Synesis
Email that lives on your machine first. Windows and Android, SQLite on device, sync in the background via Microsoft Graph or plain IMAP. Your mail, your copy — no mystery cloud required to read your inbox.
About SynesisLiveBytes is where the work lives.
Leading and making were never opposites — a studio for local-first software, practical tools, and notes from building them.
Organon
Aristotle's organon was the toolkit for clear thinking — logic, categories, the works. Organon here is the same idea, applied a little loosely: instruments for a full life and real craft. Instruments, not vibes.
thePlan
A planning system for work that has layers and days that have limits. thePlan brings projects, tasks, and calendar constraints together so I can decide what fits, see what doesn’t, and adjust when the day changes. It’s the system I use, with further development shaped by that use.
Explore thePlan →Tech leadership was never the opposite of making things.
Built by Trish Putnam · software, music, theater, and a few other threads on the side.
Notes from the studio
craft
I knew I would want it for something someday
LiveBytes began as a blog about earning an IT degree online. I stopped writing there after school, but I kept the domain until I understood what else belonged in it.
AI
The login button absolutely works
A model built a good experimental site in minutes, then spent more than an hour fixing a login button that had worked all along.