https://neeos.ai/blog Build notes from Neeos — a private personal AI, built and used daily by its own founder. What shipped, what broke, and why. en-us https://neeos.ai/blog/the-two-week-encryption-rework https://neeos.ai/blog/the-two-week-encryption-rework Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Why the server holding your key for even one request was ruled out by name, what four phases of rebuilding it actually looked like, and what's still honestly open. https://neeos.ai/blog/a-page-about-me-and-a-roadmap-that-stopped-hedging https://neeos.ai/blog/a-page-about-me-and-a-roadmap-that-stopped-hedging Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0400 An About page, because the rest of the site is deliberately terse. And a roadmap pass that moved things both up — Apple Pencil, local LLM processing — and out, for good, not just down. https://neeos.ai/blog/the-cut-and-everything-it-changed https://neeos.ai/blog/the-cut-and-everything-it-changed Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Neeos got smaller on purpose. Then the identity, the homepage, and the way the product talks about itself all had to become honest about what was left. https://neeos.ai/blog/the-day-the-note-format-changed https://neeos.ai/blog/the-day-the-note-format-changed Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Thirteen device builds, five backend deploys, and a bug class that kept coming back until markdown became the one canonical body every note is written from. https://neeos.ai/blog/one-machine-under-a-stopwatch https://neeos.ai/blog/one-machine-under-a-stopwatch Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Retiring a MacBook, closing security holes verified by digest, and the performance number that turned out to be lying to us for months. https://neeos.ai/blog/the-sky-stops-pretending https://neeos.ai/blog/the-sky-stops-pretending Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400 The living sky had exactly two pictures and picked one with an if statement. Now it's a continuous function of where the sun actually is, wherever you are. https://neeos.ai/blog/trust-the-wire-not-the-type https://neeos.ai/blog/trust-the-wire-not-the-type Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400 A quiet Postgres client default turned ratings, run distances, and receipt totals into strings — and made them disappear. Here's the decision that fixed it for good. https://neeos.ai/blog/projects-and-a-second-pair-of-eyes https://neeos.ai/blog/projects-and-a-second-pair-of-eyes Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Chats get folders, Atlas gets a review queue before it ever touches your numbers, and Soma — the health module — gets the revamp it had been owed for weeks. https://neeos.ai/blog/momentum-gets-teeth https://neeos.ai/blog/momentum-gets-teeth Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Sub-tasks and real people attached to real tasks, plus WHOOP and Oura finally syncing under your own account instead of the one it was built against. https://neeos.ai/blog/atlas-learns-to-budget https://neeos.ai/blog/atlas-learns-to-budget Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Goal-centric budgeting, a preview before every write Neeos makes on your behalf, and a UI that finally looks intentional at 2pm and at 2am. https://neeos.ai/blog/a-sky-thats-actually-the-sky https://neeos.ai/blog/a-sky-thats-actually-the-sky Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Real moon and sun positions behind the home screen, Sign in with Apple, and the first three modules move in: Citadel, Odyssey, and Kin. https://neeos.ai/blog/day-zero-the-spine https://neeos.ai/blog/day-zero-the-spine Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400 The first commit. A backend framework, a tool-scoped brain, and the one decision everything else follows from: the AI never gets to invent a fact.