Building Software to Last Forever

How Bear is going to live a long and healthy life | Continue reading


@herman.bearblog.dev | 1 year ago

The Humble Roundabout

How the traffic circle makes cities better for both cars and pedestrians | Continue reading


@herman.bearblog.dev | 1 year ago

Don’t Kill Your Darlings

The writing process simplified. | Continue reading


@herman.bearblog.dev | 1 year ago

A Better Ranking Algorithm

Thoughts on how to create the perfect ranking algorithm, both practically and theoretically. | Continue reading


@herman.bearblog.dev | 1 year ago

Observations on 6 Years of Journaling

My thoughts and experiences on how writing a daily journal improved my memory and understanding of myself. | Continue reading


@herman.bearblog.dev | 1 year ago

Motorcycles aren't dangerous. Cars are dangerous

An argument for the relative safety of motorcycles in a car-free world. | Continue reading


@herman.bearblog.dev | 1 year ago

I Started Journaling (2019)

It all started with a drink. I was going through a weird, transitionary period in my life, and a decent few things started with a drink.There’s something quite | Continue reading


@herman.bearblog.dev | 1 year ago

Blogs should be clean and load fast

I spend a lot of my time reading content on the internet, mostly text, nothing too fancy.[^1] Sometimes I find a blog that I love. It loads fast. It looks good | Continue reading


@herman.bearblog.dev | 1 year ago

Thinking about Passwords

A breakdown on my project of creating a way to send passwords securely. | Continue reading


@herman.bearblog.dev | 2 years ago

The dragon that ate the sun

The ancients said that it would be a dragon that ate the sun, throwing all the worlds into eternal darkness. | Continue reading


@herman.bearblog.dev | 2 years ago

My product is my garden

I’ve been part of the internet startup scene for a while. There are so many different camps: the bootstrappers, the VC-backed tech-bros, the crypto “investors”, | Continue reading


@herman.bearblog.dev | 3 years ago

Products should be “slick”, not just viable

I hate the term MVP.Over the past decade, it’s been overused and misunderstood to the point where something labeled as an MVP is automatically assumed to be pr | Continue reading


@herman.bearblog.dev | 3 years ago

A MF Blog by Herman

This is a motherfucking blog.And it's fucking perfect.Seriously, what the fuck else do you want?You probably have a fucking Wordpress theme slapped together | Continue reading


@herman.bearblog.dev | 3 years ago

Moonwalking with Einstein – Short Thoughts

It's been a while since I've read a book that covers something as novel as the art and science of being able to remember everything. Moonwalking with Einstein w | Continue reading


@herman.bearblog.dev | 3 years ago

My first year without social media

It has been a year since I left social media. It was difficult to do at the time, and I kept finding excuses and reasons not to. Looking back I realise it was b | Continue reading


@herman.bearblog.dev | 3 years ago

Who killed the air-powered vehicle?

Compressed air is a sustainable alternative to batteries and fossil fuels. Despite this, it has been disappearing from the public eye.I first became interested | Continue reading


@herman.bearblog.dev | 3 years ago

The Hacker News Hug

About a week ago I went through a bit of an existential crisis. My company [JustSketchMe](https://justsketch.me) has been cracking along well for the past 6 months since I quit my job, and had left me with a lot of time to think. After some introspective pondering, wandering arou … | Continue reading


@herman.bearblog.dev | 3 years ago