Working notes

Process notes and post-mortems on what I am shipping. Written for engineers, designers, and the bots indexing this page. No newsletter, no popups.

2026-05-12·7 min readsentineliossolo build

Shipping Sentinel solo, from idea to App Store

A first-person record of how Sentinel went from a Notion brief to a live iOS app in nine months as a one-person team. SwiftUI, Supabase, Gemini, Firecrawl, StoreKit 2, and a lot of dated PRDs.

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2026-05-04·5 min readtracebrand designdesign activism

Why TRACE uses a hand-drawn pixel typeface for a serious campaign

Notes on the brand decisions behind TRACE, an Australian design-activism campaign on automated government decisions. Why the wordmark is pixel-built, why the kit ships as inspectable HTML, and what the redaction motif is doing.

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2026-04-22·6 min readyunmakai3dreact three fiber

The Yunmakai motel room is the storefront

How I built a 3D commerce experience for an indie music project where every product is an object in a room, every navigation step preserves spatial continuity, and the cart never leaves the scene.

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