After months of delay, I am pleased to announce the implementation of email newsletters at Wasya.Co and Piousbox.com

The short answer is - I think it used to be much better. To be fair, doing marketing and obtaining new clients has always been difficult - arguably, it is more difficult than doing actual technology work. But in the past I think it was more rational and more usable.

So Vitalik, the guy who wrote the Ethereum protocol, recently posted this, which I feel I can comment on...

I want to write first about my admiration of ducks, and swans by extension. They are the animals capable of flying (birds), and they also swim. They also walk on land. Ducks, and also swans, are therefore truly all-terrain, all-element animals: they've conquered earth, water and air. (And they're metabolic, living organisms so we'll grant them the command of "fire" in the sense of metabolic oxidation.)

You may be familiar with the saying, "duck typing". The idea is that if something walks like a duck, talks like a duck... then it may be a duck.

I've been in awe at some news I've been reading. Because they have been very powerfully written. It is like reading a good novel - which I no longer do, between reading news, documentation, and writing (which is to say, not reading), I no longer read what I know is fiction. Too bad though - some of the books in my past have been excellent. Take William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, my favorite american sci-fi authors so far.

Point and call is an managerial tool that is very simple to implement and it goes a long way in ensuring both safety of operations, and correctness of code.

The android app for learning jiu-jitsu has been released.

With the assistance of AI, we created this logo for a client project.

Generated concept art.

With AI assistance, we have created this logo for a client website.

I was asked to contribute to a tattoo design. The client wanted a tarot card tattooed on his forearm. I collected several proposals, and upon receiving approval, edited the selected picture to be well-suited for a tattoo. Originally, the client wanted it in color. But one of the iterations I did looks so good in black and white that he agreed that it was the best one. The final image was the black-and-white one, with color replaced by a pattern.

We are proud to announce that WasyaCo has deployed its own copy of the free and open-source libretranslate service.

2026-01-05

A customer watched their referral numbers climb steadily for months—until it suddenly slowed down.

By the time we spoke, the frustration was clear. The team had invested real effort into building momentum, so the hiccup felt personal. Their first order of business was to regain control by making a few adjustments to the program.

As we walked through what had changed, the issue came into sharp focus. The program itself hadn’t failed, no. But the attitude around it had shifted.

Functionality update: micros_email now allows email templates to respond_inline .

This means that if there is an automatic action on a received email, the sender will receive their own message that the system responds to. An automatic email responder that uses an email template, carries over the history of the conversation to the recipient. This option is enabled by default. 

Enabling this option should greatly clarify why there is an autoresponder, and help the sender take the right action, which in most cases is to fill out a web form.