Eddie Dale
Eddie Dale
Eddie Dale
Personal blog mostly on design and technology, with a focus on simplicity.
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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...
I've been treading water the last months, spending too much time on Linux computer setups and other things that clearly does not speak to my core wishes of simplicity. Lately I've been reading books on Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger,...
I continue to use both Omarchy and MacOS as my daily computers. Some days I feel like MacOS, and some days I feel like Omarchy. I really started to enjoy the tiling window manager in Omarchy (Hyprland), and naturally started to put in...
Decisions decisions.. I have been using both my Omarchy machine and my MacOS (now Tahoe) the last weeks. In the beginning I really enjoyed Omarchy, and I only reluctantly used my Mac when nescessary. However after the honeymoon phase...
I'm about a week into using Omarchy (on a 2017 Macbook), and I've been thinking a lot about how much customization or not I want to be doing on it, seeing that it's more of an exploration than a long-term plan to use this almost...
I finally managed to get my 2017 Macbook up and running on Omarchy. (Yippie!) One of the first things I wanted to get sorted was syncing files quickly between my main Macbook (M1 2020 Macbook) and my Omarchy (the 2017 Macbook) This...