I Shipped My First App, Introduced RelayByte, and Let Apple Tempt Me (Week 37, 2026)

The vibe

Proud, relieved, and already thinking about what comes next.

After the move, the internet mess, and the general chaos of the past couple of weeks, this week gave me a pretty big personal milestone: I released my first app.

That still feels a little strange to write. I have built plenty of tools and side projects over the years, but putting a native Mac app out into the world under my own name feels different. There is a lot more involved than getting the code to work, and I learned quite a bit about that part this week too.

Highlights

• 🚀 I officially released Trayage, my first native macOS app. Trayage helps you review the installers, likely duplicate downloads, older files, large files, and recent downloads that have collected in your Downloads folder. It does not automatically delete anything. You choose what to clean up, confirm the action, and Trayage moves those files to the system Trash.
• 🧪 Shipping the app was only part of the work. I spent a lot of time testing the direct download, purchase and license flow, update process, support pages, privacy details, and all the other pieces people should be able to trust when they buy an app. It is not the flashy side of a launch, but it matters just as much as the app itself.
• 🏷️ I also introduced RelayByte, the brand I will use for the independent apps I build. RelayByte gives the apps a shared home while still letting each one have its own identity. It is the brand behind the apps, but when you find them in the Mac App Store, the developer and seller name will still be Kyle Reddoch.
• 🎨 Trayage is the first RelayByte app, and StylePort is already in development and coming soon. StylePort is a privacy-first UserCSS manager built around giving Safari users more control over how the websites they visit look. There is still work to do, but I am excited about where it is going.
• 💻 The day-job side of things is still work. LOL. I am still working from home, though, and I am definitely not complaining about that.
• 🍎 The Apple event took over a decent part of my Mastodon feed this week. I spent the event bouncing between the iPhone 18 Pro and the iPhone Duo, joking about how much money Apple was about to take from me, and reacting to everything else along the way. My wife’s 18 Pro is secured. Now I am waiting for the Duo preorder for me.

What I posted

• I caught up on my weekly notes with A Fast Move, Internet Nightmares, and Getting Settled, covering the very fast move, our three-day wait for internet service, and the process of making the new place feel like home.
• I wrote about my hands-on time with OpenAI’s latest model in I Spent the Past Few Days With OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra. Here’s What It Means for Cybersecurity. The biggest change is not one benchmark. It is how long a capable agent can keep working through a problem, and what that persistence means for both attackers and defenders.
• In The N-central Exploits Are an MSP Vendor-Risk Test, I looked at the run of exploited N-able N-central vulnerabilities, what MSPs should do now, and why high-trust vendors deserve harder questions.
• Security Signal Weekly: September 5-11, 2026 covered exploited MikroTik, Windows, Chrome, and Cisco flaws, along with the other stories defenders and IT teams should have on their radar.
• I also published . This issue is about treating RMM platforms, firewalls, routers, and other management systems as part of the incident plan instead of assuming they will always be there to help with the response.
• On Mastodon, I shared the Trayage launch and introduced RelayByte. Those two posts made the week feel real in a way that quietly pushing another code update never could.

Worth sharing from Mastodon

• I boosted a useful Microsoft write-up shared by AA about passkey-themed social engineering leading to identity and cloud compromise. Passkeys can improve authentication, but attackers will keep aiming at the person and the surrounding recovery or enrollment flow.
• The Apple side of my feed was busy. MacRumors shared a hands-on look at the iPhone Duo, while The Verge compared the new Apple Watches with the previous generation.
• I also shared M.G. Siegler’s point that, for all the excitement around AI personal assistants, the defaults are what will matter for most people. That applies to privacy and security just as much as it does to whether the feature is actually useful.

This was one of those weeks where a lot of quiet work finally became something other people could see and use. Trayage is out, RelayByte has a real purpose, and StylePort is taking shape behind it.

There is still plenty to do, but I am letting myself enjoy this one for a minute. I shipped my first app. That is pretty cool.

✌️ That is it for this week. I hope you have a great week and remember to be kind to each other!