https://dzgapp.com/blog Byte-level measurements from real Macs, and the product decisions they changed. Written by Yukun Gao, the independent builder behind Mint, Alder, Reso, and Scene. en Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT dev@dzgapp.com (Yukun Gao) https://mint.dzgapp.com/build-journey/what-22-gb-of-agent-conversations-is-made-of/ https://mint.dzgapp.com/build-journey/what-22-gb-of-agent-conversations-is-made-of/ Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Yukun Gao Mint Measurement Every image in 1,231 Codex conversations fingerprinted. 92% of the duplicate screenshots sit in conversations used this week, so the age slider points at the wrong end; a fork depends on another file's byte offset; and the clever fix was the smallest. https://resoapp.xyz/build-journey/no-uncategorized-ten-doors https://resoapp.xyz/build-journey/no-uncategorized-ten-doors Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Yukun Gao Reso Product An “Other” bucket is not a fact about your notes. It is the system admitting it never decided. Ten stable doors, a closed-list classifier, a noise sink, and clusters that are allowed to emerge underneath. https://alder.dzgapp.com/blog/dictation-that-never-loses-your-words/ https://alder.dzgapp.com/blog/dictation-that-never-loses-your-words/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Yukun Gao Alder Reliability How Alder protects a spoken thought through silent microphones, interrupted sessions, and blocked fields. https://alder.dzgapp.com/blog/on-device-ai-model-delivery/ https://alder.dzgapp.com/blog/on-device-ai-model-delivery/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Yukun Gao Alder Engineering How large local models reach real Macs reliably, recover from interruption, and stay verifiable. https://alder.dzgapp.com/blog/why-alder-runs-multiple-speech-models/ https://alder.dzgapp.com/blog/why-alder-runs-multiple-speech-models/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Yukun Gao Alder Engineering No single local model wins every language, so Alder measures quality and routes each language quietly. https://mint.dzgapp.com/build-journey/the-junk-your-mac-wont-let-you-delete/ https://mint.dzgapp.com/build-journey/the-junk-your-mac-wont-let-you-delete/ Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Yukun Gao Mint Measurement A confident detector named 16.9 GB of abandoned iOS runtimes. They were the backing images of two live simulators. Every trap in the chain, measured on one Mac between August 19 and 21, 2026, with free space read before and after. https://mint.dzgapp.com/build-journey/agents-are-not-a-black-box/ https://mint.dzgapp.com/build-journey/agents-are-not-a-black-box/ Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT Yukun Gao Mint Measurement What coding agents leave on a developer's disk, measured with read-only scan hooks: a summary that photocopies screenshots, an archive that frees nothing, and how to read 14 GB without killing the machine. https://mint.dzgapp.com/build-journey/not-a-refrigerator/ https://mint.dzgapp.com/build-journey/not-a-refrigerator/ Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT Yukun Gao Mint Design A first-use test turned a proud, feature-heavy interface into something quieter. The user needed the result, not the gears. https://mint.dzgapp.com/build-journey/why-mint/ https://mint.dzgapp.com/build-journey/why-mint/ Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT Yukun Gao Mint Design Why a name that suggests care and renewal fit better than one that simply described cleanup. https://mint.dzgapp.com/build-journey/on-device-intelligence/ https://mint.dzgapp.com/build-journey/on-device-intelligence/ Thu, 12 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT Yukun Gao Mint Product The harder question was not how to classify files, but when Mint should act and when it should ask. https://mint.dzgapp.com/build-journey/from-electron-to-native/ https://mint.dzgapp.com/build-journey/from-electron-to-native/ Sun, 18 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT Yukun Gao Mint Engineering What Mint learned by moving from a fast cross-platform prototype to software designed around the Mac. https://mint.dzgapp.com/build-journey/the-mess-we-all-share/ https://mint.dzgapp.com/build-journey/the-mess-we-all-share/ Fri, 05 Dec 2025 12:00:00 GMT Yukun Gao Mint Motivation Different files, same pattern: digital clutter accumulates faster than most people can organize it.