Shooting With Restraint: iPhone, Lightroom, And A Component Mindset
Photography got way better for me when I dropped the gear chase and treated images like components in a system: shot on an iPhone, finished in Lightroom, used on the web.
Tools
Honest takes on the tools I use daily. What earned its place in my stack, what I dropped, and why most "best of" lists are useless. 28 posts
Killing CalendarBridge and RankPill: An Honest Audit of My Setapp Stack
I killed CalendarBridge and RankPill, then audited my entire Setapp stack. This is how I trimmed the bloat without losing any real capability.
The Tower Workflow That Keeps My Mac Studio And MacBook Air Perfectly In Sync
How I keep a Mac Studio and a MacBook Air in sync using Tower, Git and a few strict rules, so I can jump between desk and couch without merge hell.
Mac Studio As My Daily AI Workhorse (And How I Actually Use The GPU)
How I use a Mac Studio as a daily AI development box, where Apple Silicon shines for AI workloads, and how to avoid the usual GPU bottlenecks.
Notion vs Obsidian for a Solo Developer: What I Actually Use
After 2 years using Notion and Obsidian side by side, I stopped pretending they compete. Here is what I genuinely use each one for as a solo developer.
How I Automated My Ghost Member Welcome Flow With Make.com
I wired Ghost into Make.com so new members hit a proper conditional welcome flow instead of a single bland email. Here is the exact scenario, modules, and gotchas.
Make.com Error Handling Patterns That Actually Work
The worst Make.com scenarios are not the ones that crash. They are the ones that silently stop working. Here is how I design every scenario to make failure loud and obvious.
How I Evaluate a New Dev Tool (My 3‑Question Filter)
I run every new dev tool through the same 3‑question filter before it touches my real workflow. Here is how Cursor, Tower, and SecondsPro managed to earn their place.
The Make.com Modules I Actually Use Every Week (And The Ones I Killed)
I spent a few weekends brutally auditing my Make.com scenarios. These are the modules that actually earn their place every week, and the ones I ripped out as pure complexity.
15 Minutes A Day: The Compounding ROI Of Relearning Touch Typing At 57
At 57, I relearned touch typing with 15 minutes a day on TypingClub. The speed bump was nice, but the real ROI came from treating my keyboard as a serious interface problem.
Why I Still Rely On Tower For Git In The Era Of AI Coding
AI tools can write the CSS and scaffold components, but they do not own my Git history. I still rely on Tower because visual Git control is non-negotiable.
How I Use AI Agents As The Operating System Of My Digital Life
I stopped treating AI like a magic intern and started treating it like an operating system. This is how Littlebird and SureThing now run most of my digital life.