The archive

Selected writing

The details are the product

The small decisions that make software feel calm, considered, and quietly excellent.

Good tools disappear

What building with SwiftUI taught me about interfaces that feel obvious, responsive, and calm.

The joy of the tiny improvement

A case for polishing the edges—the small decisions that make software feel made rather than assembled.

Attention is a material

How reducing noise—in a product, a workflow, or a day—creates room for better thinking.

The chip that changed the Mac

How the move from Intel to Apple silicon unlocked a different kind of performance—and changed what the Mac could become.