Engineering, craft, and the occasional calendar collision.
Synesis
On-device truth, background sync, and the quiet relief of owning your inbox copy. Or: why the spinning circle doesn’t get to gatekeep mail I already have.
Studio
I’ve spent a lot of years involved with building software under other people’s logos. Fine work. Also: you eventually notice the logo isn’t the interesting part, whatever the company would like everyone to believe. LiveBytes is where the work lives when it’s mine: local-first tools, a product house called Organon, and a place to write without pretending every post is a product launch. This is Notes from the studio: the public bench.