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Thoughts on audio, design, and building tools for creative minds.
2026
- From Voice Memos to Sound Library: The Sound Library Manifesto Apple calls them Voice Memos. Temporary. Disposable. Forgettable. We call them your audio autobiography.
- The 3-Album Rule: Our Not So Radical Approach to Freemium We give away 95% of our features for free. We charge for one thing: Creating more than 3 custom albums.
- Offline-First: Why Your Voice Memos Shouldn't Need the Cloud Cloud sync is sold as convenience, but it's actually complexity. Sound Library keeps everything on your device — no subscriptions, no sync issues, no data loss.
- The Great Voice Memo Liberation: Importing Your Audio Past Your recordings are trapped in app silos. Sound Library's Share Extension frees them all with one tap.
- Why We Built Albums, Not Folders: The Multi-Dimensional Organization Revolution Folders force impossible choices. Sound Library's album system lets every recording exist in multiple contexts simultaneously.
- Beyond 'Recording 47': How AI Solves Voice Memos' Biggest Problem How AI-powered sound categorization transforms hundreds of unnamed recordings into a searchable, organized audio library.
2025
- MemoKit, the API we desperately need. Or What Google's AirDrop Hack Taught Me About Apple's Walled Garden
- If It Ain't Broke: How Apple Photos Lost Its Way — Part 2 How the Photos app redesign conflicts with Apple's own Human Interface Guidelines — navigation, hierarchy, legibility, and the loss of user control.
- If It Ain't Broke: How Apple Photos Lost Its Way — Part 1 An analysis of how Apple Photos evolved from iOS 17 to iOS 26 — and what was lost in the redesign of one of our most personal apps.
- When Sound Became a Memory A love letter to Apple's Voice Memos — what it gets right, where it falls short, and why we started rethinking the experience.
- Rediscovering My Own Soundtrack — Why I Built Sound Library The story behind Sound Library — why Voice Memos wasn't enough and how we designed an app for rediscovering your audio memories.