https://xeve.io/blog How Xeve's apps work, how we built them, and what we learn shipping them. https://xeve.io/blog/how-drivestream-handles-rest-stops-battery https://xeve.io/blog/how-drivestream-handles-rest-stops-battery Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT DriveStream Three real-world prompts that made DriveStream pause cleanly for breaks, hand group-trip control to the leader, and stop using location between drives. https://xeve.io/blog/old-iphone-as-baby-monitor https://xeve.io/blog/old-iphone-as-baby-monitor Tue, 10 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT Cribbit Yes. Cribbit turns any iPhone or iPad running iOS 17 or later into a nursery camera. Here's what it needs and what to expect. https://xeve.io/blog/how-accurate-is-automatic-time-tracking https://xeve.io/blog/how-accurate-is-automatic-time-tracking Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT Orma App-level tracking is precise about which app had focus. Coding time needs a different approach. What each layer measures and where it falls short. https://xeve.io/blog/gobbl-meeting-brief-mac https://xeve.io/blog/gobbl-meeting-brief-mac Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT Gobbl Gobbl sends a summary of each upcoming meeting to your Mac notch 10 minutes before it starts. Here's how the briefs, morning overview and plain-English reminders work. https://xeve.io/blog/google-maps-road-trip-convoy https://xeve.io/blog/google-maps-road-trip-convoy Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT DriveStream Google Maps handles single-car navigation well. For a convoy that needs shared ETAs, fuel levels and the gap to the car ahead, here's what it can and can't do. https://xeve.io/blog/is-rogr-walkie-talkie-free https://xeve.io/blog/is-rogr-walkie-talkie-free Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT Rogr Talking, crews, finding friends and SOS are free in Rogr and always will be. Rogr Pro costs $4.99 once and adds four shell designs and two sound packs. https://xeve.io/blog/how-drivestream-drive-recording-got-built https://xeve.io/blog/how-drivestream-drive-recording-got-built Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT DriveStream Drive recording started as item five in a list. Here's how it became an automatic, crash-safe feature with animated replay. https://xeve.io/blog/baby-monitor-no-monthly-fee https://xeve.io/blog/baby-monitor-no-monthly-fee Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT Cribbit Cribbit turns two iPhones or iPads into a baby monitor with no subscription. Live video, audio and alerts are free; extras unlock with a one-time payment. https://xeve.io/blog/how-many-hours-did-i-work-today https://xeve.io/blog/how-many-hours-did-i-work-today Mon, 02 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT Orma Remote workers and developers often can't answer this without guessing. Automatic app tracking on Mac gives you an honest daily total with no timer to start. https://xeve.io/blog/how-we-built-rogr-haptic-controls https://xeve.io/blog/how-we-built-rogr-haptic-controls Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT Rogr After Rogr's transport worked, we spent a day making it feel physical: a needle VU meter, volume with detent haptics, and radio sounds that fire on every event. https://xeve.io/blog/free-up-disk-space-mac-developer https://xeve.io/blog/free-up-disk-space-mac-developer Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT TidyBug Xcode DerivedData, package caches, Docker VMs and old installers pile up silently. Here's how to find and clear each one safely. https://xeve.io/blog/road-trip-convoy-fuel-stops-drivestream https://xeve.io/blog/road-trip-convoy-fuel-stops-drivestream Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT DriveStream DriveStream shows every car's tank level and range on one shared map, so your convoy picks fuel stops together before anyone's gauge hits red. https://xeve.io/blog/rogr-airplane-mode https://xeve.io/blog/rogr-airplane-mode Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Rogr Rogr uses peer-to-peer Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, not the internet — it works in airplane mode as long as you re-enable those two radios in Control Centre. https://xeve.io/blog/how-rogr-find-uwb-direction-built https://xeve.io/blog/how-rogr-find-uwb-direction-built Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Rogr Building Rogr's Find feature meant debugging UWB readings that froze at 1.3 metres, then discovering that iOS suspends ranging the moment the other app goes to the background. https://xeve.io/blog/ipad-baby-monitor https://xeve.io/blog/ipad-baby-monitor Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Cribbit Yes — Cribbit works on iPhone and iPad, in any combination. An iPad in the nursery and an iPhone in your pocket is a practical setup many parents already have. https://xeve.io/blog/no-code-time-tracking-tools https://xeve.io/blog/no-code-time-tracking-tools Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Orma No-code time trackers log your day without timers. Here is what they capture automatically and what to look for. https://xeve.io/blog/iphone-peer-to-peer-connection-no-router https://xeve.io/blog/iphone-peer-to-peer-connection-no-router Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Cribbit Wi-Fi Aware is the same radio AirDrop uses — unlocking it in a third-party app meant getting an Apple entitlement. How Cribbit's direct pairing was built. https://xeve.io/blog/gobbl-file-shelf-convert-compress-remove-background-mac https://xeve.io/blog/gobbl-file-shelf-convert-compress-remove-background-mac Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Gobbl Drop a file into Gobbl's notch to convert images, compress PDFs, remove backgrounds and copy text — all on the device with no uploads. https://xeve.io/blog/drivestream-press-to-talk-walkie-talkie-road-trip https://xeve.io/blog/drivestream-press-to-talk-walkie-talkie-road-trip Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT DriveStream DriveStream includes press-to-talk for live group voice in a convoy. Live audio only, nothing recorded — here is what it does on a group drive. https://xeve.io/blog/rogr-open-channels-anyone-nearby https://xeve.io/blog/rogr-open-channels-anyone-nearby Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Rogr Rogr has sixteen public voice channels for anyone in range. Tune in, pick a callsign, and talk — no Wi-Fi, no internet, no account, no pairing