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I'm a designer who can't code, building web tools and apps with AI.
When something breaks I write down what it was and what fixed it.

Yesterday's most used AI model has no known makerMakingAugust 27, 2026Twelve AI models, sized by how much work they did yesterday. Heavy ones knock light ones over the wall. Built with Three.js, no credits spent.
From 3D printers to ebooks: what you can make off screenTechAugust 25, 2026What you make doesn't have to stay on a screen. 3D printing, single-board computers, print goods, ebooks, and the servers behind an app.
Six ways to get paid from an appTechAugust 25, 2026In-app purchase and ads aren't the only options. Six ways to collect money, including the one that skips the store's cut entirely.
Where you can publish apps, games and goods, and what it costsTechAugust 25, 2026Apps aren't the only option. Games, browser extensions, templates, bots. Twelve places you can publish, and the entry fee for each.
Barometer, compass, NFC: ten things your phone already sensesTechAugust 25, 2026App ideas usually start from what a phone can sense. Past the screen and the camera, here is what else is inside, and what each one is good for.
Eight kinds of AI to put in an app that are not chatbotsTechAugust 25, 2026Ask what AI can do and most people picture a chat box. There are eight other kinds you can put in an app, and most of them run on the phone.
Five ways to put AI in an appTechAugust 25, 2026Calling an API and training a model are different jobs with different price tags. Five ways to add AI, with what each costs and what blocks it.
Work that used to cost credits, done without a GPUResourcesAugust 25, 2026Background removal, transcription, captions, font building, a game engine: eight jobs that ran free on a Windows laptop with no graphics card.
targetSdk 36 deadline passed: the Play Console extensionTechAugust 25, 2026What targetSdk is, the deadline that already passed, and the extension option. The fix is two lines, and then it isn't.
Uploading the file took five minutes. The rest took half a dayMakingAugust 19, 2026What you actually click in Play Console: ten declarations, app or game, three sets of screenshots, and the submit button that never reached review.
Four pieces of paperwork before shipping an app in KoreaMakingAugust 19, 2026Business registration, a free D-U-N-S number, a phone check that only worked as a call: what Korea asked of me before Google Play let me publish.
Android apps: four things you only find out on a real phoneMakingAugust 18, 2026I rebuilt the APK four times. Status bar icons, the back button, a cropped icon, the space at the top: four things a computer screen never shows you.
A designer who cannot read code built a web app in a dayMakingAugust 17, 2026Copy and paste got tedious. I built a scratchpad in three hours. Two months later it's a site with thirty tools, built by a designer who can't code.