Tag: ios
All the articles with the tag "ios".
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Why it exists · Ismi Why I built Ismi: a baby-names app where every meaning has a source
Most Islamic baby-name apps ship meanings copied from each other, some of them wrong. How Ismi's names pipeline works — Wikidata harvest, Quran citation verification against the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an LLM judge that rejects homographs like 'Matt → he died' — why the app is sect-neutral, and why it ships two native apps from one dataset.
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Why it exists · Underway Why I built Underway: a package tracker that doesn't read your email
The App Store's package-tracker category is ads, inbox scraping and $7.99-a-week trials. What it costs to track a parcel through a carrier aggregator, why live tracking is paid, why annual is priced above the category and why there is no free trial — and the carrier-terms risk that killed a beloved competitor.
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Why it exists · Murmur Why I built Murmur: voice notes with Whisper and a 0.6B LLM running entirely on the iPhone
Why a voice-note app should never upload audio, how WhisperKit and an MLX-hosted Qwen3 fit together on a phone, the seven-second budget per note, the crash that looked like memory pressure and wasn't, and what a one-time price means for an on-device app.
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Why it exists · Cura Why I built Cura: an SSH client that shows you the problem before you open a shell
The 2 AM pager problem, why Cura reads /proc over plain SSH instead of installing an agent, how the health score is weighted, the BouncyCastle bug that silently broke TLS for every SDK in the app, and why Pro is a one-time purchase.