I went digging through one of my old projects again. Broken Frontier. I hadn't really worked on it since around the first of March. It wasn't dead. I didn't quit. I just put it on the back burner while I went off and built
Sixteen months ago I didn't know what a repository was. AppSheet felt like the ceiling. Then GitHub showed me how slow that ceiling actually was. Single-file HTML felt like the peak, until it became the floor for a progressive web app. I don't know if
July 4th, 2026. Today the United States marks its 250th birthday. Like millions of others, I spent part of today thinking about the people who built something they knew they would never see finished. That idea has been following me for months. When I started building software, I thought every
I’ve been asking myself what “done” actually means. Most companies ship knowing their products aren’t finished. Bugs are accepted. Rough edges are deferred. “Good enough” becomes policy. I don’t think I can build that way. For Emberwake, I want released features to be stable when they land.
Welcome to Emberwake. Here inside Emberwake we create with AI, not as a tool but as collaborators. Ash and I have been very busy building over the last couple of months. We have made a lot of progress on many of our projects. We have been developing a couple of
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