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I am enjoying biking on Rouvy more than I thought I would. "Rode" through the Azores this morning, gorgeous!

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I made some minor design & content structure tweaks to the Practical Accessibility website (ahead of its 3rd anniversary). practical-accessibility.today One of the changes I made was creating a dedicated page for the many reviews & testimonials that the course has received over the past 3+ years.

practical-accessibility.today

The Practical Accessibility Course

A get-right-down-to-it online course for Web designers and developers who want to start creating more accessible Web user interfaces and digital products today

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Eric Howey @erichowey.dev · 29/09/2026

Nearing the finish line for @stampgood.com but as with any project you fix one thing and find 2 more things! Hoping to have it live early in October!

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Eric Howey @erichowey.dev · 11/09/2026

I am feature locked and stress testing edge cases in @stampgood.com prepping for an early October launch!

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Eric Howey @erichowey.dev · 09/09/2026

It has been an epic amount of Ikea boxes over the weekend. AI isn't helping me with that...

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Eric Howey @erichowey.dev · 28/08/2026

Preparing to launch something into the hyper webs is scary as hell! @stampgood.com is moving closer to go time.

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Eric Howey @erichowey.dev · 27/08/2026

Side quest of this summer has been learning to play D&D with my kids! Which has been both easier and better than I expected! #DadasDM

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Eric Howey @erichowey.dev · 09/08/2026

I'm building with @rwsdk.bsky.social! Worth checking out if you are evaluating react frameworks, I know it isn't the juggernauts that NextJs and Astro are but it is fund to be working in a framework where you have direct access to the dev team and a smaller, more nimble, product!

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Eric Howey @erichowey.dev · 08/08/2026

With @stampgood.com I am building something that is purposefully slow and analog. Just reducing friction for users (like me!) to send analog snail mail!

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Eric Howey @erichowey.dev · 07/08/2026

Working to figure out marketing and customer acquisition ideas is new territory for me. But made some small progress in this today!

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Eric Howey @erichowey.dev · 04/08/2026

Tried some of the lower tier AI models, e.g. DeepSeek, and came away feeling unimpressed.

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Eric Howey @erichowey.dev · 16/07/2026

Today's win was finding a student-run legal service that will review privacy policy and return policy for me!

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Eric Howey @erichowey.dev · 14/07/2026

What do Canadian apps/services do about serving customers in Quebec and meeting their consumer protection and french language rules?? Any first hand experience with navigating that?

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Eric Howey @erichowey.dev · 14/07/2026

I am continuing to hack away on @stampgood.com and one of the hardest things going into the later summer and fall is going to be figuring out marketing!

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Eric Howey @erichowey.dev · 14/06/2026

The challenge of not adding more fun features to a project and doing boring repetitive edge case testing is real!

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Eric Howey @erichowey.dev · 13/06/2026

Chased down a software bug related to network latency today that I assumed was me (and my bad code), turns out if was a regression somewhere in my npm packages. This is what I get for yolo updating my package.json versions!

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Eric Howey @erichowey.dev · 29/05/2026

Marketing is the hard part!

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Eric Howey @erichowey.dev · 22/05/2026

I am up to my elbows in the Cloudflare ecosystem and deeply impressed. But wow is there a lot there.

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Eric Howey @erichowey.dev · 20/05/2026

I am working on an idea to increase social connection using actual mail. Mail delivered to your real physical mailbox that you can touch, hold and read. Analog. Real. Personal. Snails. 🐌💌

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Eric Howey @erichowey.dev · 01/05/2026

Alright I am gonna try this social media thing again because I am excited about an idea I am hacking on. The basic premise is to increase social connection and raise money for charity at the same time. Using snail mail. Like real actual mail that comes to a physical mailbox. Old school and analog.

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Eric Howey @erichowey.dev · 22/05/2025

Been enjoying this: github.com/redwoodjs/sdk Check out what the Redwood team has been up to!

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Eric Howey @erichowey.dev · 16/05/2025

I’m back to coding for fun! Feels good! Hacked out a basic game with PixiJS and wrapping my head around the new @redwoodjs.com SDK. Loving both of these!

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Eric Howey @erichowey.dev · 29/03/2025

Anyone got any learn to type recommendations? 10 year old. Hard to find something not crammed with ads. Not adverse to a one time purchase.

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Eric Howey @erichowey.dev · 29/03/2025

Still love that feeling when you get straight 💯 in lighthouse!

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Eric Howey @erichowey.dev · 16/03/2025

I am over engineering a simple colouring website. It’s for my kids. (And other kids too). And it’s fun. www.rainbowblocks.art

rainbowblocks.art

RainbowBlocks.art

Fun with blocks. Fun that rocks. A simpler coloring site for kids, adults, and aliens. Have fun. Be playful.

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Eric Howey @erichowey.dev · 31/12/2024

Trying my hand at game development with my son using @godotengine.org Game is “Fart Master Blaster” 🤣💨

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Eric Howey @erichowey.dev · 24/12/2024

Updated my site to Astro v5 and the new content loaders api. Reasonably painless. Got one small bug in my RSS feed to sort out.

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Eric Howey @erichowey.dev · 23/12/2024

I wrapped 2024 with one last blog post. One more than last year which is mini-win! Looking at using Sanity + Next.js for simpler content searching. www.erichowey.dev/writing/sear...

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Eric Howey @erichowey.dev · 23/11/2024

Yeah so Alberta is a funny place for weather. Last weekend rode my bike a ton. This weekend an absolute mountain of snow and cross country skiing. Went from bike season to ski season overnight.

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Eric Howey @erichowey.dev · 17/11/2024

So I am in the process of testing and fine tuning my last freelance project of the year. Love this stage!

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Eric Howey @erichowey.dev · 17/11/2024

The snow is holding off here in Western Canada meaning biking season is strangely still continuing…

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Eric Howey @erichowey.dev · 10/11/2024

Got in probably the last MTB ride of the season today. Also my first big ride since injury in August. Felt good.

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Eric Howey @erichowey.dev · 07/11/2024

Tonight's project: year end accounting for the business. Yuck. But it is all done and with the accountant now. Next stop, tax bills.

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Eric Howey @erichowey.dev · 06/11/2024

👋 I'm now over here! Full time in mental health. Passion time in web dev. Exercise time on a mountain bike.

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