Clientless Blog

Essays for the ideas that need room to breathe. The docs stay canonical; the blog explains why fixed apps are giving way to personal interfaces.

The App Store Is Dead

The provocative argument for why fixed apps give way to capabilities and personal interfaces.

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The OS After the App Store

Why the next operating system is a host for capabilities, personal interfaces, and ambient work.

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Hosts Everywhere

What WebHost, iOS widgets, macOS shells, and Windows shells should have in common.

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json-render Is the New App Medium

Why a UI stream is a better boundary than a client-owned component tree.

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The Clientless Thesis

The application is moving out of fixed clients and into user-composed personal interfaces.

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