Journal

A home screen widget on iOS is not a small version of your app. It is a separate process with its own hard memory ceiling, and the fastest way to find that ceiling is to cache a photo at the wrong size. Pulso, my watch collection app, now has six widget faces on the home screen, and most of the…

Pulso, my watch-collection app, has been iOS and web for months. This week it got a third platform, and the actual spec surprised me: Android didn't need to exist, it needed to agree. Five tabs, one set of decisions already made. Watches, Shortlist, Wear, Roadmap and Insights all had to read the same live API as iOS and reach the…

Turning a single-user app into a multi-user one is mostly not an authentication problem. Pulso, my watch collection tracker, had working accounts, magic-link sign-in and real sessions for days before I noticed that every route behind that login still read and wrote one shared file. The gate was real. Everything behind it was not. The practical version of that sentence:…

Getting CPadel ready to launch CPadel has been sitting in pre-launch mode for a while -- brand assets decided, a deposit paid, a tracker retired in favour of Orbit. This stretch was mostly the unglamorous work of getting the details right before anything goes live: deciding which of two near-identical logo files is actually canonical, reconciling exactly when the deposit…

Pulso, my watch collection app, had an AI budget that any one user could spend on behalf of everyone else. I found it on 30 July while wiring up the chat advisor, and fixing it turned into the actual work of the week: making an app I built for exactly one person safe for a second one. The bug was…