Changelog

Launches, releases and changes, newest first. There's an Atom feed for following along in a reader.

  1. Type something you're avoiding, right on the page

    • Kindstart's page now runs the breakdown itself: type one thing you have to do and it comes back with the steps, honest time ranges, and a first step of two minutes or less.
    • It does the whole thing in the page. Nothing you type leaves the browser, there is nothing to sign up for, and it works with the app not installed.
    • It knows 27 kinds of task and falls back to a general breakdown for anything else, which is the same engine the app runs.
  2. Chapterglass has an Author license

    • The app stays free: reading, building and publishing a map cost nothing, and the free version leaves a small “Made with Chapterglass” credit on what you publish.
    • A one-time Author license takes that credit off and adds the extras: a look of your own, several books as one site, a public and a patron version in one step, and the game master exports. $30, once, with twelve months of updates, and the version you have keeps working after that.
    • The code is checked on your own machine. There is no account, nothing is sent anywhere, and a full refund is yours on request within 30 days.
    • It also opens on the second visit again: the offline worker had been storing the page from an address this host redirects, which a browser refuses to use for a page load.
  3. Weregild is out

    • Weregild, the household statement splitter, has its first public release: version 0.9.0, open source under the AGPL-3.0, as one Docker image for amd64 and arm64 with its source on GitHub.
    • Import a card or bank statement, swipe each charge to whoever owes it, and it works out the fewest payments that square everyone up. No bank logins, no telemetry, statement files deleted after import.
    • It has been in daily use by one household; treat 0.9.0 as a beta and keep the export handy.
  4. Three maps you can open

    • Chapterglass's page now lists three finished maps, built with it from books in the public domain: Treasure Island, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Dracula.
    • Each one is the real thing, not a picture of it: drag the chapter picker and the places, routes and people appear in the chapter the book gives them.
    • They were built by the app's own publish step, they ask nothing of any server, and each says which text it came from.
  5. Props that carry a secret

    • Mark words the players should not read and they print as a black bar, or in one of three ciphers a table can break with a pencil. The words reach no export: not the image, not the text a screen reader is given, not the Foundry entry.
    • A separate sheet, for you, says what is under each bar and how to read the code. It prints on its own, and in Foundry it is a page that holds itself back even once the entry is shared.
    • Cut it up draws cut lines for 3 to 6 pieces over a prop that still prints on one sheet, for a handout the players have to put back together.
    • Props remember your world: set a prop up the way your world has it and every new one starts there. Every prop a table sees again can make the next one of itself, keeping the shop's name and raising the number.
    • A printer check prints one sheet that measures the scale, the margins and whether background graphics are on, so a prop that prints wrongly says which setting it was.
  6. Chapterglass, and a demo you can click

    • A twelfth product: Chapterglass, a map of a series that stops at the chapter each reader is on, and publishes as plain files the author owns.
    • Its page runs the real editor in a frame, the way the Prop Press page does. Nothing in it is saved, and it hands out no files.
    • It is a working name. Everything on the page is the sample book that ships with it.
  7. Prop Press goes first

    • Prop Press will be the first one out, on itch.io: a free demo, and the full version as a one-time purchase.
    • Netkeep, for people who resell things online, is planned for January 2027.
  8. Product pages say what works and what's left

    • Every product page now has a dated list of what works today and what's still to do, instead of a paragraph that said the status twice.
    • Pages are laid out around what each product has to show, so a command-line tool no longer looks like a tax organizer.
    • Thingstead has screenshots now, taken from its own demo on made-up data. Caption Glass is still waiting on a real Windows PC.
  9. Thingstead's first beta is built

    • Version 0.9.0b1 is built but not published. It reads Codex CLI sessions now, and it can keep a private archive of sessions past the agent's 30-day cleanup.
    • It also comes with a demo that runs on made-up sessions for three pretend machines, which is where the screenshots on its page came from.
  10. First version of the site

    • The site went up with 11 products on it, none of them finished yet. Each product page says what's built and what's still left to do.
    • Netkeep, for people who resell things online, is first in line to launch.
    • The privacy policy has a section for every product, written from what each one actually keeps and sends. It's marked as a draft until the company paperwork is done.
  11. Readglass: the free extension is done

    • Version 0.1.0 has everything planned for the free version: reading mode, line focus, tints and read aloud, plus checks that make sure it never goes online on its own. It isn't in the browser stores yet.