I’ve said it for years: squirrels are my favorite animal. They’re tiny systems thinkers—caching, mapping, iterating. Watching them changed how I ship software, structure stories, and survive weird days. Here’s a builder’s field guide to the tails that taught me....

Today wasn’t pretty. It was a cracking lost one—blood draw, long walk, bone-deep fatigue. But the work still matters: words for the book, commits for LifeOS, and a little grace for a tired brain. This is how you build in public on hard days....

A calm-first notification system: event triage, quiet defaults, humane copy, and φ-aligned UI that guides action without noise....

A calm, practical guide to coping with loneliness when your social circle suddenly thins—and how to rebuild small, durable connections....

A lean, transparent approach to Google Drive: REST + URLSession + Keychain. Smaller binaries, clearer errors, and control over refresh timing....

A practical φ-grid recipe for calm dashboards—anchors, rhythm, and triage so users decide faster with less noise....

I rebuilt a few LifeOS screens on a ϕ grid. The results: cleaner visual hierarchy, faster placement decisions, and fewer “does this look right?” loops. Here’s the before/after, the anchor math, and a copy-paste checklist you can use today....

Monday’s repo push was a reset. Today I’m reanalyzing the codebase—fixing scanners, token flow, and metadata. Tomorrow, another batch ships....