i was inspired to try making an astro theme that is semi-terminal based why? i'm not sure i don't even plan to use this for my personal site i just kind of thought it would be an interesting UI quick demo of what i came up with this afternoon would you use it?

Just shipped bsky-comments! Embed Bluesky threads anywhere with a zero-dependency Web Component. • Framework Agnostic (Native WC) • < 3kb gzipped • Zero Config: Just paste the Post URL • Light DOM: Fully customizable (CSS/Tailwind) github.com/florianschep... #webdev #opensource #buildinpublic

I like the idea of using something like Super Whisper or another speech to text app, but found them a little too clunky or hard to use. Plus it seems like the kind of software that shouldn't require a subscription I was excited to come across handy.computer this week!

Meg Ryan and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth

someone made a little web app to generate settings for the yamaha thr series of guitar amps, and I think that's really coool ben.robertson.is/notes/using...

This prompt from the nextjs mcp makes me chuckle

If you haven't been able to tell, I've been spending a lot of time on email marketing for ColorBliss this month. One big initiative is a new drip campaign. After folks go through the onboarding flow, I'll hit them with one email a week. Each one is short, following the rule of one.

✅ launch new feature ✅ announce the new feature ✅ follow up with an upgrade email one week later to the people who clicked on the new feature announcement 93% open and 89% click rate is an all time high for me. but so far a 0% conversion to paid plan

journalism is not dead www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...

Changing his name to Benito because he’s a bad bunny

Conversions slowed way down for ColorBliss in January. It's been a little concerning for me, but December was a really great month so I've been trying to roll with the punches. But I have a new theory as to why...

did a little spelunking on stats for a year in review email for ColorBliss 92k new users, up from 51k previous year!! interestingly, total coloring pages created was down quite a bit from the previous year (500k this year versus 750k last) I think there's a few reasons:

Posting this to X, Threads, and Bluesky as an experiment

decided to go ye olde schoole with the dates on my personal site

this looks like a legit review, and then upon further inspection... i flagged it to amazon, but i wonder how they are handling this kind of thing at scale and if they can

did a podcast with my old mentor Adam Landrum. he gave me my first real shot in tech when i joined his agency as an apprentice back in 2014. really enjoyed this one, both recording it and listening back. (link: ben.robertson.is/notes/i-app...) we talk about:

Something I've learned building ColorBliss: you only hear the bad news by default. Customers rarely reach out to tell you you're doing a great job. This can really mess with your head if you let it. Wrote about how I deal with it on my blog: ben.robertson.is/notes/you-h...

new year, new home page layout trying to encourage myself to write more this year :) ben.robertson.is/notes/new-y...

I decided not to do a sale or promotion for black friday this year for colorbliss But I still sent an email out to my list I was mostly just curious to see if it would get opened during the rush of thanksgiving / black friday emails

a while back on x I saw people recommending cerebras for super fast text generation tl;dr: prompt improving now runs in 400 milliseconds instead of 4 seconds or more!

entering my "i will give you a great quote for your product launch" era

I wrote up a little doc on how to get the ahrefs MCP working in cursor so you can do keyword research / queue up site audit fixes without leaving your editor ben.robertson.is/notes/how-t...

the colorbliss dashboard has been feeling a little sluggish to me today i added proper loading states for each route as well as a nice little sidebar navigation animation / active indicator to make everything feel a lot snappier i'm not going to show the before because....

a fun little update to my personal site - my face now follows your mouse around :) Kylan O'Connor (@kylancodes) posted an example of how he did this for his personal site, and I thought it would be a good fit for my illustration on my home page

seeing the token awards from openai got me curious about colorbliss. i'm at 3-4 billion tokens so far trending at half a billion in the last 30 days. looks like I'm on track to hit 10 billion somewhere in the next 12 months

this is the best review of colorbliss i have seen "Well Lord Liftin Jesus I have found it" lol love this blog too! gotta love real people being real people on the internet utopianpudding.com/2025/09/21/...

i got early access to this, and it was nice to be able to make quick changes to my sites from a dashboard i'm already familiar with and in regularly! and colorbliss is mentioned in the blog :)

I've been focusing on optimizing the funnel for ColorBliss the past two weeks, and my latest experiment is a big change to the layout of the "choose plan" page. Conversion rate had dropped off quite a bit there in recent months

if you know me, you probably already know about ColorBliss. (if you don't, it's the coloring page creator I've been working on for two years!) in the spirit of "never stop launching," ColorBliss is live on Peerlist this week.

Missed it by a couple of days, but ColorBliss is officially two years old!!

thinking about a new tagline for colorbliss.........

achievement unlocked

one fun thing that happens in the colorbliss support queue teachers tell their students about colorbliss and then they sign up for class or something and then reply to my emails

what does it mean if this still image is my best TikTok of the month

new seo milestone for colorbliss 📈

well well well, would you look at that turns out highly targeted emails to your list are much more engaging! gonna have to push this strategy farther...

I got completely nerd-sniped this week...and well...started a new project. I signed up for an expensive-for-me SaaS product to help me with something on ColorBliss. High-priced, but if it delivered on it's promise, it would change the game. But the onboarding experience was clunky and slow.

celebrating two years of self-employment this week... and going strong!!

this strikes me as a really odd email for trustpilot to send out to everyone like...this is so far outside of your core offering (which I use, begrudgingly) why should we care about the font on your website?

new open graph images who dis ben.robertson.is

gonna clean this up a bit, but webmentions are working on my personal site! it's able to pull likes/reposts/posts from bluesky. looks like every other social network has blocked api access for this kind of stuff now but also it should accept webmentions from your webmention enabled site as well!!

got a google news alert about colorbliss this morning but when i took a second to look at it, it triggered my dead internet theory alarm if you're curious to follow along and take a peak into a hot pile of internet garbage, i documented it here ben.robertson.is/notes/a-perf...

for whatever reason, devin's agent is so much easier to work with than cursor set up was more direct, and I feel like it "just works" most of the time the summary and detail is really impressive to me i find that i go to devin first when i have a small well-defined change

cursor made me a nice little link preview plugin for my personal site

i finally did a write up on that weird SVG issue that gave my marketing site 100 seconds of total blocking time dev.to/benrobertso...

new coloring book just dropped these are super fun to make colorbliss.com/blog/turn-i...

this support email made my cry, but in the best way possible i love my job

on trustpilot, 6 five star reviews average out to 4.2 stars

people are so weird

as soon as I got one (REAL) review on trustpilot, I started getting emails like this every day :(