RTL Journal

A development journal, not a blog.

Design decisions, architecture notes, and lessons learned while building RTL's projects.

Journal entries

Development notes

Building RTLMusic: fixing a large Compose merge

Notes on resolving Compose library version mismatches, reorderable-queue bugs, and lyrics-fetching issues while merging RTLMusic's codebase forward.

Not yet published

Architecture

Building RTLM: starting a second music project

Why RTLM exists as its own project rather than a feature of RTLMusic, and what that separation means for how each one is built.

Draft — not yet published

Full entries for these notes aren't published yet — check back, or follow the roadmap for what's next.