updown.io (affiliate link) is a great example of a near perfect web service. Simple to use. Clear and easy pricing — pay only for what you use. Fast and easy to setup. I started monitoring POAP2RSS with it tonight and was just reminded how great it is. See POAP2RSS Status. 👏👏👏
Software Development
Working with Claude Code to get the deployment working for what I created yesterday. In many ways the deployment to AWS is much harder than creating the thing!
First time for me — submitted a pull request to a public repo to make a small change that I’m hoping gets merged for rssrssrssrss. 😊
Vibe Coding POAP2RSS
Ever since I created my first POAP drop I’ve wished that I could see claims of POAPs in Feedbin. What a great way to keep informed of the tokens that people are claiming! As I created more POAPs I realized that I also would like to subscribe to other people and see what POAP …
Keep reading · 16 minutes: Vibe Coding POAP2RSSWorked with OpenAI Codex this morning and redesigned the website for POAP2RSS. It gave a clean structure as requested that I could fill in and make better.
I’ve created my first project using AI to write nearly all of the code with me!
Introducing POAP2RSS!
For years I’ve wanted to get updates for POAP events and users in RSS. Now with the help of AI I’ve created it!
Still cleaning to do. Check out the code on Github.
How to Newsletter: Lessons from 300 Issues of the Weekly Thing
This is an article version of the presentation I gave at Minnebar 19 on How to Newsletter. To create this I used Whisper Memos on my iPhone to capture the transcription. I did some general editing to remove some preamble and ad hoc dialog, did a read through to correct any …
Keep reading · 10 minutes: How to Newsletter: Lessons from 300 Issues of the Weekly ThingI had Siri read me a long email while walking and it was like stepping back to olden times. The TTS was lacking, not recognizing acronyms and with poor inflection. And I couldn’t even just ask “read this”, that failed. Instead I had to manually select the text and then press “Speak”. 😬
I’ve been enjoying the Snow Fall plug-in by @manton on my website and it has me thinking that it would be really fun to have a web version of Simon Støvring’s Festivitas. A string of lights along the top of the browser with various configuration options would be cool.
I created a hierarchal view of my blog pages so that I could try to organize this better. This shows why I wish the Pages section of micro.blog was a bit more sophisticated. I took the outline and then gave it to ChatGPT and asked it to recommend a better way to structure it.
