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Notes from the forge.
Engineering write-ups, product thinking, and the occasional teardown. RSS.
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Two desktop apps, and neither one is an AI product
I shipped Cubby, a Windows clipboard replacement, and Ceiling, an AI-capacity tray app. Neither has a model inside. AI is how I build fast, not what I sell.
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Renaming a launched product without losing anything
Two weeks after launching Conduit on Product Hunt, I renamed it to Toolport. Here's the actual checklist: domains, 301s, the repo, npm, Product Hunt, and the things you deliberately don't rename.
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Why I rebuilt the SouthForge site in Astro
The old site was a client-rendered React SPA, which quietly broke SEO and social sharing. Here's why I moved to Astro and what it fixed.
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One gateway for every MCP server
Running more than one AI coding tool means configuring the same MCP servers over and over. Conduit fixes that with a single local gateway.
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