In a second big win for the week, we submitted our iOS app for review this week. Apple been Apple rejected it the first time.

At work, we recently released a big new feature I’ve spent the past few weeks and months working on; semantic search. Given all of your uploaded documents, allow natural language questions against them. Here’s some post-release thoughts.

I have a bit of a secret, a way to keep dev enjoyable/actually do some chores in between the stream of sales driven development feature requests and the (luckily rare) bug reports. I call them submarine tasks.

I have a project, codenamed Ox currently, that has been consuming me for the past seven years.

I have hit a block. Not a writing block, not per-se. More of a mental staircase of ascending excuses. I just can’t make things anymore for myself.

There was recently a discussion on Hacker News around application logging on a budget. At work I’ve been trying to keep things lean, not to the point of absurdity, but also not using a $100 or $1000/month setup, when a $10 one will suffice for now. We settled on a homegrown Clickhouse + PHP solution that has performed admirably for two years now. Like everything, this is all about tradeoffs, so here’s a top-level breakdown of how Clog (Clickhouse + Log) works.

It’s been a very, very long time since I’ve released code to the open web. In fast, the only contributions I’ve done in the last 5 years have been to Chakra and a few other OSS libraries. So, in an attempt to try something new, I recently delved into the world anew.