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Working on Broadcast: https://sendbroadcast.net What it is: Self-hosted email marketing software Been doing so since 2024 (pre AI coding era).

Just read the post and it didn’t sound AI to me. Would be kind of funny if someone from the team came out and said it was written by a human.

My prediction is that the semiconductor price increases is going to cause a lot of demand destruction. The semiconductor companies revenues is not based on new products but rather …

I’ve been working on Broadcast since Sept 2024: https://sendbroadcast.net It’s a self-hosted email marketing/newsletter app. The basic idea is: own your subscriber database, run th…

My wife cited ChatGPT as her primary source the other day when she wanted to debate with me on something. "AI told me that..." In the old days, it would have been "I read on Google…

It was never easy after ~2010.

Also working on App Shot Editor [1], a free iOS/Google App store screenshot generator. Basically my kids were getting into mobile app development, and I wanted an easy way for them…

I'm working on Checkend [1], which is a self hosted error monitoring app. I needed something lightweight and easy to deploy. [1] https://checkend.com

A lot of folks building iOS apps these days (I wonder why). Heck, my kids decided to build some themselves the past couple of weeks. When it came time to submitting to the app stor…

https://sendbroadcast.net - I've been working on it since October 2024, and it's still going strong. Currently on v1, but working on v2 release in the next month.

Having used Opus 4.5 for the past 5 weeks, I estimate it codes better than 95% of the people I've ever worked with. And it writes with more clarity too. The only people who are com…

Working on https://stepsies.com Tagline: Turn your knowledge into interactive guides Had the domain for 2 years, and finally putting it to use.

All my European servers proxied through Cloudflare's CDN are down.

Just when the eastern cities are waking up too.

Better printers came along, were not "open", but they were easier to use and maintain especially for first-time hobbyists and even for print farms.

Friends, we might very well be the last generation of developers who learned how to code.

I have been working on Broadcast ( https://sendbroadcast.net ). It’s an email marketing tool, self-hosted, for use with existing ESPs like Postmark, Mailgun, Amazon SES, etc. Been …

Another way to look at it is that tracking what you eat is very difficult. Currently trying to lose a few pounds and doing calorie tracking. Practically carry a scale and a calorie…

I enjoy using Kamal as well. It's simple enough for small teams to understand quickly and flexible enough to tinker down at the server level.

Built https://sendbroadcast.net for myself and started selling it too. Made about $1500 usd so far over the past 2 months and a bit.