Stories

Notes from building the library, the apps and the agent. The numbers are measured, the mistakes are included, and the source is one click away.

From a 2023 key-value-value page to a library, five native apps and a coding agent. What this site is for.

November 12, 2026

Why anneal's logo looks like a solid amber blob, and how a rendering bug became a family of marks.

November 10, 2026

Three memory optimizations, two reverted experiments and the discipline of measuring on the real database.

November 5, 2026

An honest look at the least fashionable part of tie, including the sentence where it admits SQLite would have been easier.

November 1, 2026

What a whole-repo review found in tie, and why every fix shipped with a test that failed first.

October 20, 2026