What Timbre taught me about Windows audio and working with coding agents
Shared control buffers, missing processing, and a failed service handoff made us test Timbre at several levels. Here is how we kept the claims tied to the evidence.
Journal
Writing
Build notes, architecture, product thinking, and lessons learned while making Stagware projects.
Why I built Timbre to keep my audio hardware useful
Trouble getting EPOS Gaming Suite led me to investigate the hardware I already owned. Along the way, I found that my working GSX 300 was missing a whole group of features.
Seventeen million writes a week, for a tool only I use
My personal browsing tool was writing about 17 million rows a week to Cloudflare D1, almost all of it data that hadn't changed. This is how I traced each write, the two real bugs that turned up on the way, and what a week of production data showed.
Preparing Mantle for the Next Gemini Model Change
A code-level look at the seams, configuration, validation, and tests that make Mantle's Gemini models easier to replace.