Making

Notes from building apps and web tools: what broke 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.
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.