Just 2024 Things

Since I last shared my homescreen at the start of the year, iOS18 added dark mode icons which I immediately switched on. I still have a couple of apps that haven't updated but I need them on my home screen so I just live with it. Other changes: I'm back on Reddit but only reading, not posting I'm using Raindrop instead of Omnivore (which has shut...

A couple of weeks ago, Jay reached out to see if I’d be like to be a guest on Conduit and of course I immediately said yes. We spoke about some of my projects including what I’m doing with EchoFeed and then I was challenged[1] to make a site, which I did. In the super conductors post-show Jay asked me about British cars and I had to channel all...

"When did Robb last watch Mean Girls?" A question that no one except me cares about but here we are, writing about a website I made to answer that one question. TL;DRSee the site here. Why I built this because during the recording of episode 91 of Conduit I had to come up with a new connection. I did have one prepared, but Jay and I had joked...

There are a few ways people like to check the meta tags on their sites. I previously used Metatags.io but there's also Hey Meta and probably a lot more of them around I don't know about. But, as the old developer saying goes, none of them did exactly what I wanted so I built my own. TL;DRSee Lens here. I had previously started this project a long...

You know how sometimes you do one thing then you think "oh I'll do this other thing" then another thing related to that and the next thing you know you're making a weird website from a web component someone made because you can? No? Anyway. EmojiStorm is such a project. It starts with one instance of Zach's snow-fall component then you can just...