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Sprout Words has a new look in the App Store (new name, new screenshots with captions so it's clearer what it actually does). It's now on iPhone, iPad, and Fire tablets, and it still works offline without an account. sprout-words.com

Clocks go back tonight. If your smoke alarms take regular batteries, this is the weekend to change them. If there's no battery door, it's a sealed 10-year alarm and you get the weekend off. consumablecalculators.com/ca…

I keep making small apps for problems in my own house, so I finally put them in one place. A capture inbox, a reading app for my kids, and calculators for when to replace your furnace filter. It's an odd mix, I know. It's gonna grow too. tiny-tools.net

Many of the new things I build start from the same small, growing library of templates: a Phoenix API, a TypeScript edge service, and a React app shell. They're open source if they're useful to you, hit me up and i'll send you a link if that's interesting to you.

Found out why Google was ignoring most of a site I built. Every page told Google its real address was a URL that redirected somewhere else. One missing slash... for EIGHT months. I'd love to say I found it quickly.

If you believe that people are trans specifically so they can go assault people in bathrooms, that means you also believe that there are people who WANT to assault people in bathrooms but DON'T because the door says they're not allowed in there.

PSA from someone who just moved: go look at your dryer vent. The one in this house was packed. I don't know how long it had been like that, and I'd kind of rather not think about it.

The stuff I forget is never the big project. It's the "sure, I'll send that over" I said in a meeting on Tuesday. I'm building Tiny Inbox so those have one place to land before I lose them. Capture now, sort it out later. Still plenty to improve. tinyinbox.app

Most of what makes me better at working with coding agents would also make me better at leading a team of very junior engineers. Clearer instructions and smaller tasks. Turns out the job was project management all along.

Sprout Words made it through App Review! The word practice app I made for my kids is now on iPhone and iPad too. Hear a word, find it, spell it. Works offline, with no ads or subscriptions. apps.apple.com/us/app/sprout…

Furnace season. ENERGY STAR says to check your filter every month and change it at least every 3 months. If you have pets, it's probably sooner than you think. I made a calculator for how much sooner: consumablecalculators.com/ca…

I thought one of my side projects was getting 2.9K visitors a month. Turns out about 50 of them were people. The rest were bots looking for a WordPress login on a site that has never had WordPress. I wrote it up: duckintheloop.dev/my-29k-vis…

Getting the kids to sit down for flashcards was not happening, so I made the flashcards into an app. Sprout Words is now on the Amazon Appstore for Fire tablets. Offline sight-word and spelling practice, no ads, no accounts. (coming soon for iOS) sprout-words.com

Lol wonderful

It's Fire Prevention Week. Go look at the date on the back of your smoke alarms. If it says 2016 or older, the whole alarm is due, not just the battery. consumablecalculators.com/ca…

Can't see the forest for the treason

So I built a thing. consumablecalculators.com tells you how often to replace stuff like furnace filters, razor blades, toothbrush heads, and smoke alarm batteries, based on your house and how you use it. 16 calculators so far, all sourced, all free.

I made a sight-word app because I’m a nerd and apparently flashcards were too straightforward. A few weeks of hyperfixation later: Sprout Words is live 🌱 Offline word practice for Fire tablets. Pay once, no ads or accounts. sprout-words.com/

sometimes it feels like rotten tomatoes is just one person deciding whether or not they like a movie and all of the ratings and stuff are just made up. it's not aggregated from anywhere. it's just one nerd being like "nah i didn't like hook, 37%"