technologist. creative. building in the open.
books, apps, and content from someone who makes the thing, not just talks about it.
I'm Scott Fegette.
I've spent two decades building product at Adobe, Macromedia, and LinkedIn - mostly the unglamorous work of making complex tools feel obvious. These days that same instinct goes into books, apps, and content I make myself, in the open.
if you're building something and want a second set of eyes - product, AI strategy, or just a gut check - that's the work I still take on.
What I'm Writing
Long-form work on AI, creativity, and the worlds in between - published and in progress.
Creative AI
Generative AI is, in essence, the purest form of design thinking - it rewards those who can clearly articulate intent. This book is your guide to thinking, directing, and building in that new paradigm.
Holdout Springs
Holden Springs, Colorado has no feeds, no internet, no algorithms, no AI, and a waiting list to get in. Sloane Ashworth came home to get sober in the one place the online world couldn't find her - but found the quiet she was counting on had a sound of its own.
Instance
Trev Riordan reviews other people's digital lives for a living, but can't seem to get anyone to notice his own. So he spins up an instance - the kind of small, disposable AI agent everyone starts and forgets - and asks it to make him someone worth knowing. The only problem? It works too well.
The Frequency of Dust
On the colony world of Trilon-C, an electromagnetic shield called the Veil is the sound of safety itself - until a heavy-rig maintainer and a signals analyst dig up the courier ship that vanished the night it switched on. Its final transmission tells them what the Veil was really built to hold in. The first draft is complete and in revision; the opening chapters are up to read.
The Other Thing I Do
Thirty-five years of playing, recording, and touring - the music side of my practice.
What I'm Building
Small, focused apps for Apple platforms. No subscriptions, no bloat.
Record anything. Instantly.
Lightweight macOS menubar webcam and audio recorder with a built-in teleprompter. Free and open source.
Apple Intelligence for your menubar.
On-device AI via Apple Intelligence - no API keys, no cloud, no Ollama. One keystroke away, always private.
Build, tweak and reharmonize chord progressions.
Construct chords and progressions manually or from recorded audio. Substitute and reharmonize, export MIDI to Logic Pro - with an Apple Watch recording companion and iCloud sync across all devices.
the studio
Let's Connect
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