Timeline

Last checks before TestFlight

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App Store setup, payments and safety reviews are done in code. Next comes TestFlight, and a launch on the @itsevanrico channel.

October 202628

Oct 31, 2026✦

evandev.blog, version three

This one: the timeline, deep dives, writing and the newsletter.

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The portfolio moved to evangrico.com and this site became the long version: every dated moment on one timeline, a deep dive per project with demos you can play with, writing, video deep dives and a newsletter. Public for the first time.

Oct 30, 2026

1,147 commits

Five months in.

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By 30 October Biro had 1,147 commits since the first one in May.

Oct 30, 2026

1,560 runs and 141 tasks

Grok joins on a cloud computer of its own.

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By the end of October the team had run 1,560 times and finished 141 tasks. Grok, xAI's bot, now works alongside the nine on a cloud computer of its own, taking its own tasks from the same board.

Oct 26, 2026

Just a browser again

Agent windows move out to VibeEngine.

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Heavy agent sessions could take Clear down with them, so the agent windows moved out into VibeEngine, a separate browser just for the agents. Clear went back to being a browser for me.

Oct 26, 2026✦

The agents get their own browser

VibeEngine splits off from Clear.

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Heavy agent sessions inside Clear's agent windows could take the whole browser down, so the agents moved into VibeEngine: a browser of their own that runs in the background on the Mac mini.

Read the VibeEngine deep dive →

Oct 26, 2026✦

VibeEngine

VibeEngine 0.1

Its own app, with the old profiles and logins moved across from Clear.

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Heavy agent sessions took Clear down with them, so the agents got a browser of their own. It runs in the background on the Mac mini, and the profiles and logins they already had in Clear moved across.

Oct 11, 2026

Potential

Week 2

The goal engine, the Today screen, photo proof and hold to complete.

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The goal engine that turns who you want to become into a path, the Today screen, photo proof for each step, and the press-and-hold to complete it.

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Oct 10, 2026✦

0.2: profiles and one sheet of glass

The first beta you can download.

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Unlimited profiles, each with its own cookies and logins, threads, history, emoji or photo badge, colour, search engine, backdrop and layout. The glass was rebuilt too: one backdrop for the whole window instead of a blur behind every panel, so there's far less to draw.

Oct 10, 2026

Quicker, with ideas from Helium

Bangs, layouts, split view.

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13,000+ !bangs at either end of a query, Sidebar, Compact and Frameless layouts, split view with a divider you drag, hibernating tabs, back to opener, ⌃Tab to the last tab, copy link and force paste, hidden cookie banners and per-site fingerprint noise.

Oct 10, 2026

Agent windows

The hard limits live in the browser.

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An agent from my Vibe team can browse in a window of its own profile, with its own pointer and a glowing edge. I can take over, hand back or stop it. Clear itself refuses logins, passwords and payments, and locks each agent to one account.

Read the Potential deep dive →

Oct 10, 2026✦

Potential

Scaffolded

Design system, onboarding screens 1 to 8, sign-in.

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The first day: a design system, the first eight onboarding screens and sign-in.

Oct 10, 2026✦

Today

The first trains run

The board, lines and the split-flap clock.

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The first build: the departure board, a line for each part of your life, and the giant split-flap countdown.

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Oct 10, 2026

VibeEngine

Agent windows in Clear

Agents browse in windows of their own, with a glowing edge I can take over.

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The first version lived inside Clear: an agent from my Vibe team could browse in a window of its own profile, with its own pointer and a glowing edge. I could take over, hand back or stop it.

Read the VibeEngine deep dive →

Oct 9, 2026

AppleSoft

Live, invite-only

On the AppleX site.

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AppleSoft went live on the AppleX site, served from the Mac mini with one-time invite links.

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Oct 9, 2026✦

AppleX

The AppleX site goes live

Invite-only, served from the Mac mini.

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All five parts went up on one site, with a concept demo for each, served from the Mac mini and open only through one-time invite links.

Oct 9, 2026

554 commits in

58k lines of TypeScript, 56 screens.

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Counted on 9 October: 554 commits since May, about 58,000 lines of TypeScript and 56 screens.

As of Oct 9, 2026

JARVIS

Running daily on my machine

Oct 9, 2026

The first three days, counted

309 runs, 41 of 57 tasks.

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In its first three days the team ran 309 times, finished 41 of 57 tasks, wrote 378 messages and 40 files, and asked me for approval 21 times. I said yes 19 times. Across the three apps that make it up there were about 12,000 lines of Swift.

Oct 9, 2026

My phone drives the Mac mini

Magic Computer, Media, Wake & Unlock.

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Magic Computer puts the Mac mini's screen on my phone, with a trackpad, touch control and a keyboard. Media shows what's really playing. Wake & Unlock types my Mac password only after Face ID, and the password never leaves the phone.

As of Oct 9, 2026

Wisp

My daily dictation

Not yet ready for anyone else.

Oct 9, 2026✦

Essay

Why I love the Mac

The computer I build on, the computer I build for, and the small things that make me care so much about both.

Oct 9, 2026

evandev.blog, version two

Astro, a desk with a filing cabinet, invite-only.

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Rebuilt in Astro as a personal desk: each project a world with a chrome object you could spin, looping demos of every feature, and a journey beside each story. It stayed invite-only, with one-time links.

Oct 8, 2026✦

The AI team ships its first PRs

Twelve pull requests from Vibe.

