ONLINEREV · 2026-06-26§ BLOG4 ENTRIES
§ Field notes
Journal.
Updates, articles, and announcements from the workshop.
§ 01
Entries
- 2026-06-19/2026-06-19-self-hosted-evernote-replacement-joplin-ai-search
I Replaced a $250/yr Evernote Subscription With a Mac Mini That Answers Questions About My Notes
Evernote wanted $250 a year. So I moved 12,690 notes to self-hosted Joplin on a Mac mini, then built an AI that actually answers questions across all of them — local embeddings, automatic voice transcription, native apps, ~$0 a month. Here's the whole build.
- 2026-04-13/2026-04-13-when-your-automation-pipeline-saves-you-from-a-hard-deadline-you-didnt-know-existed
When Your Automation Pipeline Saves You From a Hard Deadline You Didn't Know Existed
Three API deprecation deadlines in one week. An SDK requirement with a hard cutoff. A competitor's major update that reframes my positioning. All caught by agents, not me.
- 2026-03-31/2026-03-31-when-your-ai-agents-do-the-worrying-for-you
When Your AI Agents Do the Worrying For You
A look at how automated intelligence pipelines caught three potential disasters this week — and what that means for solo dev productivity.
- 2026-03-20/welcome
Welcome to Slick Engineering
Introducing our new website and what's ahead for Slick Engineering & Consulting.