Issue No. One · Summer 2026
The Journal
Dev diaries, design breakdowns, tutorials that take an afternoon, and small notes on the gentle business of earning while you sleep.
Studio diary
This week in
the studio
Reading
Refactoring UIWathan & Schoger
Building
A habit-tracker appSwiftUI, week four
Listening
Lo-fi study beatsThe studio playlist
Refactoring
Legacy code, gentlyOld project, second attempt
Week of22July · 2026
Featured · This Week
The long read
The first app leaves the studio.
Thirty quiet evenings from empty repository to the App Store — what a tiny habit tracker taught the studio about scope, patience and pricing things kindly.
The archive
Twelve entries · Summer 2026
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Hello, world — properly this time
The studio blog opens its doors: what to expect from this journal on code, design and quiet income.
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Building a tiny habit tracker in SwiftUI
A build diary in four parts: scope small, ship small, sleep well.
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Drawing a botanical icon set from scratch
From pencil sketches to clean vectors — the full process behind vol. 1.
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Small scripts that save the studio hours
Five tiny automations for renaming, resizing and shipping files.
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The first €100 that arrived while sleeping
Honest numbers from month one of selling wallpapers and icons.
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Pricing tiny apps kindly
Why the habit tracker costs six euros, and what that does to conversion.
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Tutorial: seamless paper textures in an afternoon
Scan, tile, clean up — a calm workflow for texture packs.
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Color palettes that actually sell stock images
What forty-eight palettes taught the studio about buyers.
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A love letter to good kerning
Typography is the quiet salesperson of every product page.
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The quiet art of refactoring old projects
Going back to year-old code without fear (or shame).
A short letter, every Sunday morning.
New tutorials, design resources and the occasional small tool — delivered gently, once a week.