https://oliver804.github.io/writing/ Notes from building a small cross-platform tool: scope, behaviour parity, naming, packaging and release checks. Written when a project ships, not to a schedule. en Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://oliver804.github.io/writing/why-the-launcher-drives-the-app/ https://oliver804.github.io/writing/why-the-launcher-drives-the-app/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Software engineering A machine-wide proxy switch is one click and fails where you cannot see it. Scoping the same setting to a single process is more work to build and far easier to reason about — and it changes what a diagnostic is allowed to claim. https://oliver804.github.io/writing/one-behaviour-two-builds/ https://oliver804.github.io/writing/one-behaviour-two-builds/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Software engineering The Windows edition is not a port. What two native implementations share, what they cannot share, and how parity gets tested without an account, a display, or anyone to click. https://oliver804.github.io/writing/renaming-a-shipped-app/ https://oliver804.github.io/writing/renaming-a-shipped-app/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Open source A name is attached to six different things, and only some of them can change. What moved in 1.1.0, what stayed, and why the repository still carries the old name. https://oliver804.github.io/writing/a-version-number-is-a-build-output/ https://oliver804.github.io/writing/a-version-number-is-a-build-output/ Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Developer tools A version typed into four places is four versions. One file became the only source, and the release artefacts became things that can answer questions about themselves.