July 2025 Newsletter

Hi!

My experiment with 1 Second Everyday continues, but I must admit I’m running out of steam a little bit. There are days where I feel like nothing noteworthy happens, and I end up taking yet another video of the trees or the sky or something boring. But, at the end of the month, when I go back and review the compiled video, it doesn’t feel boring at all. I guess that’s the whole point of the exercise: it shows you that there’s always something interesting happening, and you just need to look for it.

I combined the videos for May and June, which you can view here.

A new project

I’m happy to announce that I’ve joined the development team at Hardcover, a website and app for book lovers to track their reading and interact with each other. If you know me, you know that I’m a huge bookworm, and that I like to have a record of everything I read, so Hardcover is right in my wheelhouse. If you’ve ever used Goodreads, it’s a similar concept, but we’re trying to do it better. Think of us as David to the Goliath of Goodreads/Amazon.

Hardcover started with a tiny team, and I’m joining along with a cohort of ~20 others. The founders’ ultimate goal is for the project to become open source. It’s still early days, and unsurprisingly, feels a bit chaotic as we learn how to collaborate. But I’m having fun with learning the codebase so far, and since my work for the past few years has primarily been a solo endeavour, it’s also been nice to become a part of a team again.

From the blog

There’s an app called Pocket which lets you save articles from the web and read them later. I used it quite heavily and was upset to learn that it will be shutting down. I wrote a post geeking out about my search for an alternative… go check it out if you’re interested!