Proper launch for Pika is imminent. The team has worked hard through sickness all month to get here. It’s a modest product in terms of feature checklists, but it feels so nice.
I think I found that URL redirection service I was after: Redirect Pizza.
We at Good Enough have been cranking on Pika this week. None of this has really landed in the product, so it seems an update is in order.
Just deployed draft posts to Pika. Felt a bit uncomfortable as it doesn’t have quite the refinement that we like to have in a feature - even if it’s early days. Should clean up in the next week or two, though!
Pika Pages have arrived! It’s still a little rough around the edges, but I can now run my personal site on Pika. pika.pika.page/posts/pik…
This week’s Pika status, along with some personal-site inspiration: Pika Gliding Along.
After nearly 20 years I, with help from Good Enough, finally wrote blogging software. Now, now, Pika is just an alpha version, but it’ll grow into something special. I can feel it! Read more if you’re interested.
We plan to open up an alpha version of our blog software later today or tomorrow morning (US). It will be very basic to start, and the next significant developments probably won’t happen until early 2024. Still, if early adoption (and influence) is your jam, keep your ears open!
Trying on the IBM Plex font family.
One. More. Blog. Software!
Our little alpha at GE is coming along. Hopefully something play-withable early next month.
Things are coming along. (Still currently with a mission of “software to make my personal blog+site.”)
I think I’m a RubyMine (JetBrains) person now.
Here I go with another killer idea. We’ve decided to write personal blog software at Good Enough. That’s a pretty open market, right? 🤣 Our reasons aren’t that we see a big hole or have a big idea. I shared my very basic reasoning on the GE blog.
You running multiple monitors. This might save your sanity.
Wow, Firefox.
Still referencing RailsCasts after all these years. 😂
Broke down and ordered a Keychron Q1 keyboard (fully assembled) to compare and contrast against the Kinesis Advantage2 that I think I’m giving up on.
I was excited for macOS Sonoma (which I finally installed) because I recalled that it would change the behavior of opening apps stealing focus (usually when you’re mid-typing in another app). Focus-stealing still seems to be happening. Is there a setting that I need to change?
Today Good Enough’s Letterbird takes flight. Letterbird is a free contact form on the web that allows you to receive emails without plopping your email address on the open internet. Pro features, too, if you’d like to fine-tune. More to come!
I wonder what it would cost to buy weirdwideweb.com?
It’s been a minute since I posted about Yay.Boo. We now have some example pages to hopefully inspire you to make something even cooler/weirder. What will you Yay.Boo?
Been trying to use the Kinesis Adv 2 board for 8 months. The alternative layout is still not stuck in my head. Was going to ask if anyone has found a more traditional board that has similar ergonomic benefits. Just don’t think you can get similar benefits without moving keys off the pinky fingers.
Giving Panic’s Nova for Ruby on Rails development a try, so far with the Ruby on Rails extension (by Tommaso Negri) and that’s it. Happy to hear other extension suggestions. Been using VS Code for some years, but it seems constantly in “what’s the best configuration?” hell. We’ll see how it goes.