Steve Simkins
Steve Simkins
Steve Simkins
My name is Steve. I'm a DX Engineer with a passion for developer tooling that advances cypherpunk values. I'm currently doing Developer Relations at OpenZeppelin and I'm also building Orbiter and bhvr in my spare time.
Latest Posts
It was a regular Thursday at work. I tried to open Postman for the 3rd time in a row, and yet again everything froze and nothing would load. "Fine then." That's how Cielago was born. There are plenty of other tools out there for testing...
This past week my family and I visited the Oregon coast, spending time with our friends who live in the area. It was a beautiful sunny day and a mild 65F with a steady breeze. We specifically visited Cape Kiwanda which has a breathtaking...
Earlier this year we made a plan to visit our friends in Portland, Oregon and do a camping trip at Crater Lake National Park. For months our family had been looking forward to it, especially my oldest son who is obsessed with volcanoes....
Something I discovered several years ago, that I'm now realizing may not be popular knowledge, is that iOS shortcuts has the ability to make API calls. The action is called Get Contents of URL. It's a bit deceiving because it sounds like...
I read a blog post recently saying that it was ok to hate AI. While I agree to some extent, I think it was missing some key points about how to hate AI. It’s easy to just hate something you don’t like. We as humans have a natural...
This post is about a little app called Feeds, how it has evolved and fills all my RSS needs. The Reader I’ve tried many RSS readers, but the one that stuck for a while was NetNewsWire. It has such a simple no nonsense approach to...
For the longest time I’ve had a weird obsession with stationery. I love finding and collecting pens, optimizing inks and paper, collecting a billion notebooks I’ll never use, etc. Recently I got back into using and collecting fountain...
Earlier this week I quietly released an iOS app called scout, a Gemini protocol client. I built it quite a while ago but never published, and thought “why not?” Almost immediately after doing so, I read this post that really made me...
For the past month or two I’ve been experimenting with building personal, self hosted software in Rust. The apps include anything from simple note taking, a wine tracker, image resizing, even a full blown RSS aggregator to replace...
For decades the internet has been a place to make your voice heard, and the cornerstone for most of that time has been blogs. Even in the rise and fall of social media, blogs continue to have their place in the internet. RSS, as old as...
One of my more popular blog posts was how and why I switched to Zed from Neovim. That was almost two years ago, and in that period Zed was my daily driver for programming. Every now and then I would still use Neovim to edit a config or...
If you read my last post then you have a pretty good idea how conflicted I feel about AI and how I’m trying to find balance within programming. In that search I think I found a path I’m going to take for now. My wife got me a Picocalc...
Build a B2B SaaS, make no mistakes Great meme, but in reality that’s how most of our time “programming” has gone. We tinker with multiple agents, git worktrees, markdown files in a dozen different folders, all to maximize our...
Today I’m excited to release a new tool for the AT Protocol: Sequoia. This is a CLI tool that can take your existing self-hosted blog and publish it to the ATmosphere using Standard.site lexicons. If you haven’t explored ATProto you can...
If you’ve been on the internet for the last 10-20 years then you probably have a good sense of how bad the internet has become. We experience it every day when we pick up our phones and scroll through apps that used to mean something to...