I just released 0.5.0, which is a pretty solid milestone. As I mentioned in the last post, this is the result of a lot of performance and stablility improvements, and it feels really good. I have a few things to do next:

• Experiment with a new UI
• Create a preflight check before publication. It should check, among other things, whether tags have been created.
• Allow/enable easy self-linking to my own posts
• Recording—and optionally, publishing—the location the post is published from

As always, more to come.

Update: Of course, I found a new bug right after releasing 0.5.0, so I guess there’s a 0.5.1 incoming. The bug: the editor can’t take the sequence to produce an umlaut. I discovered it while trying to post about the XCC race, and was trying to type “Blöcklinger”. As you can see, it works now. 😉

I’ve been working on Herringbone for about 5 months now, and it’s coming along really nicely. While it’s too hard to list all the work that’s been done since the last update, I’ve spent the last bit working on improving the architecture for site generation & deployment as well as cloud syncing between devices. I’m happy to say that both have come a long way since the early days. As I type this on my main Mac, running macOS 26.5.1, I’m watching my MacBook Air, running the app on the developer beta of 27.0 Golden Gate. As I type, the words are appearing in about 5 seconds, which is plenty for this application.

I’ve designed this as a single-user, multi-site application. That means that I’m not designing the editor to be a collaborative multi-user editor, which allows me to make decisions that favor my use case: just me working on sites, but I do it from multiple devices. That means that I can create, edit, and publish posts from any of my Macs, my iPhone, iPad, or Vision Pro, but from one at a time. By the time I switch to a device, the current state of the site is correct.

Next up, I’m planning to iterate on the UI. Right now, the app looks largely like it has since the beginning: a Mail.app-like interface. However, I’m rarely looking back down the list of posts, and I’m thinking of re-working the main interface to be more dashboard-like, and have posts live in individual windows, document-style. I haven’t really started that work, and may not like it, but I’m going to give it a shot before adding more features.

More to come soon.