Hoisting the black flag

Pirates don’t fight for medals — they fight for freedom. That’s the whole idea behind The Black Flagger: small, sharp Mac apps made the way we’d want to use them, and notes from the voyage along the way.

What this blog is for

Short posts about the things we build and the decisions behind them:

• Why an app works the way it does
• What we learned shipping it
• The occasional deep dive into a detail nobody asked about

What it isn’t

No growth-hacking, no ten-step funnels. Just honest notes. If a post ever reads like an ad, we got it wrong.

Chase the work like buried treasure — until the thing in your hands is truly well-made.

First up

BlackFlare is out: menu-bar notifications and usage for Claude Code and Codex. You can read the story on its own site, blackflare.dev, or jump straight to the docs.

# the whole install is basically this
open -a BlackFlare

More soon. 🏴‍☠️