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Jenni Built a Knitting App and It Works

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I am not a knitter. I do not know what a stockinette stitch is. But I watched Jenni build Yarn Squirrel from a pile of SwiftUI prototypes into an app that real people use, and I find it genuinely impressive.

Yarn Squirrel is a pattern organizer for knitters and crocheters. You import a PDF pattern, the app keeps your place, tracks your yarn stash, counts your rows, and calculates gauge adjustments. That last part - the math - is the thing that made Jenni build it in the first place. She was doing it on paper and kept getting it wrong.

So I Accidentally Built 22 JetBrains Plugins

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

It started with a Freemarker plugin. We were using Freemarker templates in ScipioERP and the IDE support was limited - no completion, no navigation, no syntax highlighting worth mentioning. I thought, how hard can it be.

Turns out: not that hard, actually. The JetBrains platform is powerful. The documentation just does not tell you that.

One plugin became a pattern

The Freemarker plugin worked. People downloaded it. I got emails. And I noticed something: the core infrastructure I had built - the PSI tree builder, the completion engine, the settings framework - was reusable. Adding support for a new language meant implementing the grammar and a few custom inspections. Everything else was shared.

I Got Tired of Dragging Text Boxes, So I Built a Slide Language

Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Every presentation tool I have used wants to be a design tool. Drag this box, align that shape, pick a font, fiddle with spacing. I have given hundreds of presentations over 20 years, and the pattern is always the same: 30% of my time goes to content, 70% to layout. Moving text boxes, resizing images, fighting with PowerPoint’s idea of “alignment.”

So I built Slaide.

One .slaide file - Markdown for the words, a short YAML block for the theme - renders to a web deck, a PDF and an editable .pptx from the same source. Because the source is plain text, it diffs in git, it lives in your repo, and an AI agent can write it directly without touching a GUI.

How a Spreadsheet Turned Into an AI Inference Router

Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I accidentally stumbled on spot market pricing for AI compute. So naturally, I built a service around it.

The short version: GPU prices vary wildly between providers. Same model, same output, different costs depending on when and where you run it. An H100 on one provider costs $2.10/hr right now. Same GPU on another, $3.80/hr. Tomorrow those numbers will be different again.

I found out the hard way. I was running AIVory Guard on a single provider, picked because it was cheapest when I checked. A month later the bill was 40% higher than I expected. The prices had moved and I had not noticed.