https://bytortuga.com/articles/ Articles on AI tools, product design, and go-to-market for small teams shipping fast. From the builders behind Tortuga. en Sun, 18 Oct 2026 19:00:00 GMT https://bytortuga.com/imgTortugaMarkLG.png https://bytortuga.com/articles/ https://bytortuga.com/articles/zaplaunch-run-it-on-my-phone/ https://bytortuga.com/articles/zaplaunch-run-it-on-my-phone/ zaplaunch is now open source under MIT. It's the launcher our coding agents use to open our iOS apps on our phones after every change. Sun, 18 Oct 2026 19:00:00 GMT Josh Grenon AI-Native Engineering https://bytortuga.com/articles/how-we-fixed-claude-codes-truncation-problem/ https://bytortuga.com/articles/how-we-fixed-claude-codes-truncation-problem/ Claude Code silently truncates MCP outputs past ten lines. Here's the fix we built, why markdown tables are the answer, and why we're giving it away. Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Josh Grenon Building Your Own Apps https://bytortuga.com/articles/comparing-models-the-reference-photo-test/ https://bytortuga.com/articles/comparing-models-the-reference-photo-test/ We tested seven AI image generation models on one specific task: turning app screenshots into marketing-ready mockup photos. Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Patrick Lewis Evaluating AI Models and Tools https://bytortuga.com/articles/the-designers-advantage-when-building-with-ai/ https://bytortuga.com/articles/the-designers-advantage-when-building-with-ai/ Design skills are the advantage in AI-native building. Designers bring the user focus, precise communication, and ownership that pure developers miss. Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Patrick Lewis AI-Native Design https://bytortuga.com/articles/how-the-figma-loop-collapsed/ https://bytortuga.com/articles/how-the-figma-loop-collapsed/ A year ago I lived inside Figma. Now I spend 70% of my day in the terminal. Here's how the shift happened and what I still use design tools for. Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Patrick Lewis AI-Native Design https://bytortuga.com/articles/from-react-to-astro-with-claude/ https://bytortuga.com/articles/from-react-to-astro-with-claude/ We migrated our entire site from React to Astro in a single sitting. The hard part wasn't the migration. It was admitting the old setup was wrong. Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Patrick Lewis Evaluating AI Models and Tools https://bytortuga.com/articles/you-need-influence-not-influencers/ https://bytortuga.com/articles/you-need-influence-not-influencers/ We built an AI actor that hit 1M views in a month, then we built the tool that makes them. Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Patrick Lewis Building Your Own Apps https://bytortuga.com/articles/good-enough-design-with-AI/ https://bytortuga.com/articles/good-enough-design-with-AI/ You've been letting go of your designs your entire career. The difference now is you can finally own what ships. Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Patrick Lewis Building Your Own Apps