21 Oct 2026
One Knot: untangle what’s next
Some projects begin with a clear brief. Others begin with six thoughts at once.
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NEWS, PROGRESS, AND RELEASES
Build notes from the Workbench, release news from The Window, and honest reports from the distance between “it runs” and “other people should install it.”
16 Oct 2026
From Salad to Aviary: How I Named Three Apps and Lost My Mind
Writing the code took weeks. Finding names nobody else had taken took longer. Every developer knows the stages of building an app. First there&
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21 Jul 2026
The cucumber closes the loop
The fourth Mac app is connecting project costs, bills, incoming money, and final invoicing—carefully, because money dislikes improvisation.
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21 Jul 2026
card&board has become daily infrastructure
The private shipped app now plans the work that builds the other products—which is a rather convincing acceptance test.
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21 Jul 2026
Aerial View now backs up on exit
A real misclick exposed a missing recovery layer. Aerial View now creates a database backup automatically whenever the app exits normally.
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21 Jul 2026
IO: localhost will be free and open source
IO: localhost will be free, signed, notarized, and open source—an inspectable first release with a deliberately clear support boundary.
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