I make kind software.

Why kind?

Most habit apps punish you: break a streak, start from zero, feel bad, delete the app. I build the opposite — mascots that forgive. Crush the orangutan shrugs off your worst sugar day. Naomi the cow doesn't blink when you order the steak. Your progress is a planet that fills up, never a counter that resets.

Even my initials turned out kind: draw an A and a J carelessly enough and you get a whale. It became the company.

The evidence

• Quit Sugar: No Treat Today never resets your streak — a slip is a day, not a defeat.
• No Meat Today lets Naomi ask about meat without ever judging the answer.
• Tortuba remembers every fish you met, even if you forgot the dive.
• Emojym turns being slow at emoji into a game, not an embarrassment.
• Snack Workouts: Pyup asks for 90 seconds of push-ups, not a gym membership.

Writes

Notes on SwiftUI, Xcode, Rails, and the indie app life.

• How to delete an app and all iCloud/CloudKit data Mar 5, 2024
• How to upload dSYMs files to Sentry with Xcode Cloud Jan 25, 2024
• Searchable vs. Textfield in a sheet deployed with presentationDetents Dec 16, 2022

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Off the keyboard

I dive — which is how Tortuba happened; paper logbooks don't survive boat bags. I don't make music, I make playlists — someone has to. And I keep a Now page plus a timeline of the whole journey.

Six homes, four countries

Where home has been since 2005.