Life Snapshot Life Snapshot: Pick Your Own Ramen Night Want a simple meal... we've started ramen night. Minimal dishes, everyone's happy, and you can customize it as you please!
Hiking Thomas Dambo's PNW Trolls: Five in Two Years with Revisits Two years, five trolls, multiple ferries, one very long parking situation during cherry blossom season, and one troll I almost walked right past. Here's how I collected all the Thomas Dambo trolls in the PNW.
Simply Customize It! Simply Customize It 1.1.0: Following the Thread This started as an accessibility audit and turned into something bigger. Onboarding is shorter, browse views have new image toggles, accent colors behave everywhere, and the reMarkable Paper Pure is now on the device list.
Monthly Newsletter SimplyKyra Monthly Overview: April 2026 April was a full one: spring break, a first Moms in Tech presentation, five blog posts, updates for three apps, and a robin who claimed our eaves for the season.
Life Snapshot Life Snapshot: Zoey's Contacts My youngest has to wear contacts six days a week so her myopia doesn't get worse. Getting consistent took a while... until I started tracking it in my own app without really planning to. This is what that looked like.
Simply Match It Simply Match It 1.1.1: A Better Welcome This update brings proper onboarding, a sample board for new players, VoiceOver accessibility fixes, and a handful of polish updates that make Simply Match It feel more complete.
Simply Uncover It Simply Uncover It 1.1.1: Built for Everyone What started with an accessibility audit turned into a more complete pass than I expected. I already had dark mode toggle-able but now we have VoiceOver and reduced motion.
Apple Demystifying Apple Development: What It Actually Takes to Ship an App There are a lot of tutorials out there. What's harder is finding someone to show you what happens after that... the configuration, signing, permissions, and the part where you try to upload your first build and have absolutely no idea where it goes or why it's mad at you. That's what this is.
Life Snapshot Life Snapshot: The Post-It That Actually Helped A Monday hangry spiral, a mug warmer, and a sticky note. Sometimes the smallest thing is the thing that actually works.
Mindset Consistency Over Perfection: Fitness Spin A month ago I came across one of those exercise videos showing an epic move followed by everything you needed to do first... and thought, what if I showed the consistency it took instead. So here's a decade of showing up! Not perfectly. Not every day. Just... returning to it.
Simply Remember It Simply Remember It 2.2.1: Understandable Sharing 2.2.1 came from something real: testing sharing with my own family and seeing exactly what needed fixing. This patch includes ability to rename people, widget filtering, incoming task defaults, and a few quieter things that are just better now.
MOC Building Rocky from Project Hail Mary (And Why I Couldn't Not) I hadn't planned to blog this. But then I found a LEGO MOC that turns the Creator Cute Bunny set into Rocky from Project Hail Mary... and now Rocky lives on my desk and is my rubber duck for debugging sessions. No regrets.
Monthly Newsletter SimplyKyra Monthly Overview: March 2026 March had a lot of quiet-until-it-wasn't energy: frost and blooms, a long-awaited movie, and somehow four app updates shipped in one stretch.
Simply Uncover It Simply Uncover It: Something New to Share What started as a code audit turned into a round of quiet fixes... plus a new way to share your results when you finish a game.
Simply Remember It Simply Remember It 2.2.0: A Better First Hello Instead of explaining what Simply Remember It does, the new onboarding shows you what it can do for you. That's a small shift that changes everything.
Simply Customize It! Simply Customize It 1.0.25: The Fix That Needed Fixing Thanks to an email I realized my previous audit quietly broke both upload and download for single screens. That's now fixed in 1.0.25 along with a handful of small polish improvements.
Simply Match It: Smoother, Sharper, and Now It Can Brag For You A code audit turned into a quiet round of polish and one small feature I almost didn't add but I'm most glad I did.
Simply Uncover It Simply Uncover It: Version History A chronological list of all Simply Uncover It updates with short summaries.
Simply Match It Simply Match It: Version History A chronological list of all Simply Match It updates with short summaries.
Behind the Scenes How I'm Actually Using AI as a Solo Developer (Still Figuring It Out) The conversation about AI feels very loud in both directions. My experience has been... quieter than that. Here's what it's actually looked like for me.
Simply Customize It 1.0.24: A Quiet One A quiet maintenance release... internal code cleanup and a crash fix for macOS and iPad sidebar navigation.
Simply Remember It 2.1.0: Remember It... Together The biggest update since 2.0... and the one I've been quietly building toward.
Simply Customize It 1.0.23: Image Orientation Fix A PNG image can look perfectly upright on your Mac, iPhone, or iPad... and still appear sideways on your reMarkable. This update fixes that, quietly and automatically, the moment you import the file.
Gentle Productivity Friction Mapping: A Kinder Way to Understand Why Things Feel Hard When everyday things feel harder than they should, it’s easy to assume we’re failing. But sometimes what looks like inconsistency is really just life pushing back. This is about noticing that difference.
Monthly Newsletter SimplyKyra Monthly Overview: February 2026 A deeper February: quiet refinements, a meaningful blog post, and steady ecosystem growth.
