— little notes from a little shop —
Not the app-store changelog — my own thoughts on where MyDays X is headed, what I've learned from you, and the odd little interview about why I keep building this.
All that you are
A line from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds about being loved exactly as you are, and the harder half of it: doing the same for yourself.
“Remember the very words that sealed my love for you: “I accept you for who you are. All that you are.” If only you could do the same for yourself.”
Indistinguishable from magic
A sentence by Arthur C. Clarke that I met in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, and why I think it is worth noticing the magic before it becomes normal.
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
The Mountain Method: A Ridiculous (Untested) Way to Quit Smoking
A theory with zero scientific backing and a decent chance of working anyway: buy 90 days of cigarettes at once, stack them in your room, and watch what happens to your motivation.
“A pack a day never looks like much. Ninety days of it, sitting in a pile in your bedroom, looks like a problem.”
What our food lost, and what your cycle needs
Are vegetables really less nutritious than 50 years ago? What a period costs in iron, where women actually stand, and what the trials say about PMS supplements — with 35 sources.
“Test, don't guess. A blood test costs less than a month of pills you might not need.”
Not a Mirror. A Follow-Up.
How talking to a model actually works — and why it can feel like empathy, loyalty, or a knife.
“Flattery and prosecution are not two moralities. They are two completions.”
Eight looks, one little app — you pick
I made eight completely different store looks for MyDays X — from watercolor flowers to a volcano at dusk and a lighthouse. Vote for your favourite, the bars update live.
“PMS: delayed. Chocolate: priority boarding.”
Fudgy brownies, just right
Someone asked what I do when I'm not building this app. Mostly: I cook. So here's my brownie recipe — because a calendar alone never rescued a bad day.
“Soft and squeezy in the middle, a thin crackly crust on top. Not hard, not raw.”
Sixty seconds. That's the whole thing.
The simplest exercise I know, and possibly the most powerful. It takes one minute and you need nothing at all.
“One minute, chosen on purpose. It's worth nothing. It changes everything.”
The Naked Hour (you keep your clothes on)
One hour of doing nothing on purpose. No scrolling, no mantras, no closed eyes. Just being in the room. It sounds like nothing. It isn't.
“The hardest work is going from hard work to no work.”
Five women told me the same thing. Ouch.
“Too busy. Too many buttons.” They were right — here's what you're getting because they said it.
“Five women, same week, same complaint. That is not a coincidence — that is a spec.”
The dropdown that stopped at 2025
A paying user couldn't log her contraception because a year dropdown ended at 2025. That one message told me everything I needed to know.
“A dropdown that stopped at 2025 told me it was time to start over.”
From Christian · MyDays X · one person, since 2008