Herman's blog
Hi I'm Herman Martinus. I'm a maker of things, rider of bikes, and hiker of mountains.
- Posts
- 95 from 16 Sep 2019 to 27 Oct 2026
- Posting
- monthly (16 in the last year)
- Kind
- personal blog
- Feed
- https://herman.bearblog.dev/feed/
2026 13
2025 22
- Discovery and AI
- Grow slowly, stay small
- Messing with bots
- Aggressive bots ruined my weekend
- Attending MicroConf Europe 2025
- Smartphones and being present
- PIRACYKILLS
- Miscellaneous updates
- Slow social media
- If Apple cared about privacy
- Bear is now source-available
- The ROI of exercise
- Digital hygiene: Passwords
- Digital hygiene: Notifications
- Digital hygiene: Emails
- Nerding out about heaters
- Yes, I will have coffee with you
- The Great Scrape
- The sound of silence
- The Bear Manifesto
- Active rest
- Bear Blog question challenge
2024 14
- Forced to upgrade
- How I build things
- On being a great gift-giver
- Upcoming changes to the discovery feed
- Cities need more trees
- Plain text journaling
- How the internet became shit
- Semantic AJAX-HTML
- Why Pictures
- The future of self-driving
- AI tutoring; what works?
- How I learn (making games for the Playdate)
- The two kinds of writing
- On goal-setting
2023 13
- How Bear does analytics with CSS
- Teaching tax in school
- How I stay motivated as a solo-creator
- The creative agency of small projects
- The Frustration Loop
- The chaotic beauty of street art
- Passwords are fine
- A case for socks with toes
- The Apple Vision Pro and the future of workspaces
- The chatbot creator
- Will AI kill blogging?
- The ChatGPT vs Bear Blog spam war
- On writing regularly
2022 14
- Building software to last forever
- Don’t kill your darlings
- Roundabouts improve cities for everyone
- Where links go to die
- 30 thoughts on turning 30
- Thoughts on buying a car
- The best investment
- A better ranking algorithm
- Observations on 6 years of journaling
- The economics of motorcycle safety
- On running a blogging platform
- Meditations on riding through the desert
- My password sharing mini-project
- The definitive Otter trail pack list