Eddie Dale
Eddie Dale
Eddie Dale
Personal blog mostly on design and technology, with a focus on simplicity.
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Note to self. I've had the joy of bringing a few sites live the last days, and in one case it was a multi-site with 7 different domains. During the process I needed a simple overview of the DNS propagation status. Before I've used online...
I wonder if the price hikes across the board on tech (memory, storage etc.) result in an increased focus on longevity and using devices for longer. Both on consumer level, but also on corporate level with updated policies to save costs....
Bastian Allgeier talked about "brain lock-in" on his podcast interview with Working Draft and it stuck a bit with me. It came out from the discussions about "vendor lock-ins" when building software (Kirby CMS in this case) and the need...
Rafael Nadal at his best was incredible. The elegance of Roger Federer too. The dominance of Serena Williams and Novak Djokovic in their prime was equally impressive. Still, someone amazing in his own right, and far less known, is...
Payment terminals, ATMs, Amazon, international transfers, currency exchange apps. Whenever you get the choice, never agree to an automatic currency conversion. It's called Dynamic Currency Conversion (DCC), and it works like an airport...
For a really long time I was using the same setup for development. Basically a macbook and Sublime text. Then using DDEV for Craft CMS sites, and Laravel Herd for Kirby or general PHP/static sites. But things started to change when I...
One of the main issues I've had so far, is that I sometimes want to add a file from my mac to the remarkable, and still be able to interact with the graphical elements of it on the reMarkable. Simple example: Adding a pdf page with a...
It took me a long time to make the jump, but I finally did, and my god is the reMarkable tablet a joyful product. My long time colleague and friend have used the devices since they first came out, and have always been raving about them,...
"In traditional Japanese aesthetics, wabi-sabi centers on the acceptance of transience and imperfection." – Wikipedia It feels especially relevant now in AI-slop days, but I guess that knife could cut both ways. What I take out of it is...
Openclaw is still dominating the tech-news, and the recent acquisition from OpenAI raises a lot of opinions and reactions. It's not that I don't have my own issues with that change, but I find it more fascinating to follow the whole...
Lately I've been getting into generative coding. Stuff like p5.js and just svg's in general. Super inspired by people like George Francis and Daniel Shiffman. But on completely different arenas I'm also really digging Suno for musical...
I built a simple color palette tool inspired by Flexoki by Steph Ango It's available at coloki.vasser.no I kept reaching for the Flexoki playground but wanted something simpler. In it you basically just define a primary color, and it...
This web site is now available as a Kirby template / starter kit. Files can be downloaded either here or directly at Github. Why release it as a template? Learn to ship Finishing something that isn't a client project has always been a...
Now that AI is getting so good, why are you even trying to do the work yourself? Everywhere I look, tools promise to replace effort: Fire your photographer Create apps and websites by chatting with AI Never start from scratch And...
This article is not about Fizzy as a product, but rather about the decisions 37Signals make regarding how to launch their product. First off, they have been working very openly on this project for a long time now. The founder, Jason...