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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

TRANSMISSION served its purpose. Four and a half months later, time to move on. Over the Memorial Day long weekend I rebuilt the site, and the more useful story is the workflow: Claude Opus 4.7 did the design judgment, Codex on GPT-5.5 did the execution, and the /goal function let Codex run autonomously for close to four hours at a stretch.

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I Rolled Back 2,724 Lines After One AI Audio Change Broke Production

I pushed what should have been an upgrade to my podcast platform's voice system. Six days and several commits later, I deleted 2,724 lines of code and rolled back to what worked. Here is what happened and what it taught me about testing production AI changes.

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