Keeping a wardrobe on the device: a local-first PWA
Engineering notes from testPWA on local images, weather-based outfits, wear history, recoverable backups, and on-device garment analysis.
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Practice notes
View all notesOffline-first collaboration: making a local operation queue converge safely
From one household record to a recoverable chain of local writes, replay, deduplication, and conflict handling.
Why a household collaboration product should not rank its members
A leaderboard creates instant clarity by turning shared maintenance into an endless scoring contest.
Bringing emotional illustration into a data interface without obscuring facts
Illustration can give an interface room to breathe, but it must follow hierarchy, semantics, and accessibility.
Pet supplies: choosing between per-pet records and household inventory
Does one bag of food belong to a pet or the household? The inventory model must fit real sharing.
Projects
View all projectstreetree
A lightweight shared-life app that keeps planning, recording, and reflection in one offline-first flow.
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ZMT Pet
Pet routines connected to health records, household inventory, shared care, and explainable reminders.
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Treelore
A collection of local hot-seat tabletop prototypes with the distinct rhythms of Dungeon and Toyland.
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Terrarium
A two-player ecological diagnosis game using real species, time, and asymmetric information for shared reasoning.
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Daily Wardrobe
A wardrobe that keeps garment photos on your device, suggests outfits for the weather, and preserves daily wear history.
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Recent activity
View all activity- Published “Keeping a wardrobe on the device: a local-first PWA”
- Published “Offline-first collaboration: making a local operation queue converge safely”
- Updated Terrarium with a living-world mode and new diagnosis scenarios
- Published “Why a household collaboration product should not rank its members”
- Completed Toyland settlement and sound controls in Treelore
- Published “Bringing emotional illustration into a data interface without obscuring facts”