Meria — writing
Writing
Build notes, teardowns and release posts. Mostly what broke, what it cost to fix, and what shipped afterwards.
Composed ·
Composed 1.7.3 — Calm Planning for Brains With Enough Going On
What shipped in 1.7.3, and the design rule underneath it: the app is not allowed to make you feel bad.
SignalDrop ·
SignalDrop 1.1: The Weird Little Mac App That Catches Every WiFi Drop
Event-driven CoreWLAN monitoring, a copyable ISP receipt, and no telemetry at all.
SEO ·Google Killed FAQ Rich Results. I Had 231 Pages of It.
The May 7 deprecation, quoted from Google’s own docs, and the open-source script that stripped 234 pages in one pass.
SignalDrop ·
Why Your Zoom Calls Freeze on Mac (It’s Not Always Zoom)
Three ways a call freezes, how to tell which one is yours, and what to do about each.
SignalDrop ·
How to Prove WiFi Outages to Your ISP (and Stop Getting Blamed)
ISP support runs on scripts. This is how to arrive with the evidence that skips them.
SignalDrop ·
Why I Built SignalDrop
The origin story: a menu bar app that catches the drop you were about to get blamed for.
Setup ·I Bought a Mac Mini So My AI Never Stops Working
A headless always-on dev server: Tailscale, tmux, SSH, and the cost math behind it.
SignalDrop ·
I Built the WiFi Notification macOS Should Have Had All Along
Zero polling, zero battery impact, zero missed events — the architecture behind the notifier.
Testing ·
FLUX vs Gemini Flash: I Tested Both So You Don’t Have To
A local 12B model against a cloud API on portraits, posters and text rendering, scored blind.
Founder stories
One per product — why it exists, written first-hand.