Notes

My side project for texting work to agents on my Mac now shows up in my phone's share sheet. I can send it a screenshot or a link and tell it what to do with it. Much faster than describing things.

Opening Myne up to the UK and Australia. People there were being told it isn't available in their region. Next up is showing values in local currency, so it feels like it was made for them.

Cloudtape 1.1.6 is out for testing. Tap an album sleeve and it opens full screen. Artist pages get real photos. There's a colour strip for picking your own accent, and AirPlay is coming too.

Building a small iPhone app so my agents have to ask before they do anything that matters. A buzz on my phone, one tap to approve. It's starting to feel like the right way to leave them running.

Myne now sends a nudge to people who haven't opened it in a while. I'm holding a few back on purpose so I can tell if the email actually brings anyone back.

Made a same-day reel for a band's surprise EP, clips from all three videos, posted to the feed, the story and TikTok drafts. Release Wave is getting good at turning a drop into a post in an afternoon.

Countersign is a new idea I'm chasing: an assistant on your phone that does real errands in a browser, and stops to ask before anything that spends money or acts in your name. First build is headed to TestFlight.

Myne now works properly on the iPhone Duo's outer display, and I've got the next round of under-the-hood upgrades merged and tested on both iPhone and Android.

Cloudtape now has a full-screen album sleeve. Tap the art and it fills the screen, with smoother motion into and out of Now Playing. It's in testers' hands this week. Read more →

Side project: Denver tourist shirts that look refined instead of the usual mountain silhouette. Etched animals in little crests. I put a few front and back concepts together and I'm showing them around.

Myne's bulk add is getting solid. Pick a pile of photos, mark them all public if you want, and edit lots of items at once. It works the same way in Browse and in collections now.

Adding a pile of items to Myne at once is a lot smoother now. You can pick a cover photo, reorder, and combine photos into one item. Public collection pages got a cleaner two-column look too.

Making short talking-head reels for Release Wave from one take on my phone. I record, an agent trims it, adds captions and a song underneath, and I just approve and post.

Myne lets you swap or add photos on an item after you've made it. Adding stuff is cleaner too: you pick one item or several first, then shoot or pull from your library. Read more →

Cloudtape artist pages now show a short bio, so you know who you're listening to. It still shows with no connection. Next I'm mocking up artist photos and upcoming shows.

Myne has bulk edit now. Select a bunch of items, then move them, drop them in a collection, change tags or categories, or flip them public or private. Same on the web and in the app.

My home setup is learning to fix itself. When a background job dies, it tries a restart first and only pings me, with a few buttons, if that fails. It brought back something that had been dead for ten days.

Release Wave now puts together a weekly reel of the new records on its own. It opens on a catchy line over the art, and each record shows its genres and who it's for fans of. I just approve it from my phone.

Cloudtape has an updates page now. It shows what changed in each version, with little sketches of the new CarPlay and big-library work. I want people to see the app moving.

Release Wave reels got a new look today. The weekly picks now open on the artist name with the album art on a yellow tag, and the release's own music video plays muted behind it.

Release Wave is getting a merch shop. A few tees, printed on demand, so nothing sits in my closet. I'm ordering samples first to see how they look on a real shirt.

Cloudtape's CarPlay got a lot more useful today. There's an Up Next queue, a letter picker for big libraries, and Recent grouped by month. I want it to feel good in the car.

Working on short talking-head videos for Release Wave. I record myself, and the album art, facts and similar artists show up around me. I want a weekly video habit that doesn't eat my week.

Cloudtape now copes with huge music libraries. A friend with tens of thousands of songs found it sluggish, so I reworked how it reads them. It's out to beta testers now, with a public link to join.

Designing a pickleball club tee this week. Small chest print on the front, a big illustrated back, and a dozen colour versions side by side until one feels right. Picking from a board beats guessing.

Planning a t-shirt giveaway on Instagram for Release Wave. I'm also hunting for a video format that fits new music, since something comes out every Friday and that's a free calendar.

Release Wave is getting a concert history. It deals you shows from the cities you've lived in and asks if you were there. Then it builds a public page of every show you've been to. Read more →

The Release Wave weekly email now shows what's new on the site and which releases are coming up. I also cleaned up how it looks so it reads better on a phone.

Working on Stub Book for Release Wave. It helps you piece together every show you've been to, and it starts with venues in the big cities. I might open up the venue data for anyone to use.

