Understanding Collapse: A Comprehensive Guide
Discovering the Reality of Creating from Survival and How It Can Help Others
Feb 8, 20263 min read2
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Shipping, Observability, and Incident Handling
When something goes wrong in a health tool, the user can lose trust and momentum. Your job is to fix problems without turning the app into surveillance. Shipping a health-adjacent tool is different from shipping a hobby app. Reliability is part of ca...
Feb 6, 20262 min read5
Building the PWA Shell and Install Experience
Before someone trusts you with a log entry, they need to trust something simpler: that the app will open, behave predictably, and not get in their way. If Parts 1–6 are about trust, Part 7 is about trust signals. People don’t evaluate a health tool t...
Jan 27, 20263 min read3
Offline, Sync, and Failure Modes
Reliable tools don’t require ideal conditions. They work in basements, parking lots, clinic hallways, and anywhere a person might be trying to get through their day. Offline-first is a promise: “This tool works when your life is unstable.” For a heal...
Jan 23, 20264 min read1
Lessons Learned from PainTracker
After you ship, the most valuable lessons are rarely the technical ones. They’re the ones about what users actually need when life is hard. A retrospective is only useful if it names the tradeoffs. If you’re building anything “health-adjacent,” you w...
Jan 23, 20262 min read2