Monthly Archives: October 2026

Announcing Axminster: visual software design

Posted on 2026-10-22 by Graham

Axminster, my diagrammatic software design tool with LLM support, is now available for sale! Check out the product website for more info.

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Inter-process communication in a sandboxed Mac app

Posted on 2026-10-09 by Graham

Axminster—my graphical software design tool for the AI coding age—is still in beta, and it’s already been through three different technologies for inter-process communication (IPC). What gives? The reason the app needs IPC at all is to support the Model … Continue reading →

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Reasons to dislike AI coding

Posted on 2026-10-06 by Graham

Code as Art I covered this before in Art or tool? If you think of software as artistic output then generated software isn’t real because it doesn’t have the creative ineffability that’s a sign of true art. There’s no argument … Continue reading →

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