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The One Question That Killed an Entire Curriculum Architecture in a Week
The product I shipped in April was right about the engine. The product I settled on in June was right about the spine. In between: two complete curriculum rewrites, a framework that killed an architecture in a week, and the question I wish I had been asking since March.
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Offline Mode for My AI App Didn't Need AI. It Needed Boring.
I almost built a clever, AI-specific offline mode for DIALØGUE's iOS app. Then I asked a more boring question — what does iOS already give me? — and the real work turned out to be resisting the urge to be clever. Here's the standard, unglamorous machinery behind "download an episode and listen on a plane," and why boring was the senior choice.
Native Isn't a Skin: Rebuilding DIALØGUE's iOS App
I shipped DIALØGUE's iOS app as a port of the web product, then rebuilt it natively — three tabs, lock-screen audio, a synced transcript, resilient offline, and Siri — because a web app shrunk to a phone is still a web app.
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I Rebuilt My Site With Two AI Models: Opus for Design, Codex for Execution
No. 05MarketingWhat Publicis Is Really Buying for $2.2B: Notes on the LiveRamp Deal
No. 06AI6 Months, 3 Game Projects, 0 Shipped
No. 07AII Rolled Back 2,724 Lines After One AI Audio Change Broke Production
No. 08AII'm Using Claude Code for Everything Else But Coding
No. 09AITwo years after my 7 Andrew Ng courses: the 2026 path I'd actually take
No. 10AIThe Code Was the Easy Part of Shipping Prova
No. 11AIWhat Agencies Actually Need From AI Is Not More Content
No. 12AII Tried to Clip My Course into a YouTube Video. Here's Why I Rebuilt It Instead.
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