Notes on building small tools, and on what breaks. https://wendl.ie/journal/ 2026-08-31T00:00:00Z WendL https://wendl.ie © 2026 WendL https://wendl.ie/journal/a-number-not-a-lecture/ 2026-08-31T00:00:00Z

tab•tally counts your open tabs and says so once. Two permissions, no site access at all, and the reason for that is a rejection back in May.

https://wendl.ie/journal/screen-time-that-blocks-nothing/ 2026-08-30T00:00:00Z

Most website timers are blockers with a chart attached. site•stay measures and then says nothing, and the difference matters more than it sounds.

https://wendl.ie/journal/a-sticky-note-that-needs-no-login/ 2026-08-29T00:00:00Z

Every note app wants an account first. page•pin writes to your own browser and asks for nothing, and here is exactly what that costs.

https://wendl.ie/journal/the-dot-nearly-went-missing/ 2026-08-27T00:00:00Z

Cutting a typeface down to size, and the one character that would have taken the brand with it.

https://wendl.ie/journal/six-planners-one-planner/ 2026-08-26T00:00:00Z

Every structural check passed. Then somebody actually looked at them.

https://wendl.ie/journal/a-test-that-could-not-fail/ 2026-08-25T00:00:00Z

The document checker returned nine out of nine against a file with nothing in it.