu … | Continue reading


@cdevroe.com | 1 year ago

How I’m using ChatGPT as an accelerator

Over the last few weeks I’ve begun using the recent crop of AI-powered services in my daily work and I’ve found them to be an enormous boost to my productivity and fun to play with. I do not know if these human-like chat services will end up causing great harm to the earth’s popu … | Continue reading


@cdevroe.com | 1 year ago

Over the weekend I finished Looking At Photographs: 100 Pictures from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art by John Szarkowski. Szarkowski is, as of this moment, my favorite photographic writer and curator. | Continue reading


@cdevroe.com | 1 year ago

Over the weekend I finished Looking At Photographs: 100 Pictures from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art by John Szarkowski. Szarkowski is, as of this moment, my favorite photographic writer and curator. | Continue reading


@cdevroe.com | 1 year ago

Using Wavelength to chat with darkroom printers

For the past few days I've been testing out Wavelength - a group messaging app that is currently only available on Apple's platforms. It reminds me a lot of Quill, the former messaging app that was swallowed whole by Twitter just prior to ... you know. Why use Wavelength? It is t … | Continue reading


@cdevroe.com | 1 year ago

Using Wavelength to chat with darkroom printers

For the past few days I’ve been testing out Wavelength – a group messaging app that is currently only available on Apple’s platforms. It reminds me a lot of Quill, the former messaging app that was swallowed whole by Twitter just prior to … you know. Why use Wavelength? It is tai … | Continue reading


@cdevroe.com | 1 year ago

Yesterday I finished reading Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford and Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang. I'd recommend both. Chiang is great. I think I need to read more by him. | Continue reading


@cdevroe.com | 1 year ago

Yesterday I finished reading Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford and Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang. I’d recommend both. Chiang is great. I think I need to read more by him. | Continue reading


@cdevroe.com | 1 year ago

What I saw somewhat recently #100: March 23, 2023

Wind, stirs the dust This is it. The final WIS link list post. This series of posts has spanned 10 years. I'm happy that I published 99 lists of links and that thousands of people have clicked on them to enjoy the interesting, creative, useful, and fun webpages I stumbled upon ov … | Continue reading


@cdevroe.com | 1 year ago

What I saw somewhat recently #100: March 23, 2023

This is it. The final WIS link list post. This series of posts has spanned 10 years. I’m happy that I published 99 lists of links and that thousands of people have clicked on them to enjoy the interesting, creative, useful, and fun webpages I stumbled upon over the last decade. I … | Continue reading


@cdevroe.com | 1 year ago

I deleted my Twitter account today. | Continue reading


@cdevroe.com | 1 year ago

I deleted my Twitter account today. | Continue reading


@cdevroe.com | 1 year ago

Doubling down on Mastodon

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@cdevroe.com | 1 year ago

Doubling down on Mastodon

The ease of Ivory on Mastodon has me sharing a lot more than I had been over the last few years. Ivory is on my phone, tablet, and my laptop. It is very easy to write a post, share an image, boost someone else’s post, link to a good blog post, etc. My homegrown static […] | Continue reading


@cdevroe.com | 1 year ago

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Testing Tuff on macOS Ventura. | Continue reading


@cdevroe.com | 1 year ago

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Will my next Mac be my last Mac?

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@cdevroe.com | 1 year ago

Tuff, my static site builder, can build a simple directory for me to view my entire photo library. It creates views for each year and month and also checks various backups – both local and cloud – to make sure the files are properly backed up. It warns me if a file isn’t backed u … | Continue reading


@cdevroe.com | 1 year ago

Will my next Mac be my last Mac?

Perhaps you’ve had this experience… you walk into a place of business and see the computer and software they use to do their scheduling, billing, and ordering and you notice they are decades old. But, have you seen how productive they are? More often than not they are so fast tha … | Continue reading


@cdevroe.com | 1 year ago

Simon Reynolds on blogging

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@cdevroe.com | 1 year ago

Simon Reynolds on blogging

Simon Reynolds, in December, marking the 20th anniversary of Blissblog: I honestly can’t see that anyone has invented a better format than the blog, at least for what I want to do. Simon’s entire post is dripping with flattering remarks about how enjoyable and rewarding blogging … | Continue reading


@cdevroe.com | 1 year ago

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@cdevroe.com | 1 year ago

I’m refactoring Tuff – my static site builder – to support multiple websites so I’ve been posting more on Mastodon than here the last week or so. That should change now as Tuff is able build 3 very different websites. Lots more to do but I see the light. | Continue reading


@cdevroe.com | 1 year ago

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@cdevroe.com | 1 year ago

Recently finished reading Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow. ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ Copious detail. Fast read if not for the length. Author a bit gushy. | Continue reading


@cdevroe.com | 1 year ago

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@cdevroe.com | 1 year ago

I’ve published a new YouTube video. It is a review of my portrait of The Engineer. | Continue reading


@cdevroe.com | 1 year ago

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@cdevroe.com | 1 year ago

I’m continuing to whittle away at my to do list for Tuff – my static site builder. Every few days I’m able to check off a task. Lots of small improvements add up over time. | Continue reading


@cdevroe.com | 1 year ago

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@cdevroe.com | 1 year ago

I’m putting the finishing touches on a presentation of my portrait The Engineer that I’ll be recording for my YouTube channel. I’m hoping to record better audio without spending too much money. Each presentation I make I want to improve. | Continue reading


@cdevroe.com | 1 year ago

How to help Mastodon

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@cdevroe.com | 1 year ago

How to help Mastodon

There have been several waves of activity on Mastodon since I signed up in 2017. Those waves have increased in frequency and intensity. Admittedly, while I did put in some effort early on, I wasn’t really part of that first wave. I rode in on a much later wave in mid-2022 and hav … | Continue reading


@cdevroe.com | 1 year ago

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What I saw somewhat recently #99: January 19, 2023

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