Barry Hess

I’m gonna sit out the socials for a bit. If you wanna say hi, feel free to email me.

Oops, that cut off. Should finish with "I’m hoping for positive feelings around what got done."

Self-Made is a Myth Podcast Podcast interview where I share my journey building lasting SaaS businesses, the power of partnerships, and why I'm obsessed with onboarding, risk reduction, and hiring ‘batteries included’ people.

Some good takeaways from @johnnunemaker.com’s Self-Made is a Myth appearance (https://www.johnnunemaker.com/self-made-is-a-myth-podcast/).

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I should probably up the priority on automating imports to Pika.

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I, of time-tracking descent, am going to try time-tracking again (gasp!). I’m hoping

Lots of content. I tried to do the Mars one, but I think I'd need to build up to it.

Looks like their website went down in the Typepad shutdown: www.revolutionspodcast.com. :( Maybe they could bring it over to Pika…

Now to figure out how to rip this scratched PAL disc…

I finished the podcast Dead Eyes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Eyes). It was pretty good! Now I need a new podcast.

A List of Unplugging Possibilities - I am BARRY HESS As I’m thinking about disconnecting from the endless social media and news streams, I’ve been sniffing around the world of paper products. Here are a few publications that I’m considering: •...

New post: A List of Unplugging Possibilities https://bjhess.com/posts/a-list-of-unplugging-possibilities

imgproxy: fast and secure on-the-fly image processing imgproxy is a fast and secure standalone server for resizing and converting remote images. The guiding principles behind imgproxy are security, speed, and simplicity

💯 Part of our reason to stand up an imgproxy.net server was to handle this as it's intensive on the backend and has spotty library support on the front end.

Happy “Facebook Consumer Privacy User Profile Litigation Settlement Administrator has sent you $14.89 USD” day to those who celebrate.

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

An absolutely huge advancement (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cevz13xkxpro) in the treatment of Huntington’s disease.

A Bit Naive - I am BARRY HESS What I wouldn’t give right now to be a bit more naive. What I wouldn’t give for all of us to be a bit more naive. A bit less social...

New post: A Bit Naive https://bjhess.com/posts/a-bit-naive

Yes, I can definitely do an import via the microblog wordpress export option. Though first I’d suggest you sign up for the free Pika account and play around to see if it fits your style and preferences. Write in if you decide to give it a go!

What service are you on today? We have import scripts we can run manually for a few of them.

New post: Today’s Home Screen https://bjhess.com/posts/todays-home-screen

While the national anthem was sung at this soccer game, church bells rang very slowly (every 10 seconds or so). Very foreboding.

If you are ever interested, write in and I can likely help you with a migration. 👍

Very sorry about this breakage!

Made a sad error yesterday and didn’t hear the delivery person ringing the bell with our new iPhone. Guess we’ll wait until Monday. To be fair, yesterday was a wild day of household logistics.

I believe Patreon’s unsubscribe feature is broken and I’m about to start marking as spam. (Though, admittedly, my sample size is one Patreon member.)

Codex has been the worst AI agent experience I’ve had. It’s results have been…okay. But it’s integration with the system has been very lacking. There’s probably ways around it, but…🤷‍♂️.

I should re-watch Sneakers.

As @bjhess.bsky.social, co-founder of Good Enough, a platform that builds small-scale projects, says:

”Connecting in this way, human-to-human, is vital to building a future filled with more connection, understanding, and empathy.”

That is the beauty and promise of the indie web.

A good night in Des Moines with Lawrence and Lake Street Dive.

I can tell I'll be using all of the Codex Plus context credits in a matter of a couple of days.

I’ve been trying JetBrains’s Junie as an AI coding agent. Read good things, but turned out slow and expensive and meh in terms of results. Going to give Codex a try next. If that’s underwhelming, I’ll head back to augmentcode.

I’m on an iPhone 14 Pro and my better half is on the 13 Pro. Our youngest’s 13 Mini battery is toast. I think we’ll move the 13 Pro to the youngest and replace the Mini with a 17 (non-Pro). Four-year cycle!

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🧶✏️👩🏽‍💻 The internet’s hidden creative renaissance (and how to find it) The indie web means the return of gifs, funky cursors, and personal websites

Thankful to be interviewed for Alexandra's latest at New_ Public: newpublic.substack.com/p/the-handma...

Pika - Start Your Happy Blog Pika is a pretty good blogging platform built by the good people at Good Enough.

I’m not 100% sure what you’re looking for with the “live” designation on blogging, but I offer up my service: pika.page. Though it works quite well on mobile, there is no app, which might take it out of the running. Let me know if you have any questions!

Bonne chance! ❤️