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My buddy Dion made a great post "English will become the most popular development language in 6 years". Dion's vision is pretty expansive, but it really tickled my brain. I've been creating a fair number of web-apps with Replit. These "agents" are awesome, they take me through the entire app process. But what if I just want a small bit of my...

I get a lot of newsletters, and I love them. They often contain a wealth of deep insight that I can't easily find while browsing the web. Yes, there are RSS feeds that publish their protected content, but since I spend so much time in my email, I effectively use it as a way of browsing. I really wanted a way to get quick summaries of the...

I love RSS feeds (and ATOM too (and JSONFeed)) but one thing that frustrates me is when a feed doesn't include all of the content. https://full-rss.deno.dev was created to partially solve this. If there is a feed that you really wish was full-content and isn't then you can replace that feed with...

I've been generating a lot of web apps recently. It's been exhilarating to be able to launch projects (albeit on the small side) that I've always wanted to see be created finally be willed into existence. Last week on the train back from London I embarked on my largest project yet, https://tldr.express. I've been amazed by Agents like...

I've always wanted to know which user agents are currently hitting my site... Am I getting crawled? Are ML bots sifting through my site? I added some middleware to my site to log the user agent of every request while using Vercel's KV to store the user agents and their counts. User Agents in the last hour User Agent Count