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things i write about building, shipping, and screwing up.
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i learned cables before i learned clouds
two years on a hardware and networking course, then six years of devops. the order turned out to matter more than the course did.
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i wake up at 4pm
five years of working a us clock from india. what it pays for, and what it quietly costs.
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105 projects and one number i will not risk
a 100% job success score changes what work you say yes to. mostly for the better, sometimes not.
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the most valuable thing i do is delete things
cutting an aws bill is not clever architecture. it is finding what nobody turned off, and knowing what the floor of your bill actually is.
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i launched on product hunt, then found everything wrong with it
mypage.cc went live. two weeks later i audited my own product and wrote down every hole.
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i built an app that fines me for my own screen time
screenfine takes your money when you go over your limit, and makes you do pushups in front of a camera to get it back.
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i published eight npm packages nobody asked for
envguard started because a deploy failed at 2am over one missing environment variable. it grew into a cli, a github action and a vs code extension.
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my own robots.txt was the problem
impressions dropped on a site i had just launched. i went looking for an algorithm and found a file i wrote myself.
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a launch is a spike, not a channel
one product hunt launch, one daily winner on another platform, and the honest thing to say about what both of them produced.
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my clients pay for my products
no runway, no savings to burn, no quitting to build full time. what an agency actually does to the kind of product you can make.
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the boring legal half of shipping a product
vat, consent banners, refund windows, a privacy policy that is not a template. none of it is fun and all of it is load bearing.
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six years freelance, then a form
what actually changes when you stop being a freelancer with clients and become a company with the same clients.
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two bugs that made a working rag system look stupid
nothing crashed. the answers just got worse. one bug was in my parser, the other was in a firewall rule i did not write.