Andy Baio
Writer and developer; runs Waxy.org, co-organises the XOXO festival, and was the first CTO of Kickstarter.
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Liked WordPress Gutenberg editor
I write directly in WordPress’s new Gutenberg editor, which is now on par with Medium as a best-of-class writing environment for the web.
usesthis.com 10 Dec 2019
Loved MacBook Pro (mid-2014, 15-inch)
I use a mid-2014 15" MacBook Pro, one of the last great laptops Apple made - a functional keyboard, no Touch Bar, MagSafe, plenty of ports.
usesthis.com 10 Dec 2019
Loved Microsoft IntelliMouse
a classic wired Microsoft optical IntelliMouse - in my opinion, the best mouse ever made and the only one that’s ever felt comfortable in my hand.
usesthis.com 10 Dec 2019
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Loved IntelliMouse
a classic wired Microsoft optical IntelliMouse - in my opinion, the best mouse ever made and the only one that's ever felt comfortable in my hand.
usesthis.com 10 Dec 2019
Uses Google Colab
spending an increasing amount of my free time working with tools like Google Colab, Runway ML, TensorFlow, and Hugging Face to play around with machine-generated text, audio, imagery, and video.
usesthis.com 10 Dec 2019
Uses DigitalOcean
I host my sites on DigitalOcean and end up using vim in screen sessions on my droplets a bunch.
usesthis.com 10 Dec 2019
Uses VS Code
Lately, I'm using VS Code after a long stint with Atom.
usesthis.com 10 Dec 2019
Uses Feedly
I use Feedly to follow hundreds of RSS sources, subscribe to a couple dozen newsletters, and maintain a carefully-selected set of non-default subreddits to make Reddit tolerable.
usesthis.com 10 Dec 2019
Uses Notational Velocity
Notes go in Notational Velocity, to-do lists in Wunderlist.
usesthis.com 10 Dec 2019
Uses Figma
I also rely heavily on Dropbox, 1Password, an ancient copy of Photoshop, and Figma. Notes go in Notational Velocity, to-do lists in Wunderlist.
usesthis.com 10 Dec 2019
Uses 1Password
I also rely heavily on Dropbox, 1Password, an ancient copy of Photoshop, and Figma.
usesthis.com 10 Dec 2019
Liked Gutenberg
When I write for Waxy.org, I write directly in WordPress's new Gutenberg editor, which is now on par with Medium as a best-of-class writing environment for the web.
usesthis.com 10 Dec 2019
Uses Chrome
I primarily live in Chrome, but keep flirting with Firefox, and could see heading back full-time in the next few months.
usesthis.com 10 Dec 2019
Uses Backblaze
I'm currently running macOS Mojave, backed up with both Time Machine and SuperDuper to an external drive and BackBlaze to the cloud. Overkill maybe, but after a major drive crash a few years ago, I'm not taking any chances.
usesthis.com 10 Dec 2019
Uses SuperDuper
I'm currently running macOS Mojave, backed up with both Time Machine and SuperDuper to an external drive and BackBlaze to the cloud.
usesthis.com 10 Dec 2019
Uses iPhone 11
My phone is a brand-new iPhone 11, upgraded from my old iPhone 6S.
usesthis.com 10 Dec 2019
Uses Thunderbolt Display
When I'm home, I keep it plugged into a 27" Thunderbolt Display, because my eyes are garbage.
usesthis.com 10 Dec 2019
Loved MacBook Pro
I use a mid-2014 15" MacBook Pro, one of the last great laptops Apple made - a functional keyboard, no Touch Bar, MagSafe, plenty of ports.
usesthis.com 10 Dec 2019
Where they publish
Blog waxy.org His blog since 2002.
Link verified 4 Sept 2026.
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- qrsticks — scannable QR codes made of stick figures 20 Oct 2026
- Ghostmashers — Bill McClintock mashes up Ray Parker Jr. with a dozen other '80s songs 20 Oct 2026
- The Pudding finds "The Real Kevin Bacon" — a well-known actor became the new center of Hollywood in 2006, taking the crown from Gene Hackman 20 Oct 2026
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- ‘Reverse-Engineer Anything’ is the new wild west of AI — AI agents have hit the game decomp/recomp scene like a nuclear bomb 20 Oct 2026
- Pillowfort closing in December — the user-funded Tumblresque platform never fully recovered after suffering three months of downtime in 2021 20 Oct 2026
- (not) solitaire — Puzzmo made a "massively passively multiplayer solitaire," coincidental to 14 Oct 2026 solitairealonetogether.com
- How many shots are in the average movie today? — interesting analysis using shot boundary detection mapped against hand counts from the Cinemetrics project 13 Oct 2026
- Inside the failed fight to unionize at Double Fine — outstanding reporting from Rebekah Valentine with an accompanying long interview with Tim Schafer 10 Oct 2026
- Triple-A Minesweeper — Mike Lacher's action-packed AAA reboot of the Windows 3.11 classic 7 Oct 2026
- VECOS, a vector desktop OS for the Vectrex — from modder Jason Kopp, who also ported DOOM to his UVMC2 multicart 6 Oct 2026
- TV Simulator's TV Poetry — make a generative poem on any subject from short TV clips 5 Oct 2026
- StrawPage Explore — click "next site" to view a random personal retroweb-inspired website 1 Oct 2026
- Destroy Any Website — surprisingly satisfying, try 30 Sept 2026 destroy.spritefusion.com
- Solitaire Alone Together — Nolen Royalty's latest lets you play Windows 98 solitaire with the internet 22 Sept 2026
- Thinky Dailies — charming ever-changing collection of free daily puzzles, now in its fourth season 15 Sept 2026
- I Found Evidence Of My House Spinning — creepypasta in the form of a forum thread, don't miss the "what's new!" at the very end 15 Sept 2026
- 9/11 in Realtime — impressive archival project synchronizing TV broadcasts, radio traffic, pagers, newsgroups, and more 10 Sept 2026
- Modern Day Typographer — "Papyrus is a virus and restraint is the inoculum" 10 Sept 2026
- Usenet-Rewind — new commercial archive with deep full-text search of 982M posts going back to 1981 9 Sept 2026
- Grand Theft Automated License Plate Reader — Morry Kolman made a GTA V mod that adds 235 Flock cameras around Los Santos, earn cash by destroying them 9 Sept 2026
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