Aaron Bronow

Why Windmill? For developers aiming to build cloud-hosted productivity apps, Windmill.dev serves as a powerful platform for creating automation applications that include a web UI. It functions as an Open Source alternative to tools like n8n, distinguishing itself by being “freer” and less opinionated. Built-in Web UI Capabilities A major advantage of using Windmill is its provision of a basic web-based UI, which eliminates the immediate need to build a separate native mobile application. This allows developers to create functional tools—such as a photo posting scheduler—that are hosted and publicly accessible from any location via a phone browser. This feature…

Should I be disappointed? There are Starbucks and hipsters and distilleries in Detroit. I went to the convention center, there was a convention happening. Some environmentalists were there. It wasn’t dripping with moss and there were no urban wolves. I went to the waterfront, there was a jazz festival. It wasn’t crumbling into the river and there were no scavengers spear fishing on the rocks. I tried to find parking during a baseball game so I could pee before driving back to the suburbs, the sports bars were packed. I didn’t get mugged. Should I have expected something different? I…

7 years ago when I was working in a cubicle in Bellevue I thought I had made it. Good money, good benefits, interesting work at a fast paced company. Then came the crippling anxiety and quietly building rage. Those side effects seem inseparable from high profile agency jobs with six figure salaries. When I was laid off I saved my last line of code, packed up my desk, and on the mid-day summer drive home I wept as relief washed over me. Looking back I was in no shape, emotionally or physically, to be working 80 hour weeks in a…

I went to Starbucks. They are everywhere. On the highway, downtown, in Safeway, even Albertsons now. The coffee is always the same and they all have free wifi. Here are some other places I’ve been so far. Saint Regis Travel Center St Regis, Montana What’s in a name? The St Regis Travel Center is all that your highway crossed heart could desire: truck stop, gas station, gift shop, casino, grill, smoothie bar, art gallery, trout aquarium! That nut flavored espresso from a self service machine… If we called it by another name, boiling hot coffee from a corrugated paper cup…

That feeling when you know someone is wrong on the Internet… It’s the overlap in the middle of the Venn diagram between Critical Thinking and Critical Feeling. On one side you think they are wrong and on the other side you feel that they are wrong. Combine those two experiences and you’ve got a self-righteous cocktail like a dropshot of everclear into strong beer. That kind of mixture triggers an emotional response that you can’t just ignore. You have two options: either you need to take action and post an incendiary comment in response or you need to slap the…