System Deployment: Unblended is Live (and I Can't Watch You Use It)

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Tools in the toolbox mean you are more prepared

Some projects start because you can't find your drill. This one started because I couldn't find my calm.

If you've never heard of Internal Family Systems, the elevator pitch is that your mind is less "one tidy person" and more "a committee, some of whom have strong opinions." There's a simple set of steps for getting a little room when one committee member grabs the wheel. The problem: the exact moment you need those steps is the exact moment your brain refuses to produce them. I know. I've tried.

So I built Unblended: six questions, a few minutes, on whatever screen is in front of you. It walks you through, keeps a journal, and sends nothing anywhere. No account. No server. No AI. The backend architecture diagram is a blank page, and I have never been prouder of less infrastructure.

(Twenty years of enterprise IT, and my proudest deployment is a folder of static files. Growth?)

It's been quietly living on a corner of my personal domain, and some kind strangers on Reddit have already made it better — clearer wording here, friendlier export timestamps there. As of this week it has a real home: unblended.org. Old links redirect, and nothing you've saved goes anywhere, because — see above — there is nowhere for it to go.

It's free, it's open source (AGPL, so it stays that way), and it deliberately stays in the shallow end of the pool: a practice aid, not therapy. If it helps, tell me. If it's confusing, tell me louder — GitHub issues is the front desk.

Go get some room: unblended.org