I write about constraint, and I build the apps that come out of writing about it.
What leaving Lightroom actually required: a complete photography workflow for macOS. Files and folders, XMP sidecars, no catalog, no lock-in.
Start with Photo Developer — the RAW engine the rest of the suite works around.
What happens when you apply software design principles to life — with honesty about what fails. A book about constraint, defaults, and the systems that shape our days.
Free companion workbook →Nine photo tools, roughly eleven months, one closed loop from capture to display. An honest accounting of building a whole photography pipeline for a user of one.
Before the suite there were the iOS apps — eleven small experiments in constraint, all still on the App Store, none of them subscriptions. All apps →
Every app does one thing. The feature lists are short because the kill lists are long.
No analytics, no accounts, no server calls. Your photos and words never leave your machine.
The writing argues for limits. The apps are built inside them.
One-time purchases, plain files, open metadata. Nothing here is designed to make leaving hard.