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Engineering notes from building native macOS developer tools.

July 31, 2026

EmpiricCommander 2.0: the file manager stopped needing the other apps

An SSH terminal on Mac, iPad and iPhone, key authentication that gets you into servers 1.9 could not reach, and archives that extract where they live - on a file manager that already clones repos, edits files in place and speaks SMB and S3 across three devices for one purchase. What changed, what did not, and what it costs from here.

July 26, 2026

Metis 2.0: your work leaves the app

Print a note with real pagination, save it as a PDF or as Rich Text for Pages and Word, and export the whole graph as a PNG or vector PDF. Tags become graph nodes, colours become yours, and external edits are about 9x faster. No format change - and everyone who already owns Metis gets 2.0 free.

July 1, 2026

Managing AI agent config across hundreds of microservices

Claude Code, Kiro, and Cursor all steer agents with Markdown - at company, service, and user level. At hundreds of services that becomes a knowledge base no tool governs for humans. How a native vault becomes that layer, and where it stops.

June 10, 2026

Putting Apple's on-device Foundation Models into three native Mac apps

The rule I applied everywhere - the model proposes, the app disposes - and the features I cut because a small on-device model could not do them honestly.