The Release Wave newsletter goes weekly now. I write the intro by texting a bot from my phone, and it tidies the typos and keeps it sounding like me.

Prototyping a way for Release Wave fans to rebuild their concert history. It walks you through shows near you and asks if you were there. Like a ticket stub book you never had to keep.

Working on a way to start Claude Code sessions on my home Mac from my phone. Pick up an idea on the couch, kick off the work, and let the machine at home do it. Locked down tight first.

Working on a Release Wave hat. Black cap, white thread, a skull wearing headphones on the front and the name across the back. Getting the files ready so I can hold a real one soon.

People in Korea and Mexico have been asking about Myne, but right now it's only available in two countries. First step is opening it up. Then making it work in more languages.

Starting a Release Wave hat. A small patch on the front, a circle of text around an icon. Trying skulls with headphones, hearts, music notes. Still hunting for the one that feels right.

Cloudtape now opens straight to your library. No spinner, no empty screen first. It's an offline first player, so it never should have made you wait in the first place. Shipped to both stores today.

My little Mac Mini now reads through the day's app errors and decides which ones are worth sending an agent to fix. Today it picked one, a branch came back, and I shipped it. Still rough, but I like it.

Started a new side project for people who sell on a few marketplaces at once. When something sells in one place, it comes down everywhere else. Mocks are up, and I picked a better name.

Cloudtape 1.1.0 is with the stores now, iPhone and Android both. Buying the upgrade now picks your sync back up, and reviewers get a sample library with everything unlocked.

Myne now sends a gentle nudge to people who sign up and never add anything. The empty first screen is where most people drop off, so I'm trying to get them past it.

Built myself a private ops tool Claude can talk to. It publishes little preview pages I can open anywhere, and tells me how my machines are doing. Less reliance on artifacts, more of it mine.

Working on getting more people from the first photo to the end of the first item in Myne. New tour, a gentler first add, and trials on both stores. Both builds are in review now.

Myne can now look at your photos and fill in the blanks on a listing draft for you. It only touches empty fields, and you confirm its guesses. Listing a pile of stuff should feel a lot less like data entry. Read more →

Myne now has a web side for selling in bulk. Sign in, see all your items, fill details down a grid, and preview what would be listed before anything goes out. Phone-sized cards too. Read more →

You can now connect FixPoint to Claude and manage your rental requests by just talking to it. I like where this is heading: less clicking around, more telling an assistant what needs fixing. Read more →

FixPoint links now show a real preview when you share them. A contractor sees what the job is before they ever log in. Small thing, but it makes the first tap feel less like a cold ask.

Myne Plus is going unlimited on items. I'm also planning how to list one thing on several marketplaces from the app, so selling stops meaning retyping everything.

Cloudtape 1.1.0 is on its way to TestFlight. It has an Up Next queue, smart playlists, listening stats, and storage limits so downloads don't quietly eat your phone.

Release Wave's updates page now drafts itself every week. I get a short summary on my phone and tap publish or reject. Nothing goes live without me, but I don't have to write it either.

Cloudtape is getting a real play queue and smart playlists. Playlists that fill themselves from what you added or played lately. Starting to feel like a proper player, not just a file browser.

Started building a bug watcher for my apps. Twice a week it collects errors from production, picks the ones that matter, and starts a fix on its own. I'd like to stop being the one who notices. Read more →

Myne 1.3.7 is in review on both app stores. Listings you've already made now show their status and let you edit them. Fewer dead ends when you're sorting through a pile of stuff.

Cloudtape is on the App Store now, and I'm getting the Android version ready for Google Play. Same idea on both: your own music files, offline first, nothing recommending you anything.

My site has a notes page now: a daily feed of short updates on what I'm building, with tags and search. It writes a first draft from my day's work, and I decide what goes live.

Cloudtape 1.0 is live on the App Store and the first update is already in review. There's a small sample library built in, so you can try it before connecting Dropbox.

Started a moodboard tool for doing design work with Claude. We pin references and write a brief together, and it checks it actually gets the look before designing anything.

Built a listening history page for Release Wave: upload your Spotify export and see years of listening laid out, with Last.fm plays merged in.

Wrote about getting Claude to lay out a cookbook in Affinity. Most of the layout is scripted. The agent only clicks through the few steps that can't be.

