#privacy
7 posts- 3 min
The talk becomes a note — a fifth tool, and the end of Darkroom Notes Season 5
Record, transcribe, sort, shape, export. Everything this season has covered, one post at a time, joins up over a single recording. To finish, I trace that flow from start to end, write down what building a fifth tool taught me, and close Darkroom Notes Season 5.
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When a receipt becomes an expense — a fourth tool, and the end of Darkroom Notes Season 4
Capture, read, sort, verify, turn into an expense. The pieces I've written one by one come together on a single receipt. To close, I trace that flow from start to finish, write what I came to think after building a fourth tool, and end Darkroom Notes Season 4.
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The cards I didn't want to upload — Darkroom Notes, Season 3, and a fourth app: STIL.BIZ
The contents of a business card holder, when you think about it, aren't really yours. The names, companies, phone numbers, emails — they're other people's personal data. Uploading all that to a server just because it's convenient never sat right with me. Darkroom Notes, Season 3: my fourth app, STIL.BIZ, starting with why I made it.
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Hidden in plain sight — Darkroom Notes, Season 2, and a second app: STIL.TOON
I want to pass on the heat of a moment, just as it was. But this is an age where showing faces takes a little care. My own family is fine — yet a friend, or a stranger who happened to be in the frame, isn't mine to put out into the world. — Darkroom Notes, Season 2. The story of my second app, STIL.TOON, starting with why I made it.
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I rebuilt it before anyone came — a second app, and moving as a family
Right after release, I rebuilt STIL.TOON — account system and all — while almost no one was using it yet. The only time you can rebuild cleanly is before real users arrive. And this wasn't TOON's call alone; it was the whole family turning together.
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When a card becomes a contact — a fourth tool, and the end of Darkroom Notes Season 3
Capture, read, sort, turn into a contact. The pieces I've written one by one come together on a single card. To close, I trace that flow from start to finish, write what I came to think after building a fourth tool, and end Darkroom Notes Season 3.
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I decided not to hold your data — how I removed the account itself
STIL. has no sign-up. It never asks for your email or a password. Not because that's convenient, but because I decided not to hold your material. What happens when you throw the account away — and how the app still stands without it. The second frame of the series is about privacy.