Icy Iterations

If your release notes say “Bug fixes and minor improvements,” you’re doing it wrong.

The right release notes can boost morale, surface hidden wins, and make your product look alive. Here’s proof.

Aug 9 • 

Steffen Finsland

May 2025

Now on the Mac App Store: AI that writes your release notes

The dreaded question: “What’s new in this release?” appears just as you’re ready to launch a new version. Your mind goes completely blank, as if someone…

May 15 • 

Steffen Finsland

March 2025

Commit Messages Should Say Why, Not What

The ChatGPT integration seemed brilliant when I first wired it into Gitonium's commit flow in early 2023. Automatic commit messages. Like finding cheat…

Mar 26 • 

Steffen Finsland

New Ideas and Freak Accidents

Recently, as I wrapped up a quality-of-life update for one of my apps, I once again faced the dreaded empty "What's New" field. I was ready to submit…

Mar 14 • 

Steffen Finsland

How Clean Code Silently Corrupts Your Git History

And How to Fix It

Mar 4 • 

Steffen Finsland

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January 2025

The Feature That Took Years

(and One Rainy Monday) to Build

Jan 30 • 

Steffen Finsland

November 2024

Have you been having a lot of headaches lately?

Have you been having a lot of headaches lately?I've had migraines my whole life. My mom has them, and so does my grandmother.

Nov 29, 2024 • 

Steffen Finsland

October 2024

How to Write a Good Ticket (and Stay Sane Doing It)

Trying to fix bugs without enough context is like searching for a contact lens at a Metallica concert—an exercise in futility.

Oct 5, 2024 • 

Steffen Finsland

September 2024

More Fun with Ollama

Save on OpenAI Costs and Get a Free File Analyzer

Sep 25, 2024 • 

Steffen Finsland

Apple's Missed Opportunity

How the New AI Features Let Developers Down

Sep 13, 2024 • 

Steffen Finsland

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August 2024

Echo Chambers and Real Productivity

In this issue Gitonium gets a new update, and I gain some insight.

Aug 1, 2024 • 

Steffen Finsland

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May 2024

Serenity, Savings, and Sanity

I was a software engineer working for one of the big tech companies. I spent my time sitting in endless meetings scattered throughout the day. I had…

May 21, 2024 • 

Steffen Finsland

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