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i found out about this clone of ColorBliss because someone submitted a responsible disclosure

not only did this clone forget to change the brand name from ColorBliss to their name on most of the pages of the site, the contact email is my email 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

testing out a new image model for colorbliss photo conversion

it works really well with text!

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adding a bit of fun to the colorbliss home page


or rather, a bit MORE fun, since there is already plenty of fun on the page 🖼️👨‍🎨

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Default queued jottle

i'm sure it juices the engagement numbers but i find it highly annoying

and then afterwards say something like, there's actually one secret thing that i'm not telling you about this, do you want to know?

do i want to know the secret? yes.

do i now doubt everything it just told me? also yes.

the engagement baiting on chatgpt has gotten really bad in the past few days. first noticed it over the weekend.

i'll ask it a question, and it will give me an answer and a long rationale for that answer

example:

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First pizza from the new oven 🍕

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happy friday

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a trial user just let me know that the ColorBliss pricing plans are more expensive than a company that has $45 million in funding

with a team across 25 countries (pictured below)

that's my competition.

pretty wild that a 1 person operation can even be on the same field!

Thank you! This is super exciting

And I added a rule to prompt me to log an experiment as we are completing each item we work on.


Today I went back through the last week and added review points for stuff we shipped, as well as a few new experiments that we are running starting today

So I asked the LLM to make a small command to log each experiment for us to track and review later.

It keeps track of:

- hypothesis

- feature

- success criteria (and what system to check them in!)

- timeline

A new thing I'm trying out: having the LLM keep track of the experiments I ship

I realized I'm shipping a ton of updates but having a hard time remembering two weeks out to go back and check to see if they worked

(this originally appeared at ben.robertson.is/jottles/a-n... on February 23, 2026)

cursor! been using it for two years

Say more please?

i was inspired to try making an astro theme that is semi-terminal based

why?

i'm not sure

i don't even plan to use this for my personal site

i just kind of thought it would be an interesting UI

quick demo of what i came up with this afternoon

would you use it?

Just shipped bsky-comments!

Embed Bluesky threads anywhere with a zero-dependency Web Component.

• Framework Agnostic (Native WC)
• < 3kb gzipped
• Zero Config: Just paste the Post URL
• Light DOM: Fully customizable (CSS/Tailwind)

github.com/florianschep...

#webdev #opensource #buildinpublic

Handy is a fast, open source, speech to text app I really like the idea of using something like Super Whisper or another speech to text app, especially just for like getting my thoughts…

I like seeing the builder's face on the home page - his demo is simple but effective!

And the transcription is super fast. First impressions are good so far!

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Handy Handy is a cross platform, open-source, speech-to-text application for your computer

I like the idea of using something like Super Whisper or another speech to text app, but found them a little too clunky or hard to use.

Plus it seems like the kind of software that shouldn't require a subscription

I was excited to come across handy.computer this week!

Meg Ryan and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth

Using AI to configure your guitar amplifier A few weeks ago I picked up a new amplifier for my guitar. Rather I should say a new to me amplifier. It's a Yamaha THR30ii wireless…

someone made a little web app to generate settings for the yamaha thr series of guitar amps, and I think that's really coool

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this originally appeared at ben.robertson.is/jottles/thi... on February 12, 2026

This prompt from the nextjs mcp makes me chuckle

Has engineering ever been focused on refining skills and knowledge?