What's new — mid-2026
Every so often we’ll stop, look up from the workbench, and tell you what flove has been up to. This is the first of those — a devlog, though really it’s just flove thinking out loud in public.
If there’s one thread running through everything below, it’s this: most of the internet is built to hold onto you — your attention, your data, your habit of coming back. flove is quietly trying the opposite. The big moves this stretch were all about making flove something you can simply have and keep — on your own device, working whether or not the network (or we) are around. Less a service that keeps you; more a thing you own. Here’s what that looked like in practice.
flove goes local and offline
The biggest shift: flove is now installable and works with no connection. A service worker precaches the whole runnable site, so once you’ve visited, every app opens offline. Pages load network-first — online you always get the latest, offline flove keeps running from cache instead of breaking. “Go local” also became a real package you can run with no server: per-OS launchers that serve flove on localhost and open it, a mobile page that opens the offline copy, and an Android build. A copy of flove should feel like an app you own, not a service you depend on.
Standards got a backbone
The shared standards that keep the apps feeling like one family — the design contract, the canonical vocabulary, the onboarding, the summary-and-export contract — took a real step forward this stretch. They now live, homogenized and public, on a single page: flove’s standards. It’s the connective tissue of flove, and where a lot of the recent care went.
A big tidy-up
Under the surface, a lot got cleaner: the project root was reorganised, the pieces regrouped, and every behind-the-scenes document moved into a single making-of area — kept out of the offline download so the package stays lean. And — you’re reading part of it — this blog went up, with its shelves for Main, Tech, and Theory.
Until the next one
So that’s mid-2026: a slower internet, stubbornly refusing to be in a hurry, built by one very determined human and one alarmingly patient robot. If you’ve somehow read this far, congratulations — you’re exactly the kind of person flove is for. Come poke around, install it, break something, and tell us what you’d relate differently. We’ll be right here, going slow on purpose.
See you in the next one. 👋
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