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
Last weekend I was building a mini RSS reader (you know how I do), and in the process I was going through some of the blog posts in my feed. One of them stood out: Lost Media: Konpeito Tapes This grabbed me particularly because I’ve been...
Updates from the Bridge: I absolutely loved this video. Speaks to where the internet was and where it's going. The good, the bad, the ugly, and yet a note of why it's still worth building. Thanks to pablo's post I've been sucked into the...
Some of you who follow me are aware that I published Alcove last month, a privacy centered RSS reader. It follows the patterns of traditional RSS readers: categories, syncing, marking read vs unread, viewing content in-app, etc. One of...
I love hand written notes; a poem, a grocery list, a random thought, a to-do, I love it all. There's something about taking these kinds of notes with a physical pen and paper that is just hard to beat. For one I simply remember things...
I'm constantly finding new tools to use in the terminal, so I figured it would be nice to make a post that highlights a few of my new favorites! numr If you've ever used numi then you'll feel right at home with this bad boy. Natural...
Updates from the Bridge: I'm back! Been AFK as I've been traveling for Thanksgiving and in a bunch of transitions. Excited to blog some more 🌝 Big update: I'm now working as a DX Engineer for NameHash Labs! 🎉💫 I'll be building dev tools...
Most of us take RSS for granted. It’s old, outdated, and perhaps “useless” to many. I would assume a large number of Gen Z doesn’t even know what it is. Despite what you may think of RSS, it represents a crucial belief in the internet:...
For a long time I was a craft beer guy, but as I reached my thirties beer just left me feeling dehydrated and groggy. I started picking up Lidl wine for a whopping $3 and it tasted fine to me. Over time I slowly started spending a little...
Updates from the bridge: Khem's post on AI Fatigue really hits home for me and how I feel about the space right now. It also reminded me of The Hog. Used some birthday money to buy a telescope that my son and I can use; I'm pumped about...
I’ve always loved space. Up until I was six years old I lived close by to an air and space center which I visited often. I read books about the Apollo missions, saw one of the capsules at the space center, even watched Apollo 13 with Tom...
I’ve recently talked about moving back to analog forms of media, and just doing things “the hard way.” In retrospect I think a better term and concept would be “friction.” We live in an age of hyper-convenience, where at the snap of a...
Updates from the bridge: Got my portable cassette tape player this week and absolutely love it 🥲 Feels great in the hand and I could spend so much time just sitting and listening to music with this thing. My kids love it too, and there's...
My latest side project Alcove (a privacy RSS reader in beta) solves the problem of privacy invasions regarding what news you might read or what people you follow. However the other side of the equation, blogs, face an interesting...
Updates from the Bridge: Saw some of the drama surrounding Omarchy recently and decide to share some thoughts on the distro and distro philosophy in general I've been playing around with my home server (a BeeLink SER8 which I've named...
There has been quite a bit of controversy surrounding DHH’s Omarchy. If you haven’t heard of it, Omarchy is a pre-configured Arch Linux setup/distro using Hyprland. It’s sleek, beautiful, and comes with all the bells and whistles. The...