Notes

Design notes and essays from building Recilic.

August 16, 2026

The mesh ships: lose any two, lose nothing

Every node's discovery thread died in the same second, and every backup kept reporting success. What shipped instead of a shrug.

August 4, 2026

One build flag, 20× faster

Mesh backup went from 1.2 to 23.8 MB/s. The clever protocol fixes helped; the flag that mattered was -O.

August 3, 2026

The first mesh is alive

Two Macs, one invite link, 61.9 GB flowing as encrypted shards — the mesh drew its first breath tonight, with screenshots.

August 2026

Recilic is live on the Mac App Store

0.1.0 ships the foundation: an encrypted vault where you choose, 4+2 erasure coding, immutable history, and rehearsed restores. Founding price $9.99.

July 2026

Why Recilic isn't a stranger network

Same stack as decentralized storage, minus the blockchain — because friendship is a better protocol than tokens.