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Vibe's first real job: twelve pull requests, including server-verified subscriptions, written by Forge, checked by Sage and merged in one evening.

Oct 8, 2026

Nova gets a voice and hands

Talk on the phone, answers on the Mac.

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Put the phone on its side and Nova becomes a desk companion: tap him and talk, and he answers out loud. On the Macs his replies appear as little bubbles under the menu bar.

Oct 8, 2026✦

First real job: twelve PRs for Biro

Merged in one evening.

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Forge wrote twelve pull requests for Biro, Sage checked every one, and I reviewed and merged them in one evening. In its first three days the team ran 309 times and finished 41 of 57 tasks.

Oct 7, 2026

AppleSoft AppleX

A live demo for every app

Something you can try.

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Each app got a working demo: type a reminder, triage an inbox, or ask the Terminal what went wrong.

Oct 7, 2026

The team moves into the notch

VibeWork on the MacBook.

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VibeWork started on the MacBook: the team lives in the notch, with an overlay that shows who's working. Team chats for Biro and AppleX gave the agents somewhere to talk to each other.

Oct 6, 2026✦

Nine agents get names and jobs

VibeLite goes on my iPhone the same day.

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Before this I had three separate assistants, one each for the Mac, the MacBook and the iPhone. On 6 October I rebuilt them as one team with real jobs: Atlas runs it, Forge codes, Iris designs, Sage checks anything risky, Mint watches money, Hype and Echo do marketing and content, Pulse reads trends, and Nova is my assistant.

September 20266

Sep 23, 2026

Biro comes alive

Eyes that wander, peeks that waddle in.

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The Biro character got sphere eyes that wander and blink, peeks that waddle in, and idle scenes that come every 25 to 45 seconds.

Sep 18, 2026

AppleSoft AppleX

Eleven Pro apps, drawn up

One page for each.

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Notes, Music, Reminders, Calendar, Mail, Messages, Photos, Preview, Finder, Freeform and Terminal: one page each for what would finish them.

Sep 17, 2026✦

AppleSoft Clear Browser

Clear's first build

Swift, WebKit, no Xcode.

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A browser written from scratch in Swift on WebKit, built with only Apple's command-line tools.

Sep 17, 2026

Card packs with a ritual

An ink tear strip that coils and falls.

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Opening a pack became a ritual: a card-sized mystery pack, an ink tear strip that coils and falls in front, and a holo platinum pack.

Sep 10, 2026

The examiner is the gate

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A decision that shaped the app: the Examiner's marking is the gate on the path.

Sep 4, 2026✦

It becomes Biro

One shell, 116 legacy files gone.

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GradeUp became Biro. The cleanup put the whole app in one shell, renamed every folder and removed 116 legacy files.

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August 202610

Aug 31, 2026✦

!APPS

!APPS written up

Ten apps and a shared ledger called CHARGE.

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The whole series went on the first version of this site: ten apps, one object each, and CHARGE underneath them all.

Aug 31, 2026

Wisp

Wisp gets a download page

Hold the key. Talk. Let go.

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A landing page with the install steps and the full pipeline, from the microphone to the paste, on the first version of this site.

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Aug 31, 2026✦

Wisp

Wisp 0.1.1 on GitHub

Microphone fixed under the hardened runtime, plus an icon and download progress.

Aug 31, 2026

Build log

Started This Site

The start of this journey...

Aug 31, 2026✦

evandev.blog, version one

Next.js, General Sans, a colour world per project.

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The first version of this site went up in a day: a type-led portfolio where each project owned one colour, written in MDX with a small studio for writing posts, deployed on Vercel behind a password.

Aug 28, 2026

The Path 2.0 engine works end to end

The path rebuilds itself around your weak spots.

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The adaptive section engine works end to end. The path now rebuilds itself around whatever you keep dropping marks on, rather than marching everyone through the same order. Next: making that legible to the person using it, which is the harder half.

Aug 25, 2026

The Examiner's classroom

The tutor hub becomes a scene.

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The tutor hub became an animated classroom with the Examiner in it, and asking the tutor now dials a video-call-style session.

Aug 24, 2026✦

Essay

One person built this

Five projects, one person, and the thing nobody tells you about scope.

Aug 8, 2026

Your first lesson before an account

Guest-first onboarding.

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You can do a real lesson before you make an account. The sign-up comes after you've seen what it does, not before.

Aug 3, 2026

Path 2.0

All 106 sections of GCSE Maths.

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A plan for the path, and a map of all 106 sections of GCSE Maths for it to run through.

July 20264

Jul 24, 2026

JARVIS

Packed up for the Mac mini

An encrypted migration kit for the move.

Jul 23, 2026

JARVIS JARVIS MK II

Live aircraft on a globe

Real flights from OpenSky, with routes when you pick one.

Jul 22, 2026✦

JARVIS JARVIS MK II

The MK II plan

Written into the repo, with a live camera feed behind a minimal greeting.

Jul 13, 2026

GradeUp v0.0.1

The first full build.

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The first full build: gamified GCSE revision, version 0.0.1.

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June 20264

Jun 16, 2026

AppleX Console Pro

Brawl Stars on the shelf

An Android game, launched from the same shelf.

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A day after the beta, Console Pro could launch an Android game (Brawl Stars) next to everything else.

Jun 15, 2026✦

AppleSoft AppleX Console Pro

Console Pro Beta 1.0

The Mac as a console.

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Log out of your Mac and into a console: one shelf for every game, controller first. Within days it was launching Minecraft and Brawl Stars from the same shelf.