Issue No. One · Summer
Clean code
& the craft of good design
A field journal on programming, graphic design, and the quiet craft of building small apps and beautiful images.
TypeScript ◆ SwiftUI ◆ Figma ◆ Affinity Designer ◆ Blender ◆ Procreate
The Collections
Code, canvas & curiosities
Three running columns — from shipping code to studio life, pick a thread and follow it through the archive.
01 — Edit
Code
02 — Edit
Graphic Design
03 — Edit
This & That
Editor's Picks
Worth your next side project
01
Programming
A tiny app that pays the rent
8 min read
02
Graphic Design
Three grids for a clean layout
6 min read
03
Passive Income
Notes from a month of stock sales
11 min read
04
Programming
The quiet art of refactoring
5 min read
01
A letter from the studio
Small apps are
big worlds.
Wilmchen began as two notebooks kept side by side — one full of code snippets and keyboard shortcuts, the other full of letterforms, colour tests and small sketches.
It has grown, quietly, into a small studio and shop: tiny well-made apps, image packs for creative projects, and a journal about building things that pay their own rent.
— The studio
From the Studio
Currently, this week
At the studio desk · coffee no. 2
A small running diary of what’s open on the studio desk — the editor, the sketchbook, the experiment that might become a product.
Reading
Refactoring UI Wathan & Schoger
Building
A tiny habit-tracker app SwiftUI · week four
Listening
Lo-fi beats to ship code to The studio playlist
Designing
A botanical icon set — 24 glyphs, all vector
Learning
Blender, ten unhurried minutes at a time
The Journal
Field notes, lately
Dev diaries, design breakdowns, and honest notes from the passive-income experiments.
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Hello, world — properly this time
Read the piece: Hello, world — properly this timeThe studio blog opens its doors: what to expect from this journal…
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Building a tiny habit tracker in SwiftUI
Read the piece: Building a tiny habit tracker in SwiftUIA build diary in four parts: scope small, ship small, sleep well.
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Drawing a botanical icon set from scratch
Read the piece: Drawing a botanical icon set from scratchFrom pencil sketches to clean vectors — the full process behind vol.…
Shop the Post
Things from “The case for tiny apps”
From the July build log — small tools for a calmer desk.
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The best tools are the ones that seem to have always been there — honest, a little worn-in, and quietly paying for the studio that made them.
The Wilmchen Journal · Issue No. One, on building small
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