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PostLens 2 is live: a more complete photo studio

PostLens 2 is available for iPhone and iPad with focused editing, on-device retouching, and private planning. Instagram publishing awaits Meta production approval.

Oct 25, 20263 min read

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Oct 25, 2026

PostLens 2 is live: a more complete photo studio

PostLens 2 is live on iPhone and iPad. Here is what you can use now, and why direct Instagram publishing remains unavailable.

iOS
SwiftUI

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Deep Dive

Sep 25, 2026

Open-sourcing authentication without sharing accounts

A reusable authentication foundation for Cloudflare apps, with email codes, passkeys, and separate accounts for every product.

Authentication
Cloudflare Workers

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Deep Dive

Sep 24, 2026

How I Built the santi020k Developer Tool Ecosystem

How Lumen, ESLint Config Basic, Quality, Astro Doctor, Commitprompt, Dep Beacon, OG, Theme, and Auth form one practical system for my projects.

Developer experience
Developer tools

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Case Study

Sep 11, 2026

What Changed When I Started Writing Architecture Notes Every Month

A year of monthly architecture notes changed how I review systems, how I catch drift, and how I explain decisions to the people who inherit them.

Architecture
Documentation

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Opinion

Sep 7, 2026

Why I Moved from VS Code-Based Editors to Zed

Why Zed became my editor of choice: responsive work across multiple projects, flexible AI integrations, and Dep Beacon now available as a Zed extension.

Zed
Developer experience

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Guide

Sep 4, 2026

How I Got R.E.P.O. Running on Mac Without Whisky

A tested Apple silicon setup for running R.E.P.O. through Silo, Wine, and DXMT, including the DirectX graphics failure and its exact fix.

macOS
Apple silicon

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Case Study

Sep 4, 2026

Building RoadScore: An Offline Road-Trip Game for One Shared Phone

How I designed RoadScore around a co-pilot, an offline catalog, flexible trip sessions, and privacy boundaries that keep game data on the device.

RoadScore
Expo

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Guide

Sep 3, 2026

How I Flashed International Firmware on an Xteink X4

A tested guide to replacing Chinese Xteink X4 firmware with the international release by using its microSD updater when USB flashing is unavailable.

Reading
Xteink

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Deep Dive

Aug 22, 2026

Deterministic Open Graph images without design lock-in

Why I separated social-image generation mechanics from project-owned visuals, then built caching, safe cleanup, worker concurrency, and CI checks around that boundary.

Open Graph
TypeScript

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Deep Dive

Aug 21, 2026

Coolstead: Safety-first cooling for a Mac

What it takes to design a native fan-control utility around bounded requests, invalid sensor data, reversible behavior, and macOS as the final safety layer.

macOS
Swift

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Deep Dive

Aug 21, 2026

One quality command across polyglot repositories

How I built a native CLI that coordinates existing analyzers across Rust, Swift, Android, Kotlin, JavaScript, and Astro without flattening their ecosystem-specific strengths.

Rust
Code quality

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Deep Dive

Aug 21, 2026

Between Contractions: Local-First Partner Sync

How I designed optional cross-platform Partner Sync without making a contraction timer depend on the network, an account, or a central history database.