I'm Bryan.
I build apps for fun, I make teeth, I restore my old Land Rover and I take photos. And occasionally I write about it.
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The 2006 Black MacBook
Published:• 8 min readA £40 Gumtree find with a dead battery. How a 2006 black MacBook became one of the most enjoyable computers I own.
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Hunting Down Apple's Lost Hall of Fame
Published:• 5 min readApple spent years profiling creative professionals on their website — filmmakers, musicians, photographers, scientists. Then they deleted all of it. I tried to find them.
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Building This Site on a 2008 MacBook
Published:• 3 min readHow a frustrating afternoon trying to SSH into a Mac Mini and run local AI models ended with a 2008 MacBook doing everything we needed all along.
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2,827 Notes, 11,273 Attachments, and a Folder on My Desktop
Published:• 5 min readHow I extracted years of Apple Notes using Claude Code, a Swift CLI, and eventually just letting Apple do the hard part.
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Glancy: Building My First iOS App
Published:• 5 min readHow a frustration with clunky CGM apps turned into my first iOS build and a brand new Glance Mode built for the road.