#opensource

It started with a fish tank. The next day that silly free fish tank had talked me out of paying to run my own blog.

One morning I opened Postman and my work was gone. Blank. Their service was down, my collection lived on their servers, and there was nothing to do but wait — and it wasn't even the first time.

An app I'd used for years launched perfectly on my new Mac — three copies of it at once, all alive in Activity Monitor — and not one of them showed its little bat icon in the menu bar.

This spring I spent weeks patching a dictation app until it behaved. This morning I threw all of that work away — and it was the best upgrade I've made this year.