The hardest part about writing Entropy is writing the intro here. There’s so much good content out there and this week is no different. I’ve had time to back through my hundreds of open tabs and record some older posts finally too. Keep going everyone! Somehow it’s October now!
inessential: Why NetNewsWire Is Not a Web App
Link: https://inessential.com/2025/10/04/why-netnewswire-is-not-web-app.html
NetNewsWire is a treasure and an excellent app. Apple is in a dangerous place consistently eroding the support of developers who have loved them for so long, and it’s getting harder to ignore. DHH has made Omarchy and Linux look more attractive than ever.
Litestream v0.5.0 is Here
Link: https://fly.io/blog/litestream-v050-is-here/
I love how Fly write their blog posts, and I love what they’re doing here. I’ve been meaning to try them for a long time. Is anyone reading using them? I love SQLite and I’d really love to use it for my next project. Maybe now’s the time?
Cognition | Rebuilding Devin for Claude Sonnet 4.5: Lessons and Challenges
Link: https://cognition.ai/blog/devin-sonnet-4-5-lessons-and-challenges
With the new Anthropic model, the creators of Devin have a really good write up on its idiosyncrasies and how they’re using them. ‘Context anxiety’ is a nice turn of phrase!
Being good isn’t enough
Link: https://joshs.bearblog.dev/being-good-isnt-enough/
Even 5 years ago, the average comfort level around technology was much lower than it is today. It’s gone up pretty drastically from my perspective, so the bar is higher than ever. Everyone is good now. Pure technical abilities will only get you so far! You’re competing in an environment where being good at the core technical work is table stakes, and you need all these other skills to stand out and make an impact.
How I Do Support and Community
Link: https://pketh.org/support-community.html
“Treating support like a bean-counter really is missing the forest for the trees” - yes! Support is still a vastly underrated and undervalued component of software. As I always say, nobody reads anything. You can safely assume every error message, tooltip and helpdesk article you’ve added to make things clear have all been read by approximately zero people, so answer their emails! Help them!