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.
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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...
This weekend I went to a secondhand store that specializes in books, movies, CDs, DVDs, you name it. The mission: find a tape deck and some tapes, and oh boy did I hit the jackpot. What you see in the image above is a tape deck I found...
Updates from the bridge: Just got back from a great vacation in the mountains with my family! Wildlife sighting score: 6x 🐻 12x 🦃 9x 🦌 1x 🦉 Been busting my tail getting Alcove ready for release. If you're interested in a privacy RSS...
A smol sneak peak on the end-to-end encrypted RSS reader I'm working on: Alcove Got a long way to go but really excited about what we got so far! reply via email
Updates from the bridge: Been a fun and eventful weekend! Finally got around to setting up my own git server with soft serve. It's a much simpler take on a git server in that it doesn't have any web ui, just a TUI if you ssh into the...
Updates from the bridge: I'm about a week in of wiping out most of my socials and the level of mental health improvement I've experienced is insane. I feel so much better lol. DJ_Dave had their first headline show and it absolutely...
Just deleted/signed out of almost all of my social accounts that I've used over the past decade. I'm a firm believer that the endless feeds of slop by corporations is doing nothing good for my brain, and today I'm putting my money where...
Updates from the bridge: Got an email regarding my E2EE RSS Reader POC recommending Evolu and I'm obsessed. A end-to-end encrypted DB sync engine? LETS GO Great IRC Overview by Preah that you should definitely check out! One of my...
I mentioned in my last Captains Log that I was curious if a web-based privacy focused RSS reader could be built, and I think I'm onto something 👀 Your browser does not support the video tag. User creates an anonymous account with the...
Updates from the bridge: For once had some time to chill and relax this weekend so I played around with UTM on my Mac and ran Windows XP; talk about nostalgia overload 😭 The sounds, the UI, everything just screams the early 2000s. I need...
One of my friends questioned some design choices in Sipp, mainly the replacement of NanoId for creating short IDs/slugs for snippets. They make some good points and while I don't think a response is necessary, I thought it might be good...