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Filed notes on the machine.

Filed notes on making the machine: material, density, measurement, interaction, and the difference between a surface and a colour.

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  1. NO. 001FILED 5 MIN READ

    Apple Needs to Get Their Shit Together in Their Dev Tooling

    ARGUES

    WWDC polish meets shipping friction: why Apple’s dev stack still buries you in projects, flaky previews, and docs that skip the caveats—and what would actually fix the daily loop.

  2. NO. 002FILED 5 MIN READ

    Big Cloud and the Fantasy of Imaginary Scale

    ARGUES

    Small project, big ambitions, zero production traffic — but somehow the plan already involves hyperscaler bureaucracy. The case against infrastructure cosplay, and the Cloud Tigers worth picking instead.

  3. NO. 003FILED 5 MIN READ

    BoutiqueDB: Local-First Swift Persistence on Turso

    ARGUES

    How a Swift framework turns Turso's engine capabilities into a coherent model for macOS and iOS apps.

  4. NO. 004FILED 5 MIN READ

    Building a Terminal Portfolio Web App

    ARGUES

    A breakdown of building a keyboard-first portfolio that borrows terminal conventions without becoming a gimmick, and why React, TanStack, Elysia on Bun, SQLite, and Cloudflare Containers were the right trade-offs for it.

  5. NO. 005FILED 5 MIN READ

    Cloudflare Workers Isn’t Serverless Anymore

    ARGUES

    How Cloudflare quietly turned a serverless function runtime into something closer to a programmable distributed application operating system — decomposing the server into composable capabilities across isolates, SQLite Durable Objects, Workflows, and Containers.

  6. NO. 006FILED 5 MIN READ

    Liquid Glass, Local AI, and the "26" Era

    ARGUES

    The 26 cycle is less about shiny UI than a platform reset: Liquid Glass changes hierarchy, App Intents and on-device models move into core UX, and iPad and Mac gain more serious work surfaces.

  7. NO. 007FILED 5 MIN READ

    Liquid glass on the web

    ARGUES

    Recreating Apple-like materials using CSS blur, transparency, and hairline borders.

  8. NO. 008FILED 5 MIN READ

    Why I Choose Neovim Over Full-Blown GUI IDEs

    ARGUES

    A practical look at why Neovim, powered by LazyVim and lazy.nvim, remains my daily editor over GUI IDEs: faster startup, better composability, cleaner remote workflows, and fewer layers between intent and execution.

  9. NO. 009FILED 5 MIN READ

    OrbStack vs Apple Containers vs Docker on macOS: How They Really Differ Under the Hood

    ARGUES

    All three run Linux workloads on macOS, but they optimize different layers: Docker for broad compatibility, OrbStack for lower-friction performance, and Apple Containers for tighter isolation through a micro-VM approach.

  10. NO. 010FILED 5 MIN READ

    Sidebar UX like Apple Docs

    ARGUES

    Sticky left navigation with a quick filter and a responsive mobile drawer.

  11. NO. 011FILED 5 MIN READ

    System font stacks done right

    ARGUES

    Use the system fonts so your site looks native on each platform (SF on Apple devices).

  12. NO. 012FILED 5 MIN READ

    The Agent Didn't Break the Codebase. It Preserved Every Mistake.

    ARGUES

    AI coding agents are useful for bounded implementation work, but they often fail at architectural convergence because they preserve too much. Serious refactoring requires human authority over what becomes canonical and what must stop existing.

  13. NO. 013FILED 5 MIN READ

    The Lost Potential of Native Mac Apps

    ARGUES

    Native Mac apps lost cultural momentum when the industry optimized for reach and speed, but that shift left a gap: software that feels coherent, durable, and deeply at home on the desktop.

  14. NO. 014FILED 5 MIN READ

    The Schism at the Edge: How Meta-Frameworks Broke the React Monoculture — and Reignited the War for the Runtime

    ARGUES

    The frontend was supposed to unify. Instead, it fractured. A definitive field guide to the 2026 meta-framework civil war — from the collapse of the React monoculture to the rise of explicit, edge-native architectures.

  15. NO. 015FILED 5 MIN READ

    WWDC26: Apple's Correction Release Is Also Its Most Important Developer Bet in Years

    ARGUES

    Apple's 2026 platform updates are not just a new coat of Liquid Glass. Across iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS Golden Gate, Apple is refining the user experience while giving developers a deeper way to connect apps, data, actions, and intelligence to the system.

  16. NO. 016FILED 5 MIN READ

    Building a Portfolio on One Clock

    ARGUES

    Inside an Apple II portfolio: React, WebGPU, Swiss typography, render caching, GPU budgets, and a Cloudflare editorial backend.

  17. NO. 017FILED 5 MIN READ

    Tulio Cunha / Computer Systems: A Portfolio Through the Machine

    ARGUES

    The design and engineering of an Apple II portfolio, from Swiss typography and artifact navigation to WebGPU rendering and a CRT trailer ident.

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