The Two-Model UX Review: Stop UI From Sucking (on a Budget)
I’m building a side project — an offline-first PWA called Starchive where teams track appreciation with stars and hearts. Stars are admin-given points (gold, cashable).…
Murphy Randle
Software Engineer
As a Principal Engineer at Day One, I’ve spent nine years elevating software architecture, especially in syncing secure, end-to-end encrypted data. Now, I’m leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to transform the future of journaling.
Latest Long Posts
The Two-Model UX Review: Stop UI From Sucking (on a Budget)
I’m building a side project — an offline-first PWA called Starchive where teams track appreciation with stars and hearts. Stars are admin-given points (gold, cashable).…
Giving command-tab a break
The other day while waiting for Claude to process prompts, I watched this video: (I know, the irony isn’t lost on me) It highlights the…
Watch out for Hades
According to Reddit, horrible people have made a nasty supply-chain attack called Hades: [Link] Looks like it’s marked at this time by: If you find…
We’re zooming out a step
I’m slowly watching, feeling out the shape of this wave that we’re all riding together. I’m sensing an order-of-magnitude zoom-out when it comes to the…
Short Stuff
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· Jul 4
My previous post about Zanagrams.com made it sound like I’d built it. Sorry! I didn’t build it, just enjoyed it.
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· Jul 4
Beautiful words on freedom from Laura. Happy Independence Day to everyone in the world. May we all be free. https://laurarandle.com/an-embodied-independence-day/
murphitup
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· Jul 3
The kids and I had fun working on Zanagrams together today. It's like a Wordle, but different: https://zanagrams.com/
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· Jul 3
Whoops, looks like Crusoe’s reporting leaves something to be desired. I went far over my target billing limit before seeing any usage on the dashboard, and before being notified.
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@murphitup
· Jul 3
I've been playing with pointing my coding harness to Crusoe Cloud's models, since Crusoe harnesses otherwise overlooked energy sources. I'm surprised 😮 by how fast their version of Kimi K2.6 is ⚡
https://console.crusoecloud.com/
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@murphitup
· Jul 3
We need to be transitioning off of our dependence on big oil, not giving them new exceptions to extract profit from endangered nature. Please weigh in, either by calling your reps or using this site:
https://earthjustice.org/action/no-shortcuts-for-oil-and-gas-companies
Tools & Stack
Featured Projects
Day One Journal
activeDay One has been my primary focus for a decade. I've lead teams, architected re-writes, prototyped new features, and supported users. We've been through two generations of digital journaling, and now we're working on ushering in the third.
Love Notes
in-developmentA slow-burning background project, Love Notes is a mobile app intended to help romantic partners share spicy images while keeping their data private, protected, and prioritizing their individual consent.
SkateOh8
in-developmentAn offline-first, lightweight mobile app to help you and your skate crew know just how gnarly you are IRL. Track sessions, land tricks, rack up XP.
Pocket Apps
in-developmentMake apps for yourself, from your phone, on your phone. Lightweight, local-first, decentralized. This is homebrew software made easy.
Work Experience
2016 - Present
Day One [Automattic] / Engineer, Architect, & Team Lead
2014 - 2016
Kuali / Software Engineer
2013 - 2014
Space Monkey / Web Engineer
2011