Experiments Blog Posts
My friend Sam has a feature on his website where you can send him an anonymous message and it'll be delivered to his phone. I liked the concept and wanted something similar on my site, but a bit more physical than just a push notification. I figured my receipt printer would make the perfect platform for short-form messages.
For a while now I've started my day by unlocking my phone and scrolling through different news and social media sites to see what's going on. It's not exactly great for my mental health and I've been trying to cut down on screen time for a while. I still want to stay up-to-date though, especially after I get up in the morning. What about a custom "front page" printed out and ready for me, instead.
I have a lot of side projects on GitHub. Some of them are kind of popular, and I tend to get issues posted from time to time. The problem though is that usually they kind of get lost in the mix. I've been occasionally writing new issues down on sticky notes whenever I see a notification for one pop-up, but I always wanted an excuse to streamline it a bit more.