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Notes on Gantt charts, native Mac development, and small-team project planning.

• Apr 30, 2026

  How to make a Gantt chart without a subscription

  A native, one-time-purchase alternative to the per-seat-per-month planning apps — and a walkthrough of what changed when I stopped paying $20/month for a chart I drew once.

• Apr 30, 2026

  Team capacity planning for small studios: the 5-person rule

  Why team-capacity planning at a 5-person studio fails the way it does — and a simple rule for fixing it without buying a $200/month resource-planning suite.

• Apr 30, 2026

  Why planning software costs too much (and what to do about it)

  The Gantt chart category sits in a strange place: a few hundred dollars upfront for a desktop suite, or fifteen-plus dollars per user, per month, forever. There's a sensible third option.