Fresh Coat

May 2026 (416 Words, 3 Minutes)

Steady week. Two real builds – a tally design overhaul and Fuse calendar feeds. Everything else was cleanup and fixes.

apps/tally

Full design replacement on Thursday. The phone-frame shell went first – it was constraining the layout and hardcoding amounts that should have been live. New stack: Space Grotesk type, parchment palette with clrs.cc orange accent, a desktop layout that actually uses the viewport. Body background now matches the theme, Screen shell capped at 430px max-width on desktop, centering flex that was squishing content removed.

Data fixes in the same pass. Pay date was stale. Messages section was generating duplicates – deduped. PWD step 3 (medical assessment) marked done. Badge clears on view.

apps/fuse

v1.1.0 landed Friday. The main addition: Google Calendar integration. Paste a secret ICS URL in the new Settings tab and Fuse fetches it through a Vercel proxy to get around CORS. A lightweight ICS parser handles UTC, floating, and all-day dates. Refetch fires via a custom window event when the feed changes. Font swapped from -apple-system to Geist, self-hosted woff2. Bottom nav picked up a Settings tab. Calendar feeds make the app feel like it was built for something. Before that it was countdowns into a void.

nulljosh.github.io

Vibe clone from ashwingopalsamy.in on Thursday. Warmer palette: #161514 dark, #ebebeb light. Plus Jakarta Sans for headings. Blue accent (#2558d9 dark / #5b8dee light). Heatmap cells scale to the blue. Box-shadows removed, links de-italicized, section labels use the accent color.

cadence

Per-repo breakdown in the stats view – individual commit counts per repo instead of aggregate totals. Swift fix on the API layer.

vercel

Hit the 12-function limit in the apps monorepo. comment-counts.js was a one-query endpoint in its own file. Merged it into comments.js. Under the limit.

apps/life

Therapy session notes logged Monday. Religion section extended with the theodicy argument. Autism section added the lifespan gap data (16 years shorter on average, 9x suicide rate) and the gut-brain axis mechanics. GI section updated. Housing history expanded – the door removal at 16. All mirrored to iOS.

friday

May 1. Most of this week was polish. Nothing brand new except Fuse calendar feeds, and that one moved fast – scaffold to shipped in a day. Tally looks completely different from last week. The portfolio keeps cycling through design iterations but the content is more accurate than it’s been.

Pre-calc test prep is overdue. Getting to it this weekend.