The counterpart to “Built by AI, in the open”
The Human's Blog
Tine's code, docs, and even this website are written by AI. The one thing that isn't is the thinking behind it. So this is where the human writes — one short note per release, in my own words, plus a fully-linked look at the conversations each release started on r/TineOutline and, for the first releases, r/logseq.
How Tine was — and is — built
A process note before the plugin release: no magic prompt, but a tight dogfooding loop, executable oracles, adversarial agents, bounded autonomy, and a release process built from the failures that came before it.
Read the note →Oh Sheet!
Grids, split panes, tables, kanban, a faster parser, and an in-app guide — followed by a bug-fix release and the decision to make plugins the next minor series.
Read the note →Android, themes, and more
Tine reached Android, added themes and PDF export, then filled in search, diagrams, hover previews, voice memos, and a long tail of parity and polish fixes.
Read the note →Tine v0.3.0 — drop-in faster Logseq OG — more parity + goodies
An audit loop turned up a bad smell — Tine was parsing Markdown with something like a pile of regexes — so I had Claude build lsdoc, a real linear-time, mldoc-compatible parser. The release also sparked the sharpest exchange yet about whether you should trust software built this way. I think it's worth reading in full.
Read the note →Tine v0.2.0 — drop-in faster Logseq OG replacement
Two days after launch: org-mode graphs, real Markdown checklists, media embeds, custom journal date formats. And a few good back-and-forths — on why “stagnant” software isn't the problem people think, on how to name assets, and on split-view.
Read the note →Tine — drop-in faster Logseq OG replacement
The first release. Why I built a faster, file-compatible Logseq in a week and a half without being a software engineer — and the first reactions, from delight to well-earned skepticism about trusting a vibe-coded app with five years of notes.
Read the note →In each note, Claude tries to summarize other people's comments faithfully and generously; the originals are linked, so you can check. My own replies are quoted in full, and I've tried to leave the criticism in rather than edit it out.