https://texfaber.com/blog/ The TexFaber journal. By J.H. en-gb Fri, 06 Nov 2026 01:37:54 +0000 https://texfaber.com/blog/letting-the-models-reason/ https://texfaber.com/blog/letting-the-models-reason/ After the clean-tree deletions, I have kept shrinking the wiki engine and moved from deterministic heuristics to letting the models reason. By J.H. Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:44:00 +0000 https://texfaber.com/blog/sixty-five-thousand-lines-out/ https://texfaber.com/blog/sixty-five-thousand-lines-out/ After the week described in Nineteen Hours of Not Fixing Anything, I did something I had been putting off. I copied part of the wiki engine's code into a clean folder, then began removing unused code. Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:44:00 +0000 https://texfaber.com/blog/nineteen-hours-of-not-fixing-anything/ https://texfaber.com/blog/nineteen-hours-of-not-fixing-anything/ Part Two ended with me saying the evidence was the software, and the software was what I was going back to. I went back to it. This is what happened next, and what I got wrong. Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:44:00 +0000 https://texfaber.com/blog/the-record-goes-before-the-review/ https://texfaber.com/blog/the-record-goes-before-the-review/ On 23 September I asked for a targeted improvement of the Mac app's right-hand panel. The session did thirteen things, built them all, and ended without an account of what it had changed. Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:44:00 +0000 https://texfaber.com/blog/the-button-was-seven-points-off-centre/ https://texfaber.com/blog/the-button-was-seven-points-off-centre/ There is a small plus sign at the foot of the left rail in Write and in Plot. For three weeks it sat seven points off centre. It is plain in my screenshots from 26 September. Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:44:00 +0000 https://texfaber.com/blog/when-the-words-disappeared-in-dark-mode/ https://texfaber.com/blog/when-the-words-disappeared-in-dark-mode/ In Dark mode in the Mac app, you could not read what you wrote. I found that out on 26 September, when I asked for a list of improvements to the whole app and for every item to be carried out in order. Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:44:00 +0000 https://texfaber.com/blog/a-second-reader-for-the-cover-editor/ https://texfaber.com/blog/a-second-reader-for-the-cover-editor/ On 18 September I had a cover editor that looked finished. So I handed the whole thing to a different agent that had never seen it, and asked it to find what would ruin a printed book. Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:44:00 +0000 https://texfaber.com/blog/a-cover-is-not-a-rectangle/ https://texfaber.com/blog/a-cover-is-not-a-rectangle/ I asked for something I thought was simple. When you print a book, the spine and the back cover are one image with the front, so the app should let a writer add a picture, put text into a template, and get one file. Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:44:00 +0000 https://texfaber.com/blog/keeping-earlier-drafts-within-reach/ https://texfaber.com/blog/keeping-earlier-drafts-within-reach/ A writing app has one job before every other, which is not to lose what you wrote. That is the goal, and a day's work does not prove it under every failure. On 19 September I spent a day moving toward it. Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:44:00 +0000 https://texfaber.com/blog/a-conversation-with-deepseek-part-two/ https://texfaber.com/blog/a-conversation-with-deepseek-part-two/ What would make me stop building this, and the four times I already have. By J.H. Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:19:33 +0000 https://texfaber.com/blog/a-conversation-with-deepseek-part-one/ https://texfaber.com/blog/a-conversation-with-deepseek-part-one/ I asked a model to take my first two entries apart, then asked what it had softened. By J.H. Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:19:33 +0000 https://texfaber.com/blog/the-wiki-builds-itself-now/ https://texfaber.com/blog/the-wiki-builds-itself-now/ What I have actually built: a story wiki extracted from the manuscript, a Mac app to write in, and what it took to get here. By J.H. Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:19:33 +0000 https://texfaber.com/blog/why-i-started-building-my-own-writing-software/ https://texfaber.com/blog/why-i-started-building-my-own-writing-software/ Why existing writing tools frustrated me, and why I am building TexFaber. By J.H. Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:19:33 +0000