Notes on design, building products, and things I'm learning along the way.

A diary of everything I've consumed — ranked by comparison, with notes from me to future me. Meet Tain.
I've been through hundreds of audiobooks and I have real opinions about most of them — but when someone asks what to listen to next, my mind goes blank. So I built an app to hold all of it: nine categories, tier boards, and a name twenty-five years in the making.
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I gave Fable 5 a game I'd failed to build for years — and learned what AI quietly skips.
The day Fable came out, I handed it screenshots, flow sketches, and design docs, turned on bypass permissions, and walked away. When I came back, a working prototype was running in my browser — and the real lesson was just getting started.
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