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I built BoardEject: an open-source Apple Freeform Excalidraw converter

I wanted a way to get editable content out of Apple Freeform instead of only ending up with a flattened PDF. So I built BoardEject . The basic flow is: Freeform → BoardEject → editable .excalidraw Where supported, BoardEject preserves things like: shapes text connectors groups drawings tables images Unsupported or unverified structures are reported instead of silently pretending the conversion…

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Letter to Friday-Me: Budget, Isolate, Then Stamp the Receipt

The following letter is a reconstructed failure log. It is not a claim about any employer. Friday at 16:40, the coding agent was still looping. No receipt named the runner, files, or stop condition.

  • Coding agent looped without a hard stop, consuming a full workday
  • Remote workspace inherited local dirt, causing unrelated diffs
  • No receipt provided for the loop's actions, hindering debugging

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