Cloudtape works in CarPlay. You can browse albums and artists from the dash, and it took about a day.

One agent split three Cloudtape features across three helpers working side by side: lyrics, volume levelling and a sleep timer. All three merged cleanly.

Cloudtape scrobbles to Last.fm now, even offline. Plays queue up and send later, and you can take back a scrobble you didn't mean.

I run agent sessions on three Macs now. A handoff command writes a brief, starts a session on another machine, and checks that it picked up where I left off.

Cloudtape plays albums without a gap between tracks now. Live records and mixes finally sound the way they should.

Watched the finished parody infomercial for Myne and hated it. Then I noticed almost every ad idea I had was the same parody joke. Starting over with straight-faced hooks.

Cloudtape is in TestFlight. Music already on the phone sits in the same library as the Dropbox stuff, so an album doesn't show up twice.

New project: Cloudtape, a music player for my own files. It syncs from Dropbox, plays offline, and looks more like a shelf of old jazz sleeves than a streaming app.

Been making AI video ads for Myne for a few weeks: real app footage cut with absurd generated scenes. I look over every storyboard on a review page before any video gets rendered.

Asked for a leaderboard of the best Myne collections. The agent pushed back: rankings get gamed, and nobody wants a map of whose house has the good stuff. Shipped a calm browse page instead.

RevCogs users can show off their record collection on a public page now. It's opt-in. An audit caught that my first version had it switched on by default.

Feedback on RevCogs now kicks off an agent. It tries a fix on a branch and drafts a reply for me to read. The first run turned one request straight into a shipped feature.

Collections landed in Myne: group your stuff by type, like tees, cards or vinyl, and share each one as its own page. Research to shipped build took about two days of agent swarms.

Swapped a heavy self-hosted social scheduler for a tiny one I wrote. It only ever had to post reels for one account, and it was eating a big chunk of the Mac mini's memory.

Before a Myne release ships, an agent now builds the real app, runs it in a simulator, and sends me screenshots before I hit release.

Wrote up my home agent setup in three posts: the nightly repo agent, the memory service, and letting an agent drive the browser I'm already signed into.

The band tee app is in TestFlight. Snap a photo and it guesses the shirt. The bulk-add screen took six versions before adding a stack of shirts felt quick.

Wrote a Claude Code skill for letting one strong model plan the work and hand it out to a team of helper agents. Its first job planned a whole photo-cropping feature in waves.

New side project: an app for collecting band tees. The idea is a crowd-built catalog of every design and printing, so bootlegs stay separate from the real thing.

Made a little feedback tool for design reviews. A reviewer clicks any part of the page and leaves a note, then an agent picks it up, fixes it and marks it done.

Release Wave has a public page of upcoming releases now, with filters and a player that starts a preview in one click. It's the raw list before we pick favourites.

Release Wave now goes looking for new music every night across a dozen sources and drops the promising stuff into a playlist. Curating is back to just listening.

I'm juggling five projects with a handful of agent sessions each and kept losing my place. Started a small personal memory service: I toss notes in, ask questions later, get answers with sources.

Myne works properly offline now. Add things in a basement with no signal and they show up everywhere once you're back online, with no duplicates.

Myne can scan a barcode now. Point it at a book, a LEGO box or a game and the add form fills itself in.

Release Wave makes its own short videos now. New releases get cut into vertical reels, grouped by scene, and scheduled out a few times a week without me touching them.

A nightly agent now reads every one of my repos and rewrites the notes that tell other agents how each project works. It commits the changes and sends me a summary before I'm up.

Left an agent looping on RevCogs overnight with a list of things to review. Woke up to twenty small polish commits: cleaner type, proper mobile layouts, bigger tap targets.

Built one small notifier for all my projects. Deploys, app builds and long jobs all ping my phone now, with a link to the real live site instead of some preview.

The Mac mini in the closet is where my agents live now. I name a repo in a chat message from my phone and a fresh Claude Code session starts working on it.

Myne lets you make items public now and share one link to a gallery of them. It started as a mock screen and turned into the feature I show people first.

Release Wave has a new kind of post: staff picks of older albums we've gone back to. Each one expires on its own, so the homepage stays fresh without anyone cleaning up.

Redesigned my site from scratch and finally gave it a blog. The first posts are about running a pile of coding agents at once and what I took away from an AI conference.