November 2024: a ledger that cannot be quietly edited
November 2024 was about trust. The invoicing ledger only ever adds entries: a correction is a new line, not an edit. Here is why that makes the books easier to trust.
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September 2024: getting an existing round in without retyping it
Nobody wants to retype four hundred customers. September 2024 was about import: check the file first, show what will happen, never silently merge, and flag the duplicates.
July 2024: a library for the paperwork, filed where you will look
Once customers and jobs worked, the paperwork started to pile up: photos, certificates, notes and PDFs. In July 2024 we built a document library that files things where you will look.
One codebase and offline-first: the early engineering decisions
Two decisions made in the first half of 2024 shaped everything since: one shared codebase for the web and the apps, and a phone that keeps working when the signal drops.
Designing a job that repeats: every four weeks, for years
A window clean happens again and again. May 2024 was about designing a job that repeats: its frequency, its next-due date, and what happens when it is paused or skipped.