SeaBear Studios

Solo software practice.
A small, deliberate mosaic of work.

Building software for Apple platforms and the web, with adjacent practices in security and AI consulting. Small by choice. Written in public; revised in public.

Stages of composition: fragments (fresh, half-formed) patterns (arrangements coming together) mosaics (pieces I stand behind).

fragment

The half-frame that became PersistentBackgroundNavigation

Placed 1 day ago essay

A flicker I couldn't unsee in Tesserae's navigation, weeks of dead-end forum threads, and the structural fix that became SeaBearKit's first utility.

fragment

Dot notation came from jq, not design

Placed 2 days ago essay

Reverie uses dot notation because the original CodexCLI was bash + jq, and jq's path syntax is dots. The interface accreted from the implementation.