https://n-so.com/blog Blog posts from Nouvelles Solutions - Building amazing apps with React, Swift, and AI en-us Thu, 03 Sep 2026 23:37:01 GMT https://n-so.com/blog/sqliteui https://n-so.com/blog/sqliteui Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT How I built sqliteui.netlify.app — a browser-only SQLite viewer with a hand-rolled Sugiyama ERD layout engine, Peter Coad domain color classification, relationship inference for Core Data stores, and a UI view that turns foreign keys into a navigable application. No backend, no upload; the file never leaves your machine. https://n-so.com/blog/haveiread https://n-so.com/blog/haveiread Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT How I built haveiread.app on Convex — a minimalist reading tracker for people with libraries scattered across Kindle, Kobo, Libby, and paper. Bookmarklets that read your Kindle library in place, parsing the Kobo's SQLite database directly in the browser, and a dedupe key that unifies it all. https://n-so.com/blog/capvera-convex https://n-so.com/blog/capvera-convex Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT How I ported the SwiftUI Capvera real-estate portfolio app to a web application on Convex — multi-provider AI extraction, batch management with workpools, dynamic schema-driven UIs, web-grounded market intelligence, and a Resend inbox per user. https://n-so.com/blog/mermaid-viewer-1.7 https://n-so.com/blog/mermaid-viewer-1.7 Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT MermaidViewer 1.7 introduces a visual diagram editor for building flowcharts and sequence diagrams by clicking, macOS Quick Look integration, and in-place markdown file editing. https://n-so.com/blog/mermaid-viewer-whats-new https://n-so.com/blog/mermaid-viewer-whats-new Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT MermaidViewer grows from a scrappy flowchart experiment into a full-fledged native diagramming app — with 17 diagram types, a theme studio, hand-drawn rendering, QuickLook, and an AI-powered visual comparison pipeline. https://n-so.com/blog/send-to-ai https://n-so.com/blog/send-to-ai Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT An early look at SendToAI—a SwiftUI app that lets you run AI-powered actions across Apple Intelligence, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude with a single tap. Still a proof of concept, but the architecture is taking shape. https://n-so.com/blog/gitsanity https://n-so.com/blog/gitsanity Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT How I built a native macOS Git analytics dashboard with DuckDB, star schemas, and parallel indexing — entirely using OpenAI Codex for Mac in just four days https://n-so.com/blog/dmg-maker https://n-so.com/blog/dmg-maker Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT How I built a SwiftUI app that turns the mundane task of DMG creation into a delightful visual experience with drag-and-drop simplicity, AI-powered backgrounds, and pixel-perfect previews. https://n-so.com/blog/doc-iq https://n-so.com/blog/doc-iq Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT A technical deep dive into building DocIQ, a macOS document intelligence engine that extracts structured data from PDFs across multiple industries—evolved from Capvera and built entirely with Claude Opus 4.5 https://n-so.com/blog/capvera https://n-so.com/blog/capvera Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT A technical deep dive into building Capvera, an iPad-native real estate portfolio management app created with Claude Opus 4.5 in Cursor IDE—from SwiftData modeling to macOS demo deployment https://n-so.com/blog/mermaid-viewer https://n-so.com/blog/mermaid-viewer Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Building a native macOS Mermaid diagram viewer by rewriting the entire MermaidJS rendering engine in Swift. Early preview of an ambitious project that brings native performance to diagram creation. https://n-so.com/blog/sqlite-erd-viewer https://n-so.com/blog/sqlite-erd-viewer Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT A deep dive into building SQLite ERD Viewer, a native macOS app that transforms SQLite database files into interactive, color-coded Entity-Relationship Diagrams using Swift and SwiftUI https://n-so.com/blog/folder-analyzer https://n-so.com/blog/folder-analyzer Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT A deep dive into building Folder Analyzer, a native macOS app that scans millions of files and visualizes disk usage with interactive treemaps, all powered by Swift concurrency https://n-so.com/blog/webstage-app https://n-so.com/blog/webstage-app Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT How I built WebStage—an Electron app that transforms your Mac into a powerful backstage controller for managing multiple web views across displays, complete with Chrome TV and iOS remote apps https://n-so.com/blog/building-markview-video https://n-so.com/blog/building-markview-video Sun, 14 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT Watch the full development journey of MarkView.app—a terminal-styled Markdown presentation tool—built using Bolt.new with 108 AI prompts https://n-so.com/blog/making-ai-rename-mac-app-with-ai https://n-so.com/blog/making-ai-rename-mac-app-with-ai Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Can you build a native macOS app without being a Swift expert and without coding? The story of creating AI Rename using AI assistance https://n-so.com/blog/markview.app https://n-so.com/blog/markview.app Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT How I built a complete markdown presentation viewer using Bolt.new, from initial prompt to production-ready app in just 90 minutes https://n-so.com/blog/surge.sh https://n-so.com/blog/surge.sh Sun, 10 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT Exploring how Surge.sh is used for deploying static websites, with real examples from n-so.com https://n-so.com/blog/website-evolution https://n-so.com/blog/website-evolution Sat, 09 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT A journey from complex Next.js setups to a streamlined React application https://n-so.com/blog/hello-world https://n-so.com/blog/hello-world Fri, 08 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT My first blog post