Sharing the journey of building the best dictation app for privacy and productivity. Slow grind, until it all moves fast. Learning, mistakes and all.
Why journaling feels hard, and how focusing on observation over performance, mundane details, and narrowing your focus can make it accessible. Inspired by What I Talk About When I Talk About Running.
An honest account of building a production macOS app with Claude Code—what works, what doesn't, and what it actually feels like. Five months, one person, one AI.
The interaction that isn't—push-to-talk, the 200ms grace period, text injection, and the icon that breathes. How we designed Yakki for disappearance.
Why we build software that should be invisible—and the hundred micro-decisions that make it happen. A brief post about designing for disappearance.
Why traditional note-taking fails and how thinking on paper, writing badly, compressing ruthlessly, and rebuilding from scratch, turns reading into real understanding.
Why most reading advice misses the point, and how connecting ideas, reading with different lenses, and engaging emotionally turns passive reading into lasting knowledge.
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