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  • Shipping product Jul 5, 2026

    I spent a year building AI features and shipped nothing

    What over-engineering burnout actually looks like from the inside, and the ordering mistake that caused it.

  • Shipping product Jul 2, 2026

    A whole tool, between 10pm and 1am

    The best thing about this era isn't the big rewrites. It's how cheap it got to scratch a small itch.

  • Shipping product Jun 24, 2026

    The interview I won by not writing code

    Everyone reached for a date library. I asked what the user actually needed and answered it with plain integers.

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