Notes on building minimal products.
Thoughts on design, development, and the craft of building things that stay out of the way.
Football Trivia, Answered on the Map
SpotGuesser asks five football questions a day and scores you by how close your pin lands on a 3D globe. How the scoring works, and how to challenge friends.
Read postFind Your Next Start Line
StrideInto is a hand-checked directory of US running races. How to find one in under a minute, what each race page tells you, and what comes next for runners.
Read postA Timer That Keeps Time When You're Not Looking
Browsers slow timers down in background tabs, so a Pomodoro that counts ticks falls behind. How PomoTimr counts from the clock instead.
Read postHow to Share Passwords Securely: 6 Methods Compared
Email, Slack and SMS all keep a copy forever. Six safer ways to send a credential, the principle behind them, and when not to share at all.
Read postMake Your Bed. Then Prove You Did It.
A Navy SEAL admiral built a famous speech around making your bed. What the habit actually does, what the evidence supports, and how to make it last.
Read postHow to Import Your Habit Tracker Notes Into Notion Using AI
The export is nested JSON; Notion wants a flat table. Copy-paste prompts that reshape one into the other, plus the checks worth running.
Read postHow to Turn Your Habit Tracker Notes Into Blog Posts
A year of daily notes is first-hand material nobody else has. How to find the themes, build an arc, and draft without it sounding like AI.
Read postThe Quiz Where the Wrong Answer Runs Away
How NoodleStrike rigs a yes/no quiz, which templates people reach for most, and how to vote on the characters who narrate them.
Read postWhat's New in Personal Habit Tracker v1.0.1
Guided onboarding, starter habits, richer trend charts and inline unit editing, plus where to download the extension.
Read postFive Habit-Tracking Principles We Used to Design Our Chrome Extension
What we learned building the Personal Habit Tracker extension - and why fewer features made it more useful.
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