We’re getting Lyric ready for its first release. I’m currently working on a detailed tutorial for the language that’s geared toward beginner programmers. We’ll continue updating Lyric after it’s released, but this should be something people can genuinely get started with right away.
Our bug backlog for Novi is growing, and we’re finding more issues the more we use it. It’s still very early in development, so this is expected at this stage, but it’s good to see real usage uncovering real problems.
We also have a Chrome accessibility extension under review in the Chrome Web Store, and we’re hoping to have our first published Chrome extension soon. This one is very basic: it requires you to hold Control to bring up the context menu on most pages. I’m surprised by how often I randomly right-click and accidentally trigger the context menu, and this has helped me a lot already.
Thrifty Tom is next in line and will be developed alongside Novi once we have a stable Lyric release. The idea is simple: it will replace a Google Sheets setup I currently use to track daily spending and savings goals. It’s intentionally minimal and something I plan to use myself.
Auto has been doing a solid job fixing bugs in Novi, and we’ll continue using Cursor alongside our Novi + Claude Code environment. We did run out of Claude tokens today and had to wait a few hours for usage to reset, but our weekly token limits are still in good shape.
Beyond that, we’re looking forward to starting a small project to learn Rust (likely Project IRIS) and getting back to work on MikoPoker. MikoPoker was actually our first project at MiraNova and predates the studio’s founding by a short period. Lyric was our second project.
One last thing I want to be clear about: while we do use AI heavily to develop our software, we are not currently implementing AI features in our products. We’re not embedding an agent in Novi at this time, and Lyric does not have any native AI capabilities. I just wanted to set that expectation clearly.
Thanks for following along as we continue the journey.
— Michael (Aeonath)