Thinking out loud, in public.

• September 3, 2026

  ALTE 1.4.0: Fasting, Backups, and Building the App I Want to Use

  Intermittent fasting comes to ALTE, with the timer on your Lock Screen and watch face, plus a daily backup to your own iCloud Drive for the day something goes wrong.

• August 17, 2026

  ALTE 1.3.0: Try Everything Before You Subscribe

  Seven days of full access before any subscription decision, plus an Insights overhaul, supplements in Progress, and a lot of smaller fixes.

• July 23, 2026

  ALTE Is Out

  ALTE is on the App Store. A few months of writing about a problem, and the thing I built to fix it.

• June 30, 2026

  Planning Ahead, Not Looking Back: Why I Built Planning Mode

  Most health apps only show what already happened. Planning Mode helps you make the decisions before they need to be made.

• June 20, 2026

  The Problem With Most Health Apps

  Most health apps pick a lane—weight, food, sleep, or workouts—and ignore the rest. Here's why I built Alte to treat health as one connected system instead of a pile of disconnected metrics.

• June 11, 2026

  Why I Was Running Around My Kitchen at 10pm Scanning Barcodes

  Health tracking should make life easier. Here's what happens when the apps designed to help you do the opposite, and what it finally took to fix it.

• June 7, 2026

  Why I Built Alte

  I spent years juggling apps that almost did what I wanted. So I built one that does.