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Notes from building the products.

Design decisions, engineering trade-offs and lessons from active Nyfir Studios projects. These notes explain why the software is built the way it is, including the parts that are difficult or still evolving.

DESIGN PRINCIPLES

Local-first software: what it changes in practice

Privacy is only one part of the decision. Reliability, hardware limits, updates and operating cost matter too.

DROIDBAKE

Why app generation needs more than templates

Different prompts should produce meaningfully different structures, interactions and visual systems—not the same shell with different text.

FIGUREDESK

Why bookkeeping features need verification gates

A development note on traceability, controlled scope and why unfinished accounting logic should not be presented as complete.

v5.42.0