Notes · 6 entries

Notes from the workshop.

Design decisions, build logs, and the occasional technical tangent. Not on a schedule.

A menu-bar app from scratch

MenuBarExtra is shorter than you think and weirder than you'd like. Here is the shape that worked.

Notes on building a diff view for plain text without rebuilding git.

Checkboxes turn habits into chores. A stamp is heavier, slower, more deliberate — and that turns out to matter.

The grid behind a calendar app is almost the whole app. Here's how I drew, threw away, and redrew six versions.

Most Tapsy users never open the app. That sounds like a failure until you realise it's the point.

Eight weekends, two TestFlight builds, one rejected metadata. A small ship log.