Writing
Thoughts on software, technology, and whatever else I find interesting.
Release
TrailTold is on Google Play in the US and the iPhone build is in TestFlight. Build 1.0.0+15, in a 20% Android rollout, is the first to carry a $4.99 Park Pass. Nothing is for sale on iPhone yet.
October 7, 2026 · 6 min read
Release
Oct 7, 2026 · 7 min
SquareLog Mobile 1.8.1 is the fourth production release on Google Play since 1.5.2 made the listing public on 2026-08-20. Apple rejected the iOS 1.8.1 resubmission, and a native 2.0.0 build has been waiting for App Review since 2026-10-01.
Release
Oct 7, 2026 · 6 min
On 2026-10-07 I cut 20261007_synap_Release after a review found an iOS crash on any network error and lessons the server never locked. Here is what works at getsynap.app today, what is still internal, and what is left.
Release
Oct 7, 2026 · 7 min
Extension 0.4.0, merged on 2026-09-11, dropped the second Whatnot account HaulCall needed to see a seller's sales. The Web Store now serves 0.4.5. What shipped around it, and where the phone apps stand.
Engineering
Oct 7, 2026 · 9 min
TrailTold 1.0.0+14 offered each park as its own in-app product. Five parks came to 20 console objects. The same day I replaced them with one $4.99 consumable and a server-side credit ledger that decides which park a pass opens.
Engineering
Oct 7, 2026 · 7 min
Synap's SwiftUI app sits on a Kotlin Multiplatform module. The first real Xcode build failed on four Kotlin/Native names the Swift had guessed wrong. Six weeks later a review found the Swift catch blocks could never see a network error. Both fixes started in SynapShared.h.
Engineering
Oct 7, 2026 · 9 min
Until Synap PR #244 on 2026-10-07, an anonymous curl per module returned every paid lesson, answer keys included. The apps drew the paywall and the server never checked. Here is the rule that replaced it, the 402 the clients branch on, and the same check for your API.
Engineering
Oct 7, 2026 · 8 min
HaulCall PR #381 sat green and unmerged from 2026-08-24 to 2026-08-28 while my notes called the bug fixed. Merging it then turned main red against a PR merged three hours earlier. The gh and git checks I run now.
Engineering
Oct 7, 2026 · 9 min
HaulCall dropped accepted Whatnot offers in two shows in a row and nothing in the product noticed. The fix was one manifest rule. The follow-up was a counter for sale-shaped frames no rule reads, so the next gap shows up in the popup before a seller has to report it.
Engineering
Oct 7, 2026 · 9 min
Between 2026-10-03 and 2026-10-07 I found three production deploys that had stopped moving with no red deploy run. A drift guard read "skipped" as "failed", a release guard read Dependabot's commit, and a green job shipped to a server the domain had left.