Steve Simkins

It was a regular Thursday at work.

This past week my family and I visited the Oregon coast, spending time with our friends who live in the area.

Earlier this year we made a plan to visit our friends in Portland, Oregon and do a camping trip at Crater Lake National Park.

Something I discovered several years ago, that I'm now realizing may not be popular knowledge, is that iOS shortcuts has the ability to make API calls.

I read a blog post recently saying that it was ok to hate AI.

This post is about a little app called Feeds, how it has evolved and fills all my RSS needs.

For the longest time I've had a weird obsession with stationery.

Earlier this week I quietly released an iOS app called scout, a Gemini protocol client.

For the past month or two I've been experimenting with building personal, self hosted software in Rust.

import Diagram from "@/components/blog/Diagram.astro" For decades the internet has been a place to make your voice heard, and the cornerstone for most of that time has been blogs.

One of my more popular blog posts was how and why I switched to Zed from Neovim.

If you read my last post then you have a pretty good idea how conflicted I feel about AI and how I'm trying to find balance within programming.

Build a B2B SaaS, make no mistakes Great meme, but in reality that's how most of our time "programming" has gone.

Today I'm excited to release a new tool for the AT Protocol: Sequoia.

If you've been on the internet for the last 10-20 years then you probably have a good sense of how bad the internet has become.

In my last post I discussed how I was moving my micro blogging practice to my personal website.

Last year after reading a post by Herman I realized I didn't need social media; I could just be blogging.

I just finished reading A website to destroy all websites (if you haven't already you really should), and I'm inspired to put a breath of fresh air into this website which I call home.

Last weekend I was building a mini RSS reader (you know how I do), and in the process I was going through some of the blog posts in my feed.

Most of us take RSS for granted.

There has been quite a bit of controversy surrounding DHH's Omarchy.

One of my favorite videos I watched recently was by Pewdiepie, and while the title is "help, Im going through a midlife crisis...", you realize about 3/4 of the way through that it was just bait.

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Recently a local news station in Maine reported a story of some middle schoolers calling their friends with landline telephones.

One of the most common problems encountered when building decentralized applications is the disconnect between the smart contract and the client.

Even if you haven't read the book or seen the movie, you are likely familiar with the famous yet humorous answer to the meaning of life: 42.

I think most developers out there would agree that we're in a bit of an AI hype bubble, yet one piece of AI tech that has recently hit the market which developers can't stop talking about might be different.

I'm sure many who read this are familiar by now with the term "vibe coding," a euphoric style of programming where you prompt AI models or IDEs to write software and just "vibe."

The chances are that if you are a modern developer or if you're starting out, you probably don't know what jq is, and that's why I'm writing this post.

When I was first getting started in web development I remember seeing someone's website and was immediately impressed by one thing: a guestbook.

I think every developer has their own text editor journey and how they landed on the tool they use today.

In a previous blog post I talked about why I learned Vim, and how it boosted my speed and productivity.

Something I see pretty consistently when the topic of Vim/Neovim comes up is the inevitable question "Why?"

It was a Thursday afternoon at the chiropractor.

It Started with Clickbait It was late September in 2020, our first son was just born and I was waiting in the car while my wife took him to the hospital for a checkup (becuase of the Covid-19 restrictions at the time only one of us could go in).