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  1. DZG STUDIO

    What Do We Mean by “AI-Generated”?

    On using AI, judging the result, and understanding the work behind it.

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  2. Mint

    What 22.83 GB of Agent Conversations Is Made Of

    A byte-by-byte look at images, duplicates, and what can safely be removed.

  3. Reso

    Why Reso Has No “Uncategorized”

    How Reso uses clear categories to keep useful notes from disappearing into an “Other” bucket.

  4. Alder

    Dictation That Never Loses Your Words

    Protecting a spoken thought through interruptions and blocked text fields.

  5. Alder

    The Hard Part of On-Device AI Isn’t Inference

    Getting local speech models onto real Macs reliably.

  6. Alder

    Why Alder Runs Multiple Speech Models

    Choosing speech models around the languages people actually use.

  7. Mint

    The “Junk” Your Mac Won’t Let You Delete

    How 16.9 GB of apparent junk turned out to support two installed simulators.

  8. Mint

    Your Coding Agent Is Eating Your Disk

    Measuring 72.6 GB across coding tools and finding a fix that keeps the conversations.

  9. Mint

    Not a Refrigerator

    A first-use test changed a feature-heavy interface into something quieter.

  10. Mint

    Why Mint

    Choosing a name that suggests care and renewal.

  11. Mint

    On-Device Intelligence, and When to Stay Quiet

    Deciding when Mint should act on files and when it should ask.

  12. Mint

    Why We Went Native

    What changed when Mint became software designed around the Mac.

  13. Mint

    The Mess We All Share

    Why digital clutter accumulates faster than most people can organize it.

  14. —Reso

    Between Building and Using

    What changes when the builder also lives with the interruptions their product creates.

  15. —Reso

    Making Ideas Visible

    How pattern discovery became a second pair of eyes for everyday thinking.

  16. —Scene

    Real Interruption Pain, a Smaller Promise

    The real problems and practical limits behind Scene.

  17. —Reso

    The Art of Restraint

    Cutting features to make room for the foundations.

  18. —Reso

    The UI You Never Think About

    An enjoyable interface to build is not always an enjoyable interface to use.

  19. —Alder

    The Whole Route Stays Local

    How Alder keeps speech recognition, cleanup, and text delivery on your Mac.

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