Eric Howey

Easiest way to get those Christmas cards out is live at StampGood! But also I know it is early. Just excited to have these cards live and ready to go! www.stampgood.com/blog/christm...

This a brutal over simplification but my feeling with AI is that it is driving a shift from: Web developer -> Ideas developer The crux is no longer the ability to write code (but that does still matter). It is the ideas, the vision, the dreams, the concepts, the creativity.

One of the small frustrations I have with StampGood is that we don’t have real stamps on the postcards. I really hope when this project scales (or if it scales) I can transition to a process that allows for actual real stamps on the cards. It just isn’t possible yet though.

Oh the days where your out-of-date Wordpress site would just get spammed with junk comments and shady backlinks on it…simpler times.

✍️ Just published a new post about my most-anticipated CSS proposals from Interop 2027! If you’re not familiar, the Interop project is a collaboration between browsers to pick shared focus areas. There’s *so much* good stuff this year, it was hard to pick just 10!

How are folks building SEO content and marketing momentum without just dumping slop? Like real human made content takes time and is hard. I see all these SEO/marketing influencers making it seem easy to scale a project with AI slop.

Unrelated to anything I normally post on here; it was fun to watch the Calgary Flames win tonight! Devin Cooley’s postgame interview is worth a listen.

Hoping to get Christmas card templates out there for @stampgood.com this week! Just waiting for the proofs I ordered to arrive in the mail before I release them.

Tomorrow, October 16th, marks Practical Accessibility's third birthday. 🎂 To celebrate, I am gifting everybody 25% off for the next 48 hours 🎁 Individual and team licenses alike! The discount is automatically applied during checkout—no code is needed. 👉🏻 practical-accessibility.today Enjoy! #a11y

Today's project is finishing up support for @stampgood.com to support fundraising codes. Basically your sports team has a "code" and then a certain amount from each card sold goes back to that team/club. Win win.

Is there any word on whether Cloudflare will release a version of clef as a moderation specific LLM. Kind of like omni-moderation from OpenAI? Seems like an ideal fit for a model like that?

Has anyone tried clef-flash as a moderation model for content? Something like the omni-moderation model from OpenAI? Seems like an ideal model for moderation but nice to have something that is "moderation" specific like OpenAI's model?

StampGood took its first real orders this week!! 🎉🎉 I will do some kind of official launch post next week, but yeah it feels good to hit that milestone. Now I am working on the Christmas card ideas!

My development note from today with @stampgood.com is how amazing early users are at feedback! So many great comments, but also so many great improvement ideas!

I need to figure out this marketing thing. Self-promotion is hard.

Stop complaining about GitHub and build the next one. Do it in 2 weeks and you could win $25k.

Maybe a controversial opinion but I have had better coding outcomes with Opus 5.5 over Sol 6.1. I tried them both quite a bit in the last week. Opus 5.5 just seems to write code that is more aligned with decisions I would make whereas Sol 6.1 seems to over engineer problems and I reel it back in.

I am enjoying biking on Rouvy more than I thought I would. "Rode" through the Azores this morning, gorgeous!

I made some minor design & content structure tweaks to the Practical Accessibility website (ahead of its 3rd anniversary). practical-accessibility.today One of the changes I made was creating a dedicated page for the many reviews & testimonials that the course has received over the past 3+ years.

Nearing the finish line for @stampgood.com but as with any project you fix one thing and find 2 more things! Hoping to have it live early in October!

I am feature locked and stress testing edge cases in @stampgood.com prepping for an early October launch!

It has been an epic amount of Ikea boxes over the weekend. AI isn't helping me with that...

Preparing to launch something into the hyper webs is scary as hell! @stampgood.com is moving closer to go time.

Side quest of this summer has been learning to play D&D with my kids! Which has been both easier and better than I expected! #DadasDM

I'm building with @rwsdk.bsky.social! Worth checking out if you are evaluating react frameworks, I know it isn't the juggernauts that NextJs and Astro are but it is fund to be working in a framework where you have direct access to the dev team and a smaller, more nimble, product!

With @stampgood.com I am building something that is purposefully slow and analog. Just reducing friction for users (like me!) to send analog snail mail!

Working to figure out marketing and customer acquisition ideas is new territory for me. But made some small progress in this today!

Tried some of the lower tier AI models, e.g. DeepSeek, and came away feeling unimpressed.

Today's win was finding a student-run legal service that will review privacy policy and return policy for me!

What do Canadian apps/services do about serving customers in Quebec and meeting their consumer protection and french language rules?? Any first hand experience with navigating that?

I am continuing to hack away on @stampgood.com and one of the hardest things going into the later summer and fall is going to be figuring out marketing!

The challenge of not adding more fun features to a project and doing boring repetitive edge case testing is real!

Chased down a software bug related to network latency today that I assumed was me (and my bad code), turns out if was a regression somewhere in my npm packages. This is what I get for yolo updating my package.json versions!

I am very happily using @rwsdk.bsky.social to build @stampgood.com

Marketing is the hard part!

I am up to my elbows in the Cloudflare ecosystem and deeply impressed. But wow is there a lot there.

I am working on an idea to increase social connection using actual mail. Mail delivered to your real physical mailbox that you can touch, hold and read. Analog. Real. Personal. Snails. 🐌💌

Alright I am gonna try this social media thing again because I am excited about an idea I am hacking on. The basic premise is to increase social connection and raise money for charity at the same time. Using snail mail. Like real actual mail that comes to a physical mailbox. Old school and analog.

Been enjoying this: github.com/redwoodjs/sdk Check out what the Redwood team has been up to!

I’m back to coding for fun! Feels good! Hacked out a basic game with PixiJS and wrapping my head around the new @redwoodjs.com SDK. Loving both of these!

Anyone got any learn to type recommendations? 10 year old. Hard to find something not crammed with ads. Not adverse to a one time purchase.

Today's experiment in geometric patterns: www.rainbowblocks.art?grid-size=la...

Still love that feeling when you get straight 💯 in lighthouse!

I am over engineering a simple colouring website. It’s for my kids. (And other kids too). And it’s fun. www.rainbowblocks.art

Trying my hand at game development with my son using @godotengine.org Game is “Fart Master Blaster” 🤣💨