Samuel Sutch

What failure of biology is this that a man can not eat 6 doughnuts in one sitting without consequence? If anything I̶ we should be super powered afterwards.

So is this what we need?

- Fast, mobile friendly, modern forum software
- Open source with affordable, customizable SaaS hosting
- Easy deployment, and easy to contribute to
- Highly customizable but great defaults
- Off-ramps from SaaS if you want to host your own instance

I would love this!

Hosting can be solved though--Discourse and other forums have operated on a SaaS model with off-ramps to your own hosting for a long time now. The cost of starting up is still too large ($100/mo for a site with a custom domain) and there's still the problem of the software just being crappy.

Hosting seems to be a major hurdle--community managers probably aren't interested in provisioning databases, keeping software up-to-date, etc. But perhaps that's just the price to pay for freedom from the hegemony of enshittified, politically-influenced, data-harvesting major platforms.

I have to imagine the accelerating enshittification of sites like Reddit and Discord is leaving people looking for an alternative solution when they want to start a community.

Would anyone actually want to use this? Centralized apps are certainly still dominant but I feel like the sun could be setting on these major social media properties. We could be heading into an era where people again want to build their own communities.

My approach would involve creating an easily deploy-able, easily theme-able forum package that mostly operates with sever-rendered HTML. It would be fast by default.

It would feature modern design language, mentions and tags, predictable information architecture, and a mobile friendly design.

I might be old school but I have a recurring desire to build a modern, not shitty, forum package with the intention of reviving the golden age of forums.

The most recent generation of forum software (like Discourse) honestly suck - bloated SPAs, clunky unfamiliar UIs, outdated designs.

1:39:42 half marathon

I did it! Broke 1:40 in the half marathon. Next in my sights… 40 min 10k. #running

That was fun. This article did well on @newsycombinator.bsky.social a few days ago.

I love that undeniable flow state that I get in when...

☑ Copy pasting my resume into a job application
☑ Filling out diversity surveys (I'm not diverse)
☑ Manually writing cover letters for authenticity

Can't think of anything more burnout inducing than a full day of filling out job applications.

Now do Pure Protein bars. I have to know... for reasons

I am uninstalling AI coding assistants from my personal computer Having binged on AI coding assistants for the past several months I've come to a realization about how they have had a negative effect my psychological well being.

I did some personal writing tonight sam.sutch.net/posts/uninst...

Been job hunting for a single day and holy shit, LinkedIn is so brain damaged.

“TravelStateGov warning about level 4 travel advisory”

LMFAO this real ad on Reddit.

Does LinkedIn seriously have fucking games? How embarrassing for them. Imagine being the LI Games PM.

Is there a browser writing app that I can use like Google Docs that doesn't just absolutely smash AI in my face every five fucking seconds? I don't want to "generate" or "help writing" - I am here to write my own fucking words!

Oh no, now that my SuperBlasts are broken in, I might be a convert. I felt like they never fit and felt blocky but after ~40 miles it's they're pretty sweet. #running

Guys, I might not be built to sit and prompt an LLM all day every day. Kinda sucks.

Slack ad: "Unlock AI for 50% off"

Um, no

There are no web crawlers anymore. Googlebot et al are wholesale web scrapers.

From the interestingasfuck community on Reddit: AI detector says that the Declaration Of Independence was written by AI. Explore this post and more from the interestingasfuck community

Lending credence to the simulation hypothesis

This is snowballing fast. Looking like I'll be migrating out of my "heroku" (I was using Fly.io) to a Real Cloud Provider.

I finally gave in and had to break "web" out of the "backend" repo for Roam. 😭 They grow up so fast

How To Resize Images in 2025 In the olden days, back when we simply let our kids play in the street, resizing images on your server was simple. Nowadays, as with the rising sophistication of our technology, so too has photo resiz...

I wrote a blog about my journey writing the image processing backend for @roamhq.bsky.social.

Oblivion remastered announcement

Oh no, my kids, wife, and career will be devastated.

Oooh new stickers just arrived. @roamhq.bsky.social

Which seems to (even if accidentally) subtly imply that law enforcement actions could be influenced by my display of support for their organization?

"Colorado State Patrol" just called asking for a donation to in exchange for a license plate frame.

The caller mentioned that I can put it on my vehicle so that "when we pull up behind you we know that you're behind us."