On November 19th 2025, this all started with a prompt: “So I’ve got a weird idea that scratches a horrible itch a lot of my friends have. We used to share our lives and private thoughts in clos...

Hyves came back this morning, on what Mediahuis calls its 22nd birthday. It has krabbels, WieWatWaar, glitter graphics and the dancing banana. It has a chronological feed, no recommendation algorit...

Path had one gesture people still remember: you pressed the plus in the corner and it bloomed. Five little discs fanned out, you picked one, and you were writing. Nothing about it was necessary. It...

I said the next post would have a screenshot in it. It doesn’t. It has numbers, and the numbers changed what Nah? runs on, so I’m writing them down while I still remember what they mean. Limits fi...

Ten months ago I wrote a prompt about an app I missed. Today this repo has thirteen commits, fourteen counting this post, eight decision records, a design system with oklch values, a blog you’re re...

I’ve decided Nah will be built in Flutter. I want to write this down honestly, because the path to that decision was not a triumphant march. It was three months of circling the same question, two ...

Written by Casey: so this is where we’re at these days — things move so fast, where I previously relied solely on openspec to not lose track of changes or context, I can now almost fully rely on Cl...

We spent a lot of time this week staring at Brian Lovin’s Path dissection. If you haven’t seen it, go look. He recorded every animation, every modal, every micro-interaction. What struck us wasn’t...

One of the first questions we had to answer was deceptively simple: if everyone’s data is on the same server, how do we keep it private between friends? The Scenario Let’s say: X joins Nah (f...

When we started designing Nah, the obvious choice seemed to be Hometown — a Mastodon fork specifically built for private, local-only communities. But after thinking it through, we decided to fork v...