needed. https://xeve.io/blog/road-rash-style-browser-game-claude-code https://xeve.io/blog/road-rash-style-browser-game-claude-code Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Xeve Road Rush is a 1990s-style motorbike brawler you can race with friends in a browser tab. How the road, the art and the phone controls came together with Claude Code. https://xeve.io/blog/baby-monitor-frozen-feed-cribbit-status https://xeve.io/blog/baby-monitor-frozen-feed-cribbit-status Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Cribbit A frozen nursery picture looks exactly like a sleeping baby. Cribbit monitors every frame's timestamp and tells you Live, Stalled or Lost instead. https://xeve.io/blog/unifi-udm-pro-drive-at-risk-storage-not-initialized https://xeve.io/blog/unifi-udm-pro-drive-at-risk-storage-not-initialized Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Xeve Why Reformat does nothing on a UDM Pro with an at-risk drive, how UniFi decides a drive is unusable, and the workaround we used, with its risks. https://xeve.io/blog/automated-time-tracker-mac-windows https://xeve.io/blog/automated-time-tracker-mac-windows Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Orma Orma tracks every app, window title and coding session automatically on macOS and Windows. Here is how it works on each platform and what the combined dashboard gives you. https://xeve.io/blog/mac-tracker-sync-stall-fix https://xeve.io/blog/mac-tracker-sync-stall-fix Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Orma The Mac tracker was running, the menu bar showed nothing wrong, and the dashboard was empty. One hung network request had wedged the sync queue. https://xeve.io/blog/mac-disk-space-developer-xcode-node-modules https://xeve.io/blog/mac-disk-space-developer-xcode-node-modules Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT TidyBug Xcode DerivedData, iOS device support files, node_modules, package caches and Docker VMs account for most developer disk bloat. TidyBug finds all of them safely. https://xeve.io/blog/drivestream-ranks-rookie-to-legend https://xeve.io/blog/drivestream-ranks-rookie-to-legend Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT DriveStream DriveStream tracks your total distance across every drive, awarding ranks from Rookie to Legend — set at 40,075 km, the circumference of the Earth. https://xeve.io/blog/rogr-sos-offline-crew-alert-gps https://xeve.io/blog/rogr-sos-offline-crew-alert-gps Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Rogr Hold the SOS button on Rogr and every phone in your crew sounds an alarm and sees your location — no internet, no server, peer-to-peer only. https://xeve.io/blog/how-orma-replaced-auth-layer-better-auth https://xeve.io/blog/how-orma-replaced-auth-layer-better-auth Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Orma A blank dashboard after login and a Google sign-in that went nowhere turned into a full migration to Better Auth — with three edge cases that only tests caught. https://xeve.io/blog/iphone-baby-monitor-setup-guide https://xeve.io/blog/iphone-baby-monitor-setup-guide Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Cribbit Setting up Cribbit takes about a minute: a six-character code, no account, and a spare iPhone as the nursery camera. Here's what to prepare before the first night. https://xeve.io/blog/automated-time-tracker-what-it-captures https://xeve.io/blog/automated-time-tracker-what-it-captures Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Orma Most automated time trackers only see which app is active. Here is what a full-stack tracker adds: coding time, GitHub, health, and 19 auto-computed correlations. https://xeve.io/blog/how-we-built-orma-public-api-mcp-server https://xeve.io/blog/how-we-built-orma-public-api-mcp-server Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Orma One prompt turned Orma from a private dashboard into an open-source platform with OAuth, eleven scopes, and a remote MCP server AI tools can use. https://xeve.io/blog/gobbl-dictation-offline-whisper-mac https://xeve.io/blog/gobbl-dictation-offline-whisper-mac Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Gobbl Gobbl transcribes speech on your Mac with Whisper, no account and no word cap. Three cleanup modes, with audio that never leaves your computer. https://xeve.io/blog/drivestream-multi-stop-group-road-trip https://xeve.io/blog/drivestream-multi-stop-group-road-trip Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT DriveStream DriveStream lets a convoy share one live map, a destination with multiple stops, and each car's fuel level — so your group arrives together. https://xeve.io/blog/how-we-shipped-gobbl-demo-mode-settings-auto-updates https://xeve.io/blog/how-we-shipped-gobbl-demo-mode-settings-auto-updates Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Gobbl The last stretch before Gobbl 0.1.0 went live: a macOS 14 settings window bug, a demo mode for real screenshots, and Sparkle auto-updates. https://xeve.io/blog/cribbit-travel-baby-monitor-hotel-room https://xeve.io/blog/cribbit-travel-baby-monitor-hotel-room Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Cribbit How Cribbit works in a hotel room or holiday let — two iPhones connect directly with no router, no hotel network, and no account. https://xeve.io/blog/how-to-track-coding-time https://xeve.io/blog/how-to-track-coding-time Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Orma Orma's VS Code extension and Claude Code hook capture active coding time by project, language and editor — no timers, no manual logging, no configuration. https://xeve.io/blog/gobbl-memory-screen-reading-accessibility https://xeve.io/blog/gobbl-memory-screen-reading-accessibility Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Gobbl Memory reads on-screen text through macOS Accessibility, not screenshots. Here's how it handles chat apps and secrets, and where the data lives. https://xeve.io/blog/find-duplicate-files-mac https://xeve.io/blog/find-duplicate-files-mac Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT TidyBug Duplicate photos, downloads and copied libraries fill your Mac's disk silently. Here's how TidyBug finds them—exact matches and similar photos—and removes them safely. https://xeve.io/blog/drivestream-carplay-convoy-navigation https://xeve.io/blog/drivestream-carplay-convoy-navigation Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT DriveStream DriveStream puts the whole convoy on your CarPlay display alongside turn-by-turn directions, so you can see the group without touching your phone.