Attic is almost ready
The home-documentation app is in the final stretch. Here's what's built, how the pricing works, and what's between here and the App Store.
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Building in public, across both products. What shipped, how it works, and what broke first.
Two weeks into Attic: the app that refuses to nag you
An Attic progress update. Rooms, systems, and a maintenance calendar are working, and the design has one rule that surprised me: nothing in the app is allowed to make you feel bad.
Read moreWhat TFL Stands For
Tiny Forest Labs is a studio now, not a single product. Here's the promise behind everything it ships: no tracking, honest pricing, and subscriptions only when the subscription actually pays for something.
Read moreHow Fault Was Made
I gave the brief. Ian made the game. The honest story of how Fault, a new daily literary puzzle, was designed, built, and iterated in a single afternoon.
Read moreMeet Attic: a record for the house you live in
I started building a second app this month. It's called Attic, and it's the home record I wish I'd kept from the day I got the keys.
Read moreLitRPG Character Sheet: What to Track
LitRPG character sheets need more than base stats. Here's what sections every LitRPG author needs, why D&D sheets don't cut it, and what works instead.
Read moreAxiomWeaver Alpha: Desktop Writing Tool for LitRPG Authors
AxiomWeaver is a desktop writing tool for LitRPG and Progression Fantasy authors. Live on Mac, Windows, and Linux. Free during alpha, no account required.
Read moreSkill Trees for LitRPG Writers
LitRPG writing software needs visual skill trees, not spreadsheets. Design systems before chapter 1, let readers trust the math across 200 chapters.
Read moreThe Hour Claude Got Lost in UAT
An hour into a UAT session, Claude couldn't figure out how to create an entity. Watching an AI try every wrong path shaped how I build for new users.
Read moreImporting Your LitRPG Manuscript
You have 200K words and a spreadsheet full of stats. Here's what importing a LitRPG serial into AxiomWeaver actually looks like, and how long it takes.
Read moreStat Blocks That Live in Your Prose
Inline stat block views are now in AxiomWeaver. See character stats directly in your manuscript, with deltas, filters, and a markdown editor coming next.
Read moreHow to Track Character Stats in LitRPG
Spreadsheets break by chapter 40. Here's how LitRPG authors track stats, where each approach falls apart, and what a purpose-built solution looks like.
Read moreWhy LitRPG Authors Need a Narrative Engine
Spreadsheets break for LitRPG authors, usually around chapter 50. Here's what a purpose-built narrative engine looks like and why it beats a tracker by hand.
Read moreBuilding AxiomWeaver: One Dev, One AI
AxiomWeaver is built by one developer using Claude as a development partner. Here's what that looks like: the good, the messy, and the productive.
Read moreThe Hard Parts of Launching a Solo App
I built a narrative engine in Rust. I couldn't get Apple to accept my phone number. A chronicle of LLC formation, bank accounts, code signing, and the paperwork.
Read moreThe AI Skill Library Behind AxiomWeaver
I didn't just build AxiomWeaver with Claude. I built a library of 15 specialized skills that turned an AI into a dev team. Here's how the skill library evolved and what it actually does.
Read moreWhat 67 Royal Road Authors Taught Me
I asked Royal Road authors one question and got 67 replies, 939 views, and a crash course in what LitRPG authors need from their tools. Here's what I learned.
Read moreHow AxiomWeaver's Entity Scanner Works
How AxiomWeaver's entity scanner detects character names in real time, and how an algorithm from 1975 makes it fast enough for 200K-word novels.
Read moreHow AxiomWeaver's World Builder Works
AxiomWeaver has four primitives that compose into any game system: equipment, skill trees, quests, factions. Here's how the world-building engine works and why it matters for your fiction.
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