Subscriptions fund the fragility they pay for. One constraint for software that needs neither.

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SwiftUI views rendered as Final Cut Pro effects is the sort of sentence that makes you stop and check you read it right. Using [SwiftUIFX](https://github.com/finnvoor/SwiftUIFX), the experiment builds SwiftUI components and renders them frame by frame onto video footage, which is not the usual plugin path most of us have in our heads. It’s scrappy and exploratory in the best way. Even if our day job never touches Final Cut Pro, seeing SwiftUI escape the app window is a healthy reminder that our UI tools are more portable than we tend to assume.

The last one.

Day 99 of 100. One more to go. Yesterday I asked for your questions, today I answer them: when I actually started enjoying this challenge (spoiler: day 23), whether I ever batch recorded to take a da...

Stash, a read-it-later app that reads articles to you: https://juststash.app/ It has no settings screen. No onboarding either. That's on purpose. In this video I walk through why: what happens when ...

Stash, a read-it-later app that reads articles to you: https://juststash.app/ Part 97 of 100. Good text-to-speech models are usually rented. They run on someone else's server, cost money per word, an...

A new generation of collaborative software that allows users to retain ownership of their data.

Stash is a new kind of a read/listen later app that combines reading and listening to articles using on-device TTS. The whole app is offline-first and built to last.

Stash is a local-first text-to-speech app. Paste any article, get a podcast-style audio file, listen on the go. No account, no server, no subscription. Our first TestFlight testers hit a wall we shou...

I've been building Stash as an iPhone app, but it compiles as a universal binary. Today I run it on the Mac for the first time and fix the ugliest parts live: the player, the background, navigation wi...

Follow-up to my last video on Siri in iOS 27. I've been adding AppIntents and AppSchemas to more apps and noticed a few things Apple's docs don't make obvious. The big one: exposing your data to Spot...

You can write Final Cut Pro effects in SwiftUI. Not Motion templates, not Objective-C plugin work. Actual SwiftUI views, rendered one frame at a time, straight onto your video. I found a library call...

Most software you use today is not built to last. You subscribe, you pay rent, and the app gets worse every year. But subscriptions exist for a real reason, and the reason is more interesting than "co...

Yesterday's Stash reveal got a much better response than I expected, so today I'm going deeper on the details: how sync works without an account, what happens when you turn on battery saving mode, why...

After weeks of teasing, here it is. Stash is a read it later and listen later app my homie Matt and I built together. Save any article from the share sheet, and Stash turns it into audio you can liste...

On the Mac you can download an app from a website and install it. No store, no human approval, no guidelines. Apple still checks it for malware first, and if that app ever turns out to be dangerous th...

Every decision Obsidian makes to respect its users costs them money. No upfront paywall means lower conversions. No tracking means no ad revenue and no growth metrics to optimize against. No account m...

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After three months of iterating, Monologue's dictation indicator is completely new. Instead of a floating microphone that sits in your way, there's now a small dot that lives right next to your text ...

I need an icon before I can ship a TestFlight, and I have almost no time today. So here's the whole thing start to finish: rough the logo out in Sketch, export the SVG, drop it into Apple's Icon Compo...

A 168MHz chip, 16MB of RAM, and a screen that can only show black or white. The Playdate is the most limited machine I own and it's the one that makes me most creative. In this one I walk through the...

Small additions like sound effects and haptic feedback can make an app feel alive. In this video I walk through a few apps that do it well, show how I've used it in Futureland and Kompressor, and poin...

Damon Albarn, creator of the Gorillaz, treats his life like one long college course. This semester, ballet. Next semester, something else. I love this framing, and it maps perfectly onto my 100 videos...

Siri in iOS 27 beta 6 can now search across Files, Messages, Photos, and Notes. I tested it on my real data: my Obsidian vault, old notes, message history, and photos. Some of it worked shockingly wel...

Your Instagram profile is not a website. If someone looks you up and hits a login wall, they leave. If an AI chatbot looks you up and hits a login wall, you do not exist. I make the case for owning y...