One orange, five apps
Utility Materials has a theme for every app I work in: VS Code and Cursor, Blender, Obsidian, Codex and an Omarchy desktop. They live at themes.materials.nyc, and the Blender one has been downloaded about 1,900 times.
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Geary has a rig, and now he takes my Meet calls
We commissioned a rigged 3D model of Geary, the Utility Materials mascot. Last night it became GEARY CAM, a Chrome extension that puts him in my Google Meet tile, blinking when I blink.
VIA Terminal spent a year in Processing
I shelved my iOS terminal app in 2025 because I thought compiler warnings were blocking the App Store. A year later Fable 5 fixed all 74 of them in ten minutes, and the real blockers turned out to be a broken plist, stale CPU slices and a framework the app never used.
When Configuration Chaos Nearly Killed My Pi Project
Building VIGIL taught me that configuration drift isn't just inconvenient — it's a reliability killer. Here's how I solved it with intelligent